Maybe there was nothing the club could have done to prevent it, but in a season where there have been few off pitch embarrassments tof the type that seemed to come along once a month a few years ago, the fact that sixteen year old Sion Spence was prevented from taking the last of the seven substitute places yesterdays looks to be something of a throwback to when we tended to get more things wrong than right off the pitch.
Spence, who is about three months older than Aaraon Ramsey was when he made his debut as what may have been our youngest ever player (there are references to a fifteen year old goalkeeper in the thirties) was, apparently, absent for “insurance reasons”, but you can’t help thinking that he won’t be kept waiting too long for his first team chance – it wouldn’t surprise me if the midfielder, was has made the jump from Under 16 team to regular for the Development side this season, was to feature in a pre season match or, maybe, in our First Round League Cup game next season.