It wasn't about today. Getting hammered by Accrington last Saturday sent us down, but you also can't do fuck all before Christmas and expect to pull away up the table in the new year. Ultimately our previous chairman deserves all the flack. He gave Adams a five year deal, ensured the continual churn of players with his one year contracts and sanctioned the signings of a raft of wingers and central defenders that never played.
Today was enjoyably mad. And as to that goal, well maybe Scunthorpe were aggrieved after an incident in the first half when one of their players went down in our box, though whether it was a penalty I couldn't say, but we broke away, ended up getting a corner with their man still down and tried to take it quickly with him still prostrate. What is certain is that Macey had been limping for a couple of minutes and had just struggled to claim a high ball. He certainly signalled that he wasn't fit to continue. He should have sat on the ball and not done anything though. I can accept Josh Morris not realising, thinking the keeper was rolling the ball to a non-existant left back and not believing his luck, but the reaction from his team mates was full-on. The keeper certainly rushed to join the celebrations and who can blame him after two of our muppets got in his face after our first goal (he clipped one round the ear which has gone unmentioned amongst everything). Some of them knew. Ultimately it took the wind out of Scunthorpe, they were giving it to us and that seemed to kill their momentum - Rory McArdle had been running them and yet seemed to just stop playing. We hit the post twice and for a couple of minutes the 4-goal swing to catch Wimbledon didn't seem so far fetched.
Today was enjoyably mad. And as to that goal, well maybe Scunthorpe were aggrieved after an incident in the first half when one of their players went down in our box, though whether it was a penalty I couldn't say, but we broke away, ended up getting a corner with their man still down and tried to take it quickly with him still prostrate. What is certain is that Macey had been limping for a couple of minutes and had just struggled to claim a high ball. He certainly signalled that he wasn't fit to continue. He should have sat on the ball and not done anything though. I can accept Josh Morris not realising, thinking the keeper was rolling the ball to a non-existant left back and not believing his luck, but the reaction from his team mates was full-on. The keeper certainly rushed to join the celebrations and who can blame him after two of our muppets got in his face after our first goal (he clipped one round the ear which has gone unmentioned amongst everything). Some of them knew. Ultimately it took the wind out of Scunthorpe, they were giving it to us and that seemed to kill their momentum - Rory McArdle had been running them and yet seemed to just stop playing. We hit the post twice and for a couple of minutes the 4-goal swing to catch Wimbledon didn't seem so far fetched.
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