My first viewing of Backhouse for a few years.. wasn’t very impressed. Chucking cards around like confetti towards the end and got a few too many restart decisions wrong. Deep into injury time was the first time I’ve seen the 8 second countdown in effect since August, but O’Donnell being a left footer had no chance of releasing the ball, so should have been a Derby free kick
Wasn’t his best performance. I think he fell for a few old tricks and a couple of free kicks that were given I felt should’ve been waved away. I felt most of the cards had to be given myself.
Penalising the derby keeper for 8 seconds was a bit harsh. I don’t think the Pompey players were far away enough from him during the countdown. Just as well Pompey didn’t score at the end because I think that would have been unjustified.