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Reactions to Bolton game (29/12/01)

Bassett was fuming today (again) as his players showed that they had learnt nothing from earlier defeats and threw away a 2goal and 2 men advantage to only get a draw at Bolton.

Speaking to Sky, Bassett said,

I'm quite speechless, ( then he ranted for half an hour as usual- Ed) extremely disappointed to throw it away," he said. "It's scandalous really.

Eleven men against nine men and we were 2-0 up. We gave them a lift by conceding a simple goal, which should have been protected, to give them hope.

"Then we didn't finish them in the second half and if you give a mug a chance he will get up and mug you. That's exactly what happened.

"In the final moments we just needed to show more resilience and Leicester City teams at the moment don't seem to have too much resilience. They seem to have too many clangers in the bag.

"It was a defining game for us and I'm very disappointed."

On the official site Bassett added,

"We threw the game and three points away which is scandalous and I'm bitterly disappointed.

"To be 2-0 up against nine men there should have been no problem. But we created a problem by conceding a sloppy goal in the first half which has been indicative of Leicester City this season."

Robbie Savage told of the two tackles on him which resulted in red cards on the official site...

"I'm sure the press will have a field day, calling me the bad guy but if they look at the TV replays if they don't see anything wrong with those tackles they need their heads examining.

"It was two bad tackles and they happened to me. The game is in a bad state when the manager has to take you off because he's worried you might break your leg or get yourself sent off.

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