POMPEY 0 SHEFF UTD 1

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Why is being the better team yet losing so frustrating?

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Pompidou Sheffield United 1 And of course, there's few things more sickening in football than being the better side for 89 minutes. And then they go and nick one. And that's exactly what happened today. And it's 10 seconds after the final whistle. And I feel like you feel, which is because you're a Pompey fan. Obviously, listen to Pompey sound. I feel like you feel. I feel that there's no justice in the universe. That's twice now in two games. We've been the better side and we've gone down. I think if you're the better side, you can muster something if you get a point. You're the better team, but at least you get on the bus or drive home in your magnificent four by four with a point under your belt, then that's not too bad.

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But to be the better side, And to go down 1-0, especially at the death. When people were looking at their watches and going, do you think we've got time for a quick one before we... Shall we go to the bar or... Hang on, they've scored. You should, but you're not expecting it. In the 89th minute, you're just not. And yet, I mean, if you look at so many games that are being played now, which extend into 98, 99, 100 minutes, there are a lot of goals scored right at the very death, after the 90-minute thing that we used to adhere to. And so we shouldn't be surprised, but we are. It comes as a shock to the system. that we edged everything. Well, we didn't edge it. Actually, the first half, we lauded it, didn't we?

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We actually lauded it over them in the first half. And, you know, we had opportunities. I'm not going to say we missed goals or that people failed to take opportunities. I'm just going to say that we created possibilities for the whole of the first half. They weren't at the races. Let's talk about that disallowed goal. Whatever it was, about 22 minutes. Colby Bishop managed to find himself in space with a ball at his feet. Not an open goal. He had to pick his spot, but he still knows how to pick his spot, and so he picked his spot, and it went. And the referee was already interested in... He seemed to me, in that moment, to be interested in making sure that this goal wouldn't be allowed because there's a possibility that something happened...

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involving a Pompey player doing something against the rules, and he hadn't seen it, and he wasn't sure what it was, but it might have been Adams, it might have been whoever. It might have been Bishop. So, yeah, let's call it, you know, let's call it a no-goal situation. And I'm afraid from time to time that happens with officials. And that's what we got. So, after the goal was disallowed, I noticed that John Massino went to the digital media that they've got on the touchline that shows them back incidents. And he was there for a long time because John Massino spends the whole of the game completely focused on the moment by moment of the ball on the pitch and what he wants his players to do. But for...

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a considerable period of time, he was hunched over the iPad or the laptop, whatever it was, that they use to get replays and also do analysis. And he was clearly, I think, saying, why was it disallowed? What was it disallowed for? And I think in his post-match interviews, he's going to say something along those lines. What was it disallowed for? A foul by Adams, who stretched for the ball, along with... Their guy who stretched for the ball.

What happened in the last minutes of the game that led to the loss?

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And it may have touched their guy. It may have touched our guy first. But to disallow the goal because of the 50-50-ness of that moment is what referees do. They always give the benefit of the doubt to the defending team. Always. Because if you allow a goal to happen and it turns out that there was an infringement, then you're going to get it in the neck. But it was disallowed and I think the players didn't know why it was disallowed. Adams, about 10, 5, 10 minutes later, there was a slight hold up in play and Adams went and accosted the referee and I think he said, why? Why was it disallowed? For what? Just tell me for what? Please, just so that I know. Go on, tell me. Was it me?