Agreed, minimal contact, theatrical dive from Mellor. However, Akins seemed to go to ground quite easily for the challenge which resulted in the second yellow sending-off.
To be fair it happened right in front of us and Akins got past the defender and the defender had hold of his shirt and dragged Akins down, Akins had no need to go down otherwise as he had gotten into a great position.
Have to say I thought the preston fans were a strange bunch and saw some pretty distasteful things outside the ground including some little scrote spitting in a little girls face because she had a Tranmere shirt on and some lad getting a kicking by some lads who jumped in a car and sped off. The majority of their 'support' to the left of the away end spent most of the game looking at the away end and offering Tranmere fans out.
The performance was good and we should have got something out of the game. The peno was a dive and the second we got carved open. We have to dip into the transfer market for someone who can finish or this season will slip away from us. We dont have one player who looks capable of getting into double figures and at times on saturday we got into good positions but failed to do anything with the ball. I was also disappointed we didnt put them under more pressure when they were down to 10 men, instead we took a striker off and played Goodison up front???????? Couldnt really understand that, there had to be a better option, even bringing Joss on and pushing Baxter alongside Chicken would have been a better option.
All in all I was surprised how gutted I actually was, perhaps because I felt we would get a spanking but in reality we were robbed of a well deserved point.
Oh can anyone explain how Buchanen can give a free kick away for getting kicked in the head AND
Since when can you be offside from a goal kick?:roll: