Oldham Athletic manager, David Unsworth, has admitted Chesterfield will ‘probably’ win the National League title this season.
The Spireites and the Latics are the two favourites to top the division so the admission from Unsworth is surprising.
In a club interview, he said: “I think it is what our players deserved – I thought we were brilliant. I am thrilled for them.”A draw is a really fair result but we have had the best opportunities – make no mistake about that.
“When you come to places like this, if you open up, you get battered. You get absolutely battered and outplayed and I didn’t want that. The game-plan was perfect.
“We had the best two opportunities in the first-half, it was a perfect away performance in the first-half. We got two great opportunities and they had not carved us open.
“We got done by a set-piece which I am fuming about because we have worked on it this week.”
Unsworth was unhappy with the decision to award Chesterfield a corner, which Ash Palmer scored from.
He said: “The corner, leading up to the goal today, it is a foul on Hogan – it is blatant. So the refereeing display was poor. Really, really poor and it is not acceptable and something has got to be done about it because I can’t keep talking about it. It is boring. But we have to talk about it because Tuesday night it cost us a point and today it has cost us a goal.”
Hundreds of Oldham fans invaded the pitch when Norwood equalised and there were some ugly scenes but, bizarrely, Unsworth said he didn’t see what happened.
He added: “I couldn’t really see – there was a melee here (on the sideline) as well. Our fans are overjoyed to have scored and rescued a point but I don’t think it is right for me to comment on that right at this moment because I have not seen what has gone on.”
