Tag: Northampton Town

Peterborough player passes to similarly dressed steward

A different type of kit clash


During Peterborough’s match against Northampton Town in League One on Saturday, defender Michael Bostwick spotted an unmarked teammate and fizzed a pass his way. The only problem: it wasn’t a teammate. It was a steward, dressed in a similar shade of yellow to the Posh, walking along the touchline.

The steward had no idea the ball was coming his way and kept right on walking as the ball boy snatched it up. Possession went to Northampton Town, but Peterborough ended up with a 1–0 win when Chris Forrester, who definitely is not a steward, scored during stoppage time.

So if you want to confuse your opponents, dress up your stewards in similar colors and have them sprint up and down the sides of the pitch.


Confused Barnet player breaks from the wall, takes other team’s free kick

Anticipation can be a powerful thing. And when the anticipated event doesn’t play out as expected, it can be difficult to adjust on the fly. This is the situation Barnet’s Andy Yiadom found himself in during a League Two match against Northampton Town.

Yiadom was a member of the wall on a Northampton free kick. He was determined to charge the ball and attempt to block whatever Northampton tried to do with it. But when the first player to make a run at it proved to be a decoy, Yiadom found himself in no-man’s land with a decision to make: either keep running past the ball or to kick it and chest bump an innocent bystander. He chose the latter option. This earned him a yellow card.

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