ive read so many quotes from saturday from this man and he comes across as a proper gent.
admitted it was a stonewall penalty and said we were by far the better side and we have premership players. waht a gent being so gracious in defeat, how many other managers have not been after we have beaten them this year.
heres to doogie, all the best man, hope you keep your club up i really do.
Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman felt referee Martin Atkinson was right to send off Paddy McCarthy at QPR.
McCarthy saw red after fouling Adel Taarabt to give QPR a penalty and that proved to be the winning goal as Heidar Helguson tucked it away for 2-1. James Vaughan had earlier cancelled out Helguson's opener for the Hoops.
Freedman said: "We've no complaints at all. Unfortunately, Paddy gave the referee an opportunity to give a penalty and to send him off.
"Of course that was a turning point, especially in what was a close game that I thought was going to the wire.
"We had to defend for our lives in the first 40 minutes, but I felt once we got the goal it gave us a boost and we could have gone on from there.
"QPR are top of the league and are a very good side with Premier League players, but we gave them a run for their money.
"My players didn't complain. They never do. We dust ourselves down and go again, and we showed that again.
"We've been playing like that for four or five weeks. We never give in, and that's the encouraging thing for me."
admitted it was a stonewall penalty and said we were by far the better side and we have premership players. waht a gent being so gracious in defeat, how many other managers have not been after we have beaten them this year.
heres to doogie, all the best man, hope you keep your club up i really do.
Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman felt referee Martin Atkinson was right to send off Paddy McCarthy at QPR.
McCarthy saw red after fouling Adel Taarabt to give QPR a penalty and that proved to be the winning goal as Heidar Helguson tucked it away for 2-1. James Vaughan had earlier cancelled out Helguson's opener for the Hoops.
Freedman said: "We've no complaints at all. Unfortunately, Paddy gave the referee an opportunity to give a penalty and to send him off.
"Of course that was a turning point, especially in what was a close game that I thought was going to the wire.
"We had to defend for our lives in the first 40 minutes, but I felt once we got the goal it gave us a boost and we could have gone on from there.
"QPR are top of the league and are a very good side with Premier League players, but we gave them a run for their money.
"My players didn't complain. They never do. We dust ourselves down and go again, and we showed that again.
"We've been playing like that for four or five weeks. We never give in, and that's the encouraging thing for me."
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