Ccfc1979
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"I believe you shouldn't bring down a man on the edge of the box. Evans is young but he should let Balotelli go through and see what he can do.
"I thought with the experience we've got - Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra - they would have defended more but we just kept attacking. Sometimes there has to be common sense about it. It was a bad day."
An unusually angry Thorn said after the game, “I’m not hanging the boys out to dry, but if we’re going to heap praise on them then they’ve got to expect the other side as well. We were so dominant in the first half that I could only see one result, so it was really disappointing the way we let the game drift away.
“People might say you’ve got to expect that with young teams, I’ve said it myself, but I’m starting to get a bit fed up with saying it. We need to get a bit tougher and it’s about time people started growing up.”
Thorn was asked if Bigirimana was upset by his first sending off, he curtly replied, “I’m past caring about things like that. It was a two-footed tackle so it’s a sending off.
I thought that as soon as I saw it and I don’t think the referee had any other option. There’s no malice in Gael, he’s not that way inclined, but those are the rules, you can’t do it.
“He let his man drop off him for the first goal as well and that cost us the game, so he’s not really had a good birthday. He’s young, he’s inexperienced, but he’s got to start learning fast.”
"I thought with the experience we've got - Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra - they would have defended more but we just kept attacking. Sometimes there has to be common sense about it. It was a bad day."
An unusually angry Thorn said after the game, “I’m not hanging the boys out to dry, but if we’re going to heap praise on them then they’ve got to expect the other side as well. We were so dominant in the first half that I could only see one result, so it was really disappointing the way we let the game drift away.
“People might say you’ve got to expect that with young teams, I’ve said it myself, but I’m starting to get a bit fed up with saying it. We need to get a bit tougher and it’s about time people started growing up.”
Thorn was asked if Bigirimana was upset by his first sending off, he curtly replied, “I’m past caring about things like that. It was a two-footed tackle so it’s a sending off.
I thought that as soon as I saw it and I don’t think the referee had any other option. There’s no malice in Gael, he’s not that way inclined, but those are the rules, you can’t do it.
“He let his man drop off him for the first goal as well and that cost us the game, so he’s not really had a good birthday. He’s young, he’s inexperienced, but he’s got to start learning fast.”