The thing that upsets me the most about Gareth Ainsworth is that we was not fortunate enough to see him laid prostate on the turf with his shin bone sticking out of his sock, and his career finished thanks to someone bigger and harder than him doing him in a tackle. The fact he never apologised is unforgivable.
When i think of Ainsworth, i always think back to the last game of 08/09 when we need a win and other results to go our way at Selhurst Park to seal a win, and Dane Whitehouse was stood directly behind me in the stand. He would have been about 38 then, and i reckon with his footballing ability, he could have gone on for a long long time, and as a pro he always looked after himself the right way, and i could see it in his eyes that he still thought he could have been out there.
The fact Ainsworth never apologised, and even bottled out of a couple visits to the Lane in the years that followed says it all about him. Coward.
As a footnote to all this, i seem to remember Chester City player Gary Bennett ending the career of young Wednesday defender Ian Knight, and copping a load of shit when he came to the Lane a couple of years later with Chester.