by Baggies69 »
26 Feb 2010 12:24
Baggies fan in peace here
From what I saw Mulumbu kicked the ball, it hit McAnuff, whether deliberate or not only Mulumbu can say. To me if kicking it he should have booted it in the air. McAnuff reacted they had a pushing match and MAnuff lashed out. A steward ran on the pitch to seperate them and got surrounded by your players and someone from your bench who ran their faster then Usain Bolt would have done and they started having a go at him. Other stewards came on to try to get the steward away and were subjected to pushing and shoving from your players. Someone tried to get to the linesman (I think McAnuff, not 100% sure) and a steward got in between him and was again surrounded by your players.
Perhaps the steward should have just stood there and let McAnuff carry on and get a longer ban ?
It seemed to calm down and your players went to your fans to celebrate. From the Youtube clip posted it looks like a couple of jobsworths stopped them, that is pathetic to be fair but some of your players and officials need to look at themselves over the whole incident and hold their hands up and admit they were in the wrong. For what happened outside it seems a couple of your players came out to the coach mouthing off at stewards who are always there guarding the coach after games and it got a bit verbal.
The stewards in the main did a good job despite heavy provocation. One or two may have got a bit heated as people do. Interesting someone has mentioned the black steward
well known to many of us, a Sunday League referee who is the same on a Sunday morning. That bloke is a 100% knobhead.