Tooley's Take
03/30/2025 03:14 AM
Phil Tooley takes a look at the game and its context Barrow 0 Chesterfield 1 League Two Game #38 Right then. Whose fault was that? Who's culpable? Always the first thing supporters want to think about after a tight defeat, because it's always got to be someone's fault. So let's turn the tables and think about whose fault it was that Town won a tight match, where neither side looked like they quite had what it takes to steal the points, but, on this occasion, Chesterfield were the kleptomaniacs. Was it Paul Cook's fault? Must have picked the wrong side, no shots in the first half, and he must have got lucky with the substitutions as usual, the fact that the Spireites have scored more goals off the bench than any other club in the league just shows he gets the team selection wrong regularly. Was it Liam Mandeville's fault? As a right-back, why on earth was he bombing forwards to try and keep a loose ball in when, surely, he should have been thinking about defending, not leaving Chesterfield's right side potentially exposed by bombing forwards, then simply rolling it to Ollie Banks who passed for Michael Jacobs […]
