Andy Holt - Frustration

Northampton skipper Andy Holt, 32, was left dumb-founded at the weekend over the decision to send off team mate Dean Beckwith for stamping on Shaun Jeffers during the game against Cheltenham. Holt replaced Beckwith in the heart of the defence and said

“I didn’t feel it was a sending off, although I didn’t see it properly I don’t see how the referee could see it properly. I think he kind of went off the reaction of the crowd. He called me over and said ‘I saw him stamp on him’, but I said ‘surely you were watching the ball and he told me he had an assistant linesman to do that.

We went down to ten men, but I still thought we had more than enough chances to get a point from this game. Even before Dean was sent off we had a couple of good chances. When we went one-nil down the heads didn’t drop. I believe that the goal we had that was ruled offside wasn’t offside and things like that just went against us a little bit.

The referee made some strange decisions that didn’t go for us and that’s the bad luck we seem to be having at the moment.”