The silence on BBC when the equaliser went in!!! Murphy couldn’t find any words ... what a c..t
I had muted it cos murphy was so annoying, when we equalized I turned sound back on to listen to his pain. I thought the button hadnt worked cos it was silent for about ten fcking seconds.....at least we shut him up.
Thought Cheltenham were great, they approached the game with a brilliant attitude, they were aggresive, they made no secret of where their own strenghts lay and played for that, and they kept their shape. Couple that with a few individual performances and there you go, tough opposition.
Our first half was a bit meh, whereas they were "up for it" and seemed to bully us a bit, plus our fullbacks didnt affect the game at all. Cheltenham got their goal and I thought that was it as we had missed a couple of sitters, but cometh the hour, cometh the man. What a prospect Phil is, that combination of control,vision,dribbling ability, and a nose for goal is priceless. Shout out to the subs too, changed our performance, and along with Cheltenham tiring it was over when we equalized.
The lack of var seems like a loose cannon now somehow, relying on linos to get it right, if they had flagged wrongly on a couple of tight calls we might be out now.
Cheltenham were gracious in defeat too, class all round and a credit to their club. Didnt watch much post match but did the beeb mention our financial support for this game? it should have been mentioned as it shows us taking part in the comp in the "right spirit", something weve been accused of not doing recently.