Match Verdict

STAR MAN JONATHAN HOGG Huddersfield

IF football is the beautiful game then this was its ugly sibling – a playground scrap masquerading as a sporting contest.
So frequently did players hit the deck, square up or kick offin some other fashion that it was 5pm before the referee brought proceedings to a close.
A ringside bell would have been more apt. Both benches still had time for a post-match tangle, and even a ball girl got flattened when Jonathan Hogg was slammed through an advertising hoarding.
Quite how either side finished with ten men is ...