Completely agree. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. Especially with the players Blackburn have. It was an away game at Brighton not Man Utd where co-incidently Blackburn won 3-2 last season by at least playing some football!!
There you go you sum it up in one hit. The fact is, after going 1 up Blackburn resorted to poor tactics. Don't get me wrong nothing with shutting up shop if thats what you need to do but considering the talent at Blackburn Rovers I figure they could have done a damn sight better than the shite...
The Hoskins injury was more like 4 mins. But you're right we wouldn't go 1 up away from home & start kicking lumps out the opposition & brazenly wasting time at every opportunity Gus would have them playing keep ball. Why do people think we'd resort to Blackburns tactics if we were in their...
Agreed you could see the quality in phases. They obviously weren't confident enough to beat us by playing football though hence the poor tackling, fouling & time wasting. If we'd taken our chances we'd have buried Blackburn long before they had a chance to show themselves up for the kind of play...
For a team of ex premier league players & big money signings have you ever seen a team come to the Amex with a shit game plan that involved time wasting, fouling and all the usual tricks that basically prevented football from being played.
It pays a massive compliment to Albion but Blackburn...