Latics Boss John Sheridan On The Game

Last updated : 18 August 2007 By Thetashkentterror
John Sheridan
Latics manager John Sheridan, who was speaking to Oldham's official website, talked about the match against United today. Sheridan complaining bitterly about a penalty given and one not given :


"I thought it was definitely a penalty, and so did everyone else apart from the officials. I don't understand them, the referee is looking at his linesman who is 70 yards away when he's only 15 yards away. He can see it, but I can't get involved with referees. I'm best off keeping my mouth shut.

"I don't think we deserved to lose, and we warranted something for our second-half performance. We created chances, took the game to them and dominated after the break to be fair. But the first half was poor, there wasn't a lot going on and unfortunately we gave a soft penalty away.

"The only chances they had were through us. We looked ordinary in the first half -- there was no quality on either side -- but we can't just stroll around. We have to work hard and take games to the opposition, and we did that after the break.

"I can take a few positives out of the second half, but I want leaders on the pitch, I hate losing, and I want to get through to the players that I want three, four or five leaders out there taking control of things.

"It's important we get back to winning. We could have got the draw today or even gone on to win, Craig (Davies) and Rico (Michael Ricketts) had chances and we had that definite penalty. But that's life, and we can bounce back with a home game now."