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I'll just say Sadlier and Posh and leave it at that
KR spent the whole time on the side pretending he didn’t know what was going on, Copps even had a few unkind words for him and when KR put out his hand to shake Copps declined and walked off. I’ve always thought KR had an arrogance about him and I saw it with both eyes today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I don’t blame them for not giving it back in this instance however had it been the other way round they would have wanted the ball back. Sportsmanship went out the window regardless of our nativity.Agree with the above though. We all booed it that much I think they realised. No-one really wanted to take it on and then the pot shot from a mile out.
Not too dissimilar to last season v Posh when their pkayer was down OFF the pitch. Their keeper thought he was on the pitch and kicked the ball out. We quite rightly took a quick throw in from which Sadlier scored.Now, if we put ball out if their player is down then yes, they should give ball back etc.
I'm with those who don't think they should give us it back to be honest. I was annoyed when we put it out, I felt it was naive of us because with it being the last ten minutes and Oxford chasing the game, why should they give us it back? We also dithered for a minute and then kicked it out in our own half, when we should have kicked it out high and long down the touchline.Watters was down holding his ankle, nowhere near the play. If it's a head injury fair enough, but I was irritated we put it out and would have been furious as an Oxford fan if we had given it back in that scenario.Nevermind anyway, they wasted the possession and we won the game in dogged fashion. So it didn't ultimately matter.
It is unusual for a team not to give it back but we have complained ourselves when opponents have kicked the ball when one of their players has been injured late in a game that they were winning and expected us to give it back.If the situation had been reversed we would have said we shouldn’t give the ball back.