Liverpool were also coasting in the game at Norwich a couple of weeks previously, conceded a goal and were a total mess for the last ten minutes but somehow managed to hang on.
Another one I can think of is Armagh against Sligo in 2002. Armagh were coasting at six points up with about 11 minutes left and Sligo got a man put off. Armagh proceeded to totally collapse. Sligo should have buried them but Dara McGarty chickened out of going for goal and fisted the ball over the bar to equalise with a gilt-edged one on one goal chance situation.
That appeared to be a collective abdication of responsibility type situation which it wasnāt tonight.
Liverpool would have been going in at half time tonight thinking they should have been at least 2-0 or possibly 3-0 up. It was a perfect storm really. The two penalties which should have been awarded as well as the disallowed goal, followed by conceding immediately after half-time to a stinker of a goal knocked the stuffing out of them psychologically.
Really no excuse for failing so completely to raise a gallop throughout the second half though.
If weād won I was planning to say weāre āeven better than the real thingā but I guess itās a case of āwe couldnāt beat the real thingā.
My initial thought on the first penalty claim was that it was a foul rather than a handball (which I only noticed on the replay).
I donāt think it was an intentional handball and wouldnāt have given it for that, but I did think it was a foul, which Neil Lennon has just backed up.
The penalty claim where yer man was stooping down was as stonewall as you can get.
Weāll win the league next season. No distractions, no excuses.