DrewC
Striker
This….What nobody appears to have mentioned is that the clearly planned and implemented Boro tactic throughout the first half was to take turns to block, pull, trip, obstruct etc Clark at every opportunity
We might have got a dozen free kicks, but not got another dozen we were due and how many Boro players were booked? I don’t remember one but there might have been someone I missed.
What all these Rugger Johnnies probably don’t get is that in football matches, at most levels of the game, there are verbals between Ref and players. I have even been sworn at by referees. If every time someone said what Neil is alleged to have commented games would end 5v6
Sending Neil off for complaining “that was a f***ing foul Ref” was completely disproportionate and actually ruined what could have been a good game
And it was also clear on a number of other occasions various Boro players were commenting directly to the Ref and not always on their own
Having said that we should have used better tactics when down to 10 men