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Sam Barrott is one of the very best I’ve seen in a long time

And a very decent game he had in the Walsall v Swindon game on Saturday, in potentially difficult circumstances, and just about held his team of officials together.

Pitch invasions and flares on the pitch after after the 3 Swindon goals, at least 2 objects thrown towards/very near the assistant on the side in front of the Swindon fans. That assistant's focus/confidence/bottle appeared to go from that point onwards as literally everything in that quarter of the pitch seemed to be flagged for Swindon.

The only real KMI  of note was the Swindon penalty, correctly given from seemingly well up with play following a run from the other half. On live viewing you could make a case for the Walsall defender receiving a red card as at the time I didnt think he was that near to the ball, however a yellow was certainly justifiable.

A couple of minor quibbles an assessor may well have noted would be the Swindon number 20 Williams received a yellow for persistent fouling when he probably should have had it for the first one, which was a blatant 'tactical' foul and for there to only be 2 mins injury time in the second half when there was 6 second half substitutions and a few injuries which led to those substitutions. At that point I assume they just wanted to make it off the pitch before being swamped in the last-day-of-the-season pitch invasion, as good natured as it was!

To be fair to Mr Barrott though, neither of those quibbles had any bearing on the actual result as the game had been won by half time!


Edited to fix the quote thingamajigga, bmb.