09-01-2021, 07:38 PM
(09-01-2021, 03:05 PM)Gerry Hatrick Wrote: Just seen the ridiculous spectacle of the Chorley v Derby "upset". What kind of a tournament is it when a team is forced to field a bunch of kids for the sake of fulfilling a fixture. Is that what football has become, an administrator's haven? This is not about Covid. If fixtures can't be played in the proper spirit of the game, they shouldn't be played, full stop. For Derby it represents a pointless afternoon while Chorley have been denied the credibility that a real upset would have brought. There's no romance just a box that's been dutifully ticked.
Not sure all the Derby players who have now made their first team debuts would regard it as a pointless afternoon ?
Not their coaches with them getting such an opportunity.
Derby were competitive in the game, and no-one would be saying a word if they had won.