Sean Thornton
I say a little prayer….
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That's right. Substitutions all get added on and I wasn't surprised when the '5' went up. There was an injury (Duffy, where the ref. forgot to make him leave the field). The main timewaster though was the ref. He was a fussy bastard, making free-kicks and throws perfect but missing obvious things. I think it was when Brooks got penalised for fouling their goalie and they took the free kick 20 yards further up the field. Also when Sharp was manhandled near the halfway line, he decided to give a 'bounce up' (can't remember when I last saw one of those). A better ref. would have told the Reading player not to contest it.
He made Reading re take a free kick for a moving ball and when they did the retake the ball was moving again and he was ten yards away.