We're just missing chances - Sir Bobby

Last updated : 02 November 2003 By Martyn Elliott

Sir Bobby

"It wasn't quite Alan's day, but I never crib about penalties. He's his own master at the penalties.


"He's taken far more penalties than I have and had far more success, so he knows more about penalties than I do.


"Occasionally I speak to him about penalties, but I'll leave it to him to sort it all out. He feels worse than anybody in the club, so I understand that.


"There's no crib from me for people who miss penalties, except that I wish he hadn't. But it's part of the game and you have to put aside that disappointment. We know if he takes it, we win it.

"We're very disappointed, and more than that, I think justifiably well frustrated. We've had enough ball possession and chances in the last two games here in four days to have won four games, and we haven't won one.


"Our football is very good. Again we played nice football, we spread the play, we made chances, we dominated the game.


"We've just lost a match we should have just won, but there's nothing wrong with our football, nothing wrong with our enthusiasm, nothing wrong with our commitment, we're just missing chances."



David O’Leary


"I was hoping we could win, but I was delighted with the lads. I thought our goalkeeper played very well.


"When you come to a ground like this where they're a very attacking- minded team, you need your defence to be solid, and I thought Dion was immense.


"You need your goalkeeper to do well and you're going to be asked questions and he answered them very well.


"It was very disappointing to lose the goal right on half-time, but we came back out in the second half and we dug in.


"I'm disappointed with the sending-off because I thought the referee got that totally wrong.


"I thought he should have booked him for the challenge he did send him off for, but I thought he booked the wrong player for the first yellow card, got it totally wrong.


"I had a good view of it. It was about five yards away and he's gone into the fracas and he's picked the wrong player out."