Yep, he stood on his head. Cant agree anymore with you, it happened right in front of me. It was a brain explosion of the highest order, luckily for MacDougall it was missed. Had it of happened in this day he would have been sent off from a video ref call.
I tend to think that in some way it was an accident, clearly he put his foot straight onto his head and he also clearly looked at him before he did it, i cant argue against that. In MacDougall's defence however he was not then or ever has he since been a dirty or spitfull player in any way. He is however prone to very strange reflex type movements and a strange kinda compulsion to do things on the football field that defies logic. Its hard to define it with him, he is certainly one of the stranger characters ive seen play RL. So i dont believe he got up with the intent of doing it, i think it happened before he knew wtf he was doing. Imo only.
Strange thing looking back at the game now was how heavily manly tried from the outset to force Manson into penalising Newcastle off the park. From Innes to Field to Toovey they didnt shutup the entire game trying to make out that in some way newcastle were cheating. Even Vautin himself made note of it during the call, which is strange considering his bias.
It all just goes into the legend that will be that game in years to come. Say anything you like about the quality of it, the drama was there as much as you would ever want to see in a game.
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