The red card offense is for denying a goal scoring opportunity, which he didn't (as they scored). So for it to be a yellow surely it would need to be a foul that deserves a yellow, and it wasn't. So why a card?
quite clearly ungentlemanly conduct at the very least. He tried to deny their player a goalcoring opportunity. Thankfully the ref played on and so that never surfaced.
but I was more disturbed by the treatment of their young full back Buxton. He was clearly hurt - snapped hammy or whatever - so for the whole ground to boo him off and give him the wanker chant for tearing/pulling a muscle seemed very weird. Obviously he wasn't faking it. Whatever happened to clapping off players who are obviously injured, or at least just ignore them and get on with the game.
I can't say what people saw from the TE or the Arkells. But from the DRS it was absolutely obvious his hamstring had twanged. I'm not sure how people three or four rows from me couldn't see it.
On the injury front although Clinton Morrison is a prize twat for giving it some after their goal, it was a nice touch by him and a couple of other Wendies to wish Smithy well when he was taken off.
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The game itself I though was absorbing. We started off well. Got or goal. Then started to sit back as Wednesday took over a bit. Smith bailed Morrison's weak challenge out. Then they scored. Then they scored again but to me Morrison made a slight play for the ball while standing in front of the keeper. In my book you don't need to touch the ball to be interfering. Thankfully this set of officials think the same, but as is the problem with todays offside law next weeks officials may let it go.
Second half Wednesday started on top as we looked to be on the back foot again. No sooner had I mentioned this we upped it again and took over, looking reasonably comfortable and getting a goal, though Wednesday's piledriver that hit the bar was a tad fortunate for us,
As for individual performances I thought JPM and Caddis were immense and MOTM contenders. Morrison struggled in the first half but got better, his positioning worries me at times. Cuthbert had good one but looked a bit slow off the mar for their goal. Rose was OK
Douggie had a good game but Prutts was a mixed bag. Ritchie looked lively too.
Austin scored a cracker and could have had a hatrick.
Which leads to Perricard. Very mixed for me. One the plus side he seemed to hold the ball up well on occasion. On the downside he was slow releasing it when he did. He gives the team better shape the Dessovi. But his movement and pace is slightly behind continental drift. But most importantly for me he usually carries no goal threat whtsoever. I'm not even sure he brings Austin into the game much. But I'm not sure we have a striker who addresses all this anyway.
But he does his best so why boo him off?
