Nine players and both managers were booked by Blackpool referee Doughty during last night’s 1-1 draw at Valley Parade.
Additionally, the City manager stated that Sam Stubbs received a yellow card for being elbowed in the face.
Alexander claimed he was booked for sarcasm for his response during stoppage time to the yellow card given to Doncaster goalie Thimothee Lo-Tutala.
He remarked, “With all that time-wasting, it felt like the game went back fifteen years. The number of free kicks against us that were awarded for no reason at all—they just fell on the ball, and he awarded it.
Sam Stubbs, our centre half, received a booking after being elbowed in the face. It was astonishing.
The keeper wasted time at every opportunity, playing like one I played with twenty years ago. With fifteen seconds remaining, he is then booked—come on, guys.
Seeing what the keeper was doing, the fourth official declared that they would handle it.
Don’t let it be a booking in the last fifteen seconds,”I told him. It turned out to be a booking in the final fifteen seconds.
Before the half, Doughty had already booked McCann and six players. Alexander believed that by reaching into his pocket too soon, the referee had put himself in a difficult situation.
I felt the referee assigned himself an excessively difficult task, and the threshold for yellow cards was set very low.
With a few early ones, he established the tone for the remainder of the evening.
Alexander also thought that Doncaster was permitted to continuously slow down the game, despite the refereeing officials’ pledge to stop them this year.
At the beginning of the football season, we were given really strict instructions that included instances of how this would no longer happen in the game.
However, I hadn’t watched that game in a very long time. That side of it was really severe.
Our performance in the first half had nothing to do with that. That was unrelated to it.
You must comprehend the rules of the game and adjust your strategy accordingly.
“You don’t want to concede an ineffective goal to the opposition and watch it happen.
