Not seen it mentioned anywhere else and it's baffling me as to why no one has - Fontaine smashes Cranie in the face with an elbow as the ball comes over. If the referee was paying attention, that was a red card. Incidentally, he went on to score the second. The free kick for their third was insanity as well, as it was McNulty who got legged up and for some reason conceded a free kick. Doesn't excuse the terrible defending, mind.
Said as much earlier. It was less clear at the match and the furore was over the challenge on Fozzie, but when you see it back it was every bit as bad as the challenge that got Smudge sent off last week, worse even because it was Cranie's cranium.
Mentioned on most of yesterday's match threads. Even the Bristol forums think they got away with that one.
I must have been reading the wrong threads. To be fair, there was only so much McNulty bashing I could read before I got bored, and that was pretty much the focus of most threads yesterday.
I was ranted at on the way out by some old Bristol bint claiming that the ref gave us everything.... Mental.
There was two fouls in the build up to the first goal and bafflingly the referee misses both of them. Foster is being climbed on by Elliott and Cranie receives an elbow to the face. The 3rd one looked like a foul on McNulty for me too. Shocking defending for all 5 goals though, and incredibly all from set pieces. I thought the summariser for the FL show was very biased too, I mean there's 2 blatant fouls for the first goal and he omits them, he also says that Perkins 'slips' under pressure for their disallowed goal, despite their attacker clearly having an arm around Perkins' neck.
Didn't see the Cranie incident but how on earth the ref missed Elliot climbinmg all over Foster to head the ball towards goal, I'll never know.
It looked like a sequence from a carry on film. Even the ref had a striking resemblance to Sid James..
