That was a combination of the frustration of their time wasting, bloke stood 2 yards from free kick in injury time, ref told him to move, went back two more yards, and so on, took 45 seconds to take. Minute later another lad follows the ball into the advertising hoardings, Hendrie goes to get the ball, he lies on it, then pick it up and throws it away, which Songo’o got booked for!
Add in we played so well at theirs, admittedly two great strikes from Hunter were their only two shots on target, we hit the bar, had a couple cleared off the line and Hladky made some great saves but we battered them and lost 2-1.
Then Letheren virtually throwing it in the net, and their admittedly generic pissing about running the clock down, then Cole and Carlos miss easy chances which should at least have hit the target and I was thinking we have lost twice to these and not played badly in either game!
So, when Carlos rammed it home, I did stand up and made a point of screaming at their bench who were “encouraging” their players to go down, waste time, kick it away, and it felt good.
Didn’t expect a winner mind, and Lord knows what the ref gave that free kick for, no fouls on anyone that we could see.
So all in all, when the Salford fans were complaining where 8 minutes came from, Hunter limping off slowly when subbed like he needed a zimmer, and all the other dark arts just for once didn’t pay off, hence my utter joy at beating them!