journolud
Well-Known Member
He was fuming......but without a great deal of justification in my opinion. There were 4 “controversial” decisions in the game and I would have made exactly the same calls Fatty Moss did on all 4 of them. The first was a yellow card for Accrington’s Barlaser right at the start of the game for a studs showing, scissor tackle lunge, that could easily have been a red, the second (and the most controversial) was another yellow for the same player, again leaping in with both feet off the floor, but which he turned into a block tackle rather than a studs up one, but unfortunately missed the ball, the third was for one of those ‘hook a foot round’, tackles from behind, which took the ball, but clipped the Derby player’s calf in the process and brought him down (call was a 50:50 one, and definitely not one which Moss could be justifiably pilloried for, but inevitably the resultant free kick led to a corner from which Derby then scored), and the fourth was a straight red for a Derby player for a professional foul, which Moss correctly called as having been made just outside the box.
The Accrington manager may have been disappointed, but honestly his tirade about Moss after the game was frankly pathetic
I've not seen the highlights so can't comment on the decisions but pretty sure he has ranted before about wanting to pack it all in because of some perceived injustice.