, Leeds defender accused of stamp by Reading loanee Oxford

Leeds defender accused of stamp by Reading loanee Oxford

The Reading vs Leeds United game at the Madejski Stadium was always going to be a tasty affair with both teams neck-and-neck at the top of the table and Yann Kermorgant’s ‘no plan B’ rhetoric. But the talking point was elsewhere yesterday.

Kermorgant, as one Leeds United fan pointed out on Twitter, was right about Leeds not having a ‘plan B’ yesterday against Reading, pointing out that they didn’t have a ‘plan A’ either. This lack of cohesion and forethought left the Whites floundering at times, and they were royally beaten thanks to Kermorgant’s powerful first-half strike.

However, the game will be remembered less for the 1-0 scoreline that saw home side Reading leap-frog visitors Leeds in the table and more for the following incident – a ‘stamp’ by Leeds defender Liam Cooper on Reading’s Reece Oxford, who is on loan from West Ham.

Whilst fans of both sides dispute the intention behind Cooper’s actions, Reece Oxford himself commented, his views on the matter mentioned in local newspaper the Reading Chronicle. The on-loan West Ham youngster said of Cooper’s actions: “I thought it was a stamp. I couldn’t see it but it felt like someone just stood on my head. I didn’t see who it was to be fair but I’m going to go home and watch it to see what happened.”

Leeds’ Cooper was not punished for the incident by matchday referee Keith Stroud, although there are calls for it to be retrospectively reviewed in the manner of the incident between Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Bournemouth’s Tyrone Mings, a similar incident to that between Oxford/Cooper and one that resulted in a five match ban for the Bournemouth defender.

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