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Warnock pleased to get the respect from 'good humoured' Hatters fans but felt Boro were on the wrong end of two refereeing decisions
Boro chief felt visitors should have been victorious at Kenilworth Road
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Warnock pleased to get the respect from 'good humoured' Hatters fans but felt Boro were on the wrong end of two refereeing decisions
Boro chief felt visitors should have been victorious at Kenilworth Road
www.lutontoday.co.uk
Warnock pleased to get the respect from 'good humoured' Hatters fans but felt Boro were on the wrong end of two refereeing decisions
Boro chief felt visitors should have been victorious at Kenilworth Road
Forgive me if Im being over-critical, or at risk of verging on being personal, but when I first read this it appeared that the journalist may have sugar-coated the apparent praise heaped on Hatters fans by Neil Warnock. Havinging read it two or three times more, I get a picture of a game where poor refereeing decisions, a denied penalty or two, not getting the "rub of the green" and being too "nice" and we would have won the game at a canter?!
But read a little further and we werent "physical" enough, didnt have the right mentality and couldnt defend or play good football?! Well hit my ars with a feather! If only the players knew how crap they were, how crap the ref and the linesmen were,.........................we would be Real Madrid!
Just where is there any acceptance of responsibility or even faint acknowledgement that the performance may have been something to do with "tactics" and "management"? Its happened too many times already to blame individual errors - or a collective cok-up. True - some players could turn up with one leg missing and still get picked - but whose responsibility is that?
Have I been looking through a long lense and seen a different season, or is it that Management [all of them - coaches - staff-etc] are covering themselves in cam-cream and under cammo-nets to hide and fade into the back-ground. Im sure Im not the only one, but this is bewildering for me. The tin hat and trench coat with over-shoes an body - armour are already prepared for West Brom. ;@((
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Middlesbrough manager Neil Warnock hailed the 'good humoured' Luton supporters for their reaction to his milestone match at Kenilworth Road last night, although felt his side should have been walking away with the three points.
After going down to a 3-1 defeat, and seeing assistant Kevin Blackwell, a former Town boss himself jeered off, the home supporters began by taunting Warnock has he headed for the tunnel.
It then quickly turned to rousing applause though, with the 72-year-old, who was taking his 1,602nd English Football League game, a new record, reciprocating the gesture, as speaking afterwards, Warnock said: “It (Kenilworth Road) is a good football ground, places like QPR, this, I love the atmosphere like that.
“I’ve come away, we've lost the game, three simple goals we've given away and yet it's a game I think we should have won so it's disappointing for me on two fronts.
"I think they (Luton fans) respect me.
"They've always given me stick here, most places do, and I always give them stick back if I can, so I don’t mind that all.
"There's not enough good humoured like that around the place and you saw the reception I got, probably because we lost though.
"We haven’t got that nastiness that they’ve got, that little bit of what you need in the Championship. We’re quite a nice team if I’m honest.
“Play decent football, should have won the game tonight but when you’ve got to be physical and you’ve got to defend and you’ve got to have that mentality, we haven’t got enough of that."
After seeing the visitors lead through Josh Coburn on 16 minutes, Warnock felt his side should have had a penalty when Isaiah Jones went over the challenge of Dan Potts in the area.
Replays showed the Boro attacker dangle his legs into the Town full back's to win the contact, with referee Tim Robinson rightly rejecting the appeals.
After the break and with Luton now 3-1 in front through quickfire goals from Sonny Bradley, Elijah Adebayo and Harry Cornick, Jones once again caused problems to the home defence, with Fred Onyedinma bringing him down for what looked like a spotkick, only for Robinson to rule the incident happened outside the box.
A frustrated Warnock added: "I think the linesman overruled the referee on Isaiah Jones.
“Then in the second half, I think it’s a penalty.
"He’s outside the box and he gives it which is an easy cop out really but he gives Isaiah advantage.
"The advantage takes you into the box and then he’s fouled, so it’s a penalty.
"But we didn’t seem to get any rub of the green tonight.
“The linesman over the far side who didn’t give the Isaiah Jones penalty, I don’t think he’s ever given us anything when I’ve seen him.
"I’ll not miss him when I retire.”
