City Boss Admits 'Lucky Escape'!

Last updated : 04 October 2009 By Footy Mad - Editor

Gary Johnson: "I must admit, my heart was in my mouth at the time that Harewood went down.

"The lads felt there was a bit of contact but from our point of view, maybe he was starting to go down early, we don't know.

"But he [Salisbury] was very brave with forty-odd thousand people screaming for a penalty, anyway.

"We made that decision at 2.55pm. I was going to give my super motivational speech and I need them all smiling when I give that and Adriano Basso, was grimacing a little bit and doing a stretch on his groin.

"I knew today we needed people to be 100 per cent mentally and physically, and he didn't look either at the time.

"Dean Gerken only discovered he was playing five minutes before kick-off.

"We were able to bring Gerken in and on the day, I would have thought he was a candidate for man of the match."