Lower league player makes Fergies rant look amateurish

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Background: Very ill-tempered game, Torquay score 2 mins into injury time, Northampton Town equalise 6 mins into injury time. Torquay player verbally lays into Ref, linesman, opposing players and opposing support. If there is any consistency with the FA a charge must surely be winging its way to Guy Branston.

TLDR version: Player states his opinion in no uncertain terms that he thinks Ref a homer, other team divers, opposing fans bitter and twisted.

FURIOUS former Cobbler Guy Branston went on the attack following Friday night’s controversial 2-2 draw with Torquay at Sixfields, labelling goalscoring hero Guillem Bauza a ‘cheat’.

Branston, who spent a month on loan with the Cobblers in November 2007, also slammed the Sixfields crowd for influencing what he thought was an inept performance from referee Chris Sarginson. The Gulls defender gave both barrels to Sarginson and his two assistants, claiming they were biased towards the home side. Branston echoed the thoughts of his manager, Paul Buckle, who claimed his side were ‘robbed’ after the Cobblers were given a free-kick on the edge of the penalty area deep in to injury time that resulted in Bauza’s equaliser.

“The referee gave a lot of the decisions their way,” said Branston. “I was booked for blocking a Spanish player, and a very, very good player. “But he cheated most of the night, diving around making a meal of things. The referee was very much Northampton. We can’t have that in this division, it is disappointing. “He gave them a free-kick just outside the area at the end, he is trying to give them a penalty for a handball. He is going along with whatever the crowd are doing, it is disappointing, really disappointing. “

Branston believes the free-kick awarded to the Cobblers from which they equalised six minutes into stoppage time should have been given to his side, claiming Shaun Harrad elbowed Gulls centre-back Chris Robertson. He added: “Robbo said to me Harrad had elbowed him, so he has moved Harrad out of the way and Harrad has gone down. If that’s true, Harrad has sucked him in. But why doesn’t the linesman see the elbow when he sees the shove? Then the referee has let them come five yards in front of the foul for the free-kick.

“The referee is a very good referee, there is no doubt about that. But I can’t understand it, there was no consistency - our centre-forward was getting fouled left, right and centre, but there was no free-kick.” And Branston couldn’t resist a pop at the home support, criticising them for what he feels is an inferiority complex. “They (the crowd) made a meal of everything that went on, and that is what Northampton does,” said Branston. “They are very bitter and twisted, they sit there and moan and moan and moan about every decision. They think ‘the world is against us because we are Northampton Town’. But they seem to forget, we are lowly lowly Torquay and we’re batting well above our weight.

“And we’ve come on Friday and played against lads who are on £2,500 per week and knocked them off the park, physically and mentally. “They can’t moan at us for coming here, sticking the boot in and getting in to them, because once Gary Johnson gets his team, that’s all they will be doing.”

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