Simon Cox calls for Albion to fight
Monday 22nd November 2010, 10:30AM GMT.
A still-angry Simon Cox is urging Albion to fight their way through the “sticky patch” after claiming his side had run out of luck.
Cox is still incensed at the second penalty award in Saturday’s cruel home defeat by Stoke, in which the Albion forward was penalised for a shoulder barge on Dean Whitehead.
But the bigger picture is an Albion side who are now fighting to prevent all the excellent work of the opening weeks of the season from being undone, after four defeats in five games.
And Cox said: “We have to be positive. We need to pick our heads up off the floor and move forward as a club.
“We’re in a sticky patch and we need to come out of it. If we can do that as quickly as possible, then we’ll be OK.
“The results against Man United, Arsenal etc were very good and maybe some people – not inside the club, but those outside looking in – perhaps got a bit carried away.
“The management team and the players have been looking forward to games and right now things aren’t dropping for us.
“Look what happened with their third goal, Scott Carson made a great save and then it still went in.
“Those kind of things weren’t happening to us at the start of the season. They were falling for us. It’s a little bit of luck we’re lacking at the moment.
“It’s one of those things where we’re working hard but it’s not falling for us.”
Cox was a second-half substitute against Stoke and described the decisive second penalty award by referee Chris Foy as typical of the kind of fortune Albion are currently enduring.
He added: “It was very soft in my opinion – 20,000 home fans thought so as well. I saw the runner, tracked him all the way and just made him not get the ball.
“I could either have cleared it or Scott could have swept it away. He went over softly, the referee bought it and it’s disheartening because we were looking better.
“If roles were reversed and he did it to me I’d probably do the same, to be honest.”
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