16-12-2014, 22:48
I'm pleased Chris Turner has publicly shouldered the blame and apologised on behalf of the club to the fans. I'm impressed. Me saying that of Chris Turner, never was there such a day.
Though I agree with Dancing that the rules are ridiculous and their implementation by a blinkered set of jobsworths is pretty embarrassing, I don't agree that we should stick up two fingers in response.
MKD, who come in for an awful lot of criticism, have been brilliant throughout. We should go there on January 2nd and attempt the extraordinarily difficult task of repeating our victory. Our players should go out there and applaud the MKD players onto the pitch and go round the ground applauding their fans to show our club's appreciation of their stance.
It would be too easy to go out there and be mean-spirited and pretend we don't care about the FA Cup. But we'd simply make ourselves like managers who field weakened teams and the FA officials who run the competition with such an absence of feeling. We should do our best to make it a night to remember win or lose. As Cookie always says, it's time to show a bit of class.
And maybe a touch of class from us, on top that touch of class displayed by MKD might motivate the FA to adopt a similar attitude to the future administration of its competitions.
Though I agree with Dancing that the rules are ridiculous and their implementation by a blinkered set of jobsworths is pretty embarrassing, I don't agree that we should stick up two fingers in response.
MKD, who come in for an awful lot of criticism, have been brilliant throughout. We should go there on January 2nd and attempt the extraordinarily difficult task of repeating our victory. Our players should go out there and applaud the MKD players onto the pitch and go round the ground applauding their fans to show our club's appreciation of their stance.
It would be too easy to go out there and be mean-spirited and pretend we don't care about the FA Cup. But we'd simply make ourselves like managers who field weakened teams and the FA officials who run the competition with such an absence of feeling. We should do our best to make it a night to remember win or lose. As Cookie always says, it's time to show a bit of class.
And maybe a touch of class from us, on top that touch of class displayed by MKD might motivate the FA to adopt a similar attitude to the future administration of its competitions.