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WHITNEY COOL ON SPOT CALL

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The LeaguePaper Team
20 August 2017

By Graham Otway

PIGGY-BACK: Luke Leahy celebrates his goal for Walsall, but, inset, Brett Pitman levels from the spot
PICTURES: PSI/Adam Rivers

PORTSMOUTH skipper Brett Pitman’s debatable second-half penalty denied Walsall all three points from a game which they had dominated from the start.
Yet while Jon Whitney – the Saddlers’ manager – was disappointed only to leave Fratton Park with a draw, he refused to criticise referee Brett Huxtable.
He had pointed to the spot in the 73rd minute when Portsmouth substitute Nicke Kabambe fell to the ground while challe...

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