Post by rossp on Jan 5, 2008 21:51:11 GMT -1
Liam said:
Jim said:
"I was absolutely shocked when the referee said he was sending me off," Liam told the Club website.
"The referee asked me if it was a two-footed tackle and I said no. He told me to calm down and gave me the impression that I might be booked at worse.
"I apologised. It was my first tackle and I just mistimed it by a fraction. I didn't catch the player as badly as it looked either.
"The referee was speaking to someone in his ear piece and said 'one footed and a yellow card' to whoever he was talking to.
"At that stage I was expecting to be booked. There was a delay and then he said 'sorry lad, I've got to send you off'.
"The referee asked me if it was a two-footed tackle and I said no. He told me to calm down and gave me the impression that I might be booked at worse.
"I apologised. It was my first tackle and I just mistimed it by a fraction. I didn't catch the player as badly as it looked either.
"The referee was speaking to someone in his ear piece and said 'one footed and a yellow card' to whoever he was talking to.
"At that stage I was expecting to be booked. There was a delay and then he said 'sorry lad, I've got to send you off'.
Jim said:
"I am not condoning it. He was a little bit late, but from an experienced referee, it was a caution.
"Liam is 19 years of age, but he has not got a malicious bone in his body. An experienced referee deals with it.
"I have asked the referee at half-time and he has told me he is a professional and he is 100% right. That is what we are dealing with."
Magilton says Trotter is very down: "The boy is inconsolable. He feels as if he has let everybody down, but he hasn't. He is a great lad and has done terrifically well for us.
"I think the referee had told him that he was getting booked. [Portsmouth coach] Joe Jordan was in the fourth official's ear telling him it was a sending off, a straight red, which did not really help the situation.
"But at the end of the day, if he has influenced an experience referee, then we really are in trouble."
"I would not appeal against him because he is a professional and is 100% right. God forgive me.
"Maybe he will go to Lourdes and repent, he may have a look at it. I doubt it.
"Liam is 19 years of age, but he has not got a malicious bone in his body. An experienced referee deals with it.
"I have asked the referee at half-time and he has told me he is a professional and he is 100% right. That is what we are dealing with."
Magilton says Trotter is very down: "The boy is inconsolable. He feels as if he has let everybody down, but he hasn't. He is a great lad and has done terrifically well for us.
"I think the referee had told him that he was getting booked. [Portsmouth coach] Joe Jordan was in the fourth official's ear telling him it was a sending off, a straight red, which did not really help the situation.
"But at the end of the day, if he has influenced an experience referee, then we really are in trouble."
"I would not appeal against him because he is a professional and is 100% right. God forgive me.
"Maybe he will go to Lourdes and repent, he may have a look at it. I doubt it.