I've just read that Northampton Town are going to make a formal complaint about Scunthorpe's decision to field kids against Bristol Rovers as compromising the "integrity of the final day".

It's interesting reading some of the stats from Northampton's final game at Barrow. They were 3-0 up after 22 minutes. Between the 33rd and 88th minutes Northampton didn't register a single shot at the Barrow goal. Obviously news had filtered through that Bristol Rovers had scored the seven they needed and Northampton managed 3 goal attempts in the dying moments.

Instead of blaming Scunthorpe, I'd suggest that Northampton look at how their foot off the pedal from being 3-0 up. It was only when they realised they had slipped out of the top 3 that they decided to have a go again. One would be quite reasonable in thinking that Northampton could have added more against a side who had just avoided relegation and had started like they had nothing to play for.

It reminds me of the tortoise and the hare.