Morrison Riled by Programme

Football is no stranger to poor excuses after a team loses a match. We've heard all manner of stuff coming out of the mouths of managers, players and coaches in the aftermath of defeat.

Blaming the absence of players through injury or suspension is a pretty popular one. Some managers might put defeat down to a series of missed chances or poor defending.

The poor state of some pitches also gets an airing in post match interviews, while a bad refereeing performance could also bear the brunt.

Sometimes you might even get the odd player or manager putting a defeat down to plain bad luck.

Not John Morrison.

After their defeat to Roscommon at the weekend, Leitrim's assistant manager didn't blame his players, the officials, or even the weather.

Nope. He blamed the matchday programme!

Morrison has cited an article in the programme outlining Leitrim's poor home record as a contributing factor to the side's "lack of self-belief":

"Who put those articles in the programme? ‘Leitrim never win at home’, ‘Leitrim have never beaten Roscommon’ and so on. They might have just said ‘lie down there until we whip you again’. The mindset and perception has to change in Leitrim and the likes of that programme do little to change attitudes."

Translating the publishing of these (factual) statistics into a possible reason for defeat surely borders on ridiculous.

The programme pointed to Leitrim's record at Carrick-on-Shannon that contained only seven wins in 49 games.

You can make that 50 games now John.