Scunthorpe United lost both of their first-team goalkeepers today.
Both to broken arms and both in the first-half. The starting ‘keeper Sam Slocombe and was replaced after just eight minutes by Jamie Severn, who was then was hurt stopping Bristol City’s Matt Smith in a one-one-one.
Incredibly both players suffered broken arms and defender Andy Boyce was forced to go in goal for the Irons, however he couldn’t stop Jay Emmanuel-Thomas dispatching a penalty. Bristol won the game 2-0.
Speaking after the game, Scunthorpe manager Mark Robins said: ‘We’ve lost two goalkeepers in this game to the same injury – broken arms under a challenge from one of their players’.
‘I’m just massively disappointed and I’m disappointed for them because they’ve broken their arms’. I’m disappointed for the players because they were the better team on the day’.
‘And I’m disappointed with the decisions of the referee – or the non-decisions of the referee – in terms of a throw-in which wasn’t a throw-in to them for the first goal, and then for the second goal there was a handball in front of the dugout which should have been given’.
‘Everybody in the ground sees it and it doesn’t get given and I’m just extremely, bitterly disappointed because we were the best team on the day’.
Do you reckon he’s disappointed?
Hat-tip to BBC Sport & @ThomasCurran11.
