Such a pre-match talk is exactly as it should be. I would disappointed if it wasn't. So the one minute, by your own sub-conscious admission, makes no difference.
As for your last sentence, really, I think you should leave it now. It merely shows that you acknowledge my ability to articulate a...
I won't dismiss your point out of hand from an emotional point of view, thus I won't jump on an bandwagon of frustrated aggression. However, the request made was not binding so needs no objectionable response. Not one so public anyway.
But let's go to your sub-text which is lost to people's...
It would have been better to put 'Soz' at the start of the post and then considered what you were sorry for. Perhaps you may have reconsidered.
Folks show of humanity transcends any imagined extra prowess the opposition may take from it. My only personal 'soz' is that you fail to recognise...