Ok, there were a fair chunk of substitutions and a couple of (quick) var checks. But how did the referee get 7 minutes in the second half and only 2 in the first. Suggests he thinks our timewasting was worse than theirs.
Is it still the case that each sub means an extra 30 seconds? If it is, you've got 5 mins there.
Each break. So still only 3.
I was fuming in the first half at that. There was a full on "drinks break" FFS at the 30 minutes mark (clearly orchestrated by McKenna for a quick tactics chat), and Ipswich were time wasting at every opportunity from the very first minute.
Every single time they got a corner, despite it being the same guy taking it every time, he didn't start walking over until one of his teammates had pretended to ask him, then he walked there slowly from the penalty spot.
There was one moment where one of their players went down after fouling us. Clutching his ankle. We decided to take the free kick and try to crack on, keep a little momentum. But as soon as we went to take it, the guy now starts grabbing his head and the referee of course pulled back our quick free kick.
I thought the referee got totally played by Ipswich today.
I've seen some social media posts from Ipswich fans laughing at the fact that their players do this every game, on about 30 and then 60 minutes.
Who was that annoying Ipswich that used to come on the old, old board?
I hope he’s fucking gutted.
I agree. On train home we were sat with a load of Ipswich fans. They were very easy to wind up and really didn't like me saying they were the dirtiest team I'd seen this season.
All our players were divers apparently and I was watching a different game.
'Did you still lose the game you were watching too?'
I didn't engage when could hear them saying 'that was weird what they sing at that start of each half, why do they sing a song about Scotland".
The one on 30 was blatant and easily took the two minutes added. Didn’t notice it in the second half.
Also didn’t notice that their captain didn’t wear the rainbow armband.
And all the people banging on about freedom of expression (which it is) are the same poppy Nazis who hate James McLean, but can’t see the irony.
"Religious beliefs" is not a free pass for being a bigoted piece of shit. If he won't wear it, give someone else the armband for the game. Captaincy is about setting an example.
"I'm against freedom and tolerance" is an interesting public stance to take.
The stance taken by most religions.
Not usually their selling point, even if true.
Talk me through the crusades.
