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This takes him into Massey who has, somewhat slowwittedly, not foreseen the event and is sent crashing to the ground. She gets up, laughs a little self-consciously and signals the goal-kick. McNaughton runs off to get back into position for the restart, without a backwards glance.

Some have seized on this as evidence of his nefarious intent. He clearly meant to hit her, they say, or why not apologise? Simple. What he is actually thinking at that time is, 'Stupid cow, get out of the way', just as if he had clattered into a male linesman, except substitute an unprintable expletive for 'cow'.

The idea he would stop to help her shows how out of touch some people are with the real world of competitive sport. Players leave team-mates stricken if the game is going on, let alone the officials

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Bristol City tomorrow, i'm not really fussed about the outcome of the game because it doesn't really mean much for us with us having nothing to play for. Aside from a Top 10 finish which looking at the goal difference, is between just us and Leicester. We're without Evans, Barmby, Rosenior, Mannone and Garcia through injury. Probably see something like this tomorrow...

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McShane Hobbs Gerrard Dawson
Simpson Chester Harper Koren
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