Post by eusebio13 on Nov 11, 2010 20:56:30 GMT
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Queens Park Rangers teenage loanee to Southend United Antonio German has only been a Shrimpers for one game, but he's already been fined and dropped from the team, for being stuck in traffic!
In our preview we had a German/Corr partnership to start against Charlton in the JPT, and we might have been right, but Blues boss Paul Sturrock decided he was to be dropped to the bench even after scoring the first equaliser against Macclesfield Town in last weekend's FA Cup tie from the penalty spot on his debut.
The talanted teenage is on a month's loan from Championship leaders QPR, and his crime, arriving at Roots Hall around 18.50!
Sturrock told http://www.echo-news.co.uk: "The young lad has come here to play football games but on Tuesday night he got caught up in the circus of the A127 and paid the price of not starting the game. He was going to start but it enabled me to look at another partnership and he might pay the price again this Saturday because it gave others a chance to play. He will also have a wee fine in his wages too."
Some may say an over reaction to a minor offence, and certainly Luggy might have been better to have kept it in-house.
Still, Jack Midson, the other striker on loan, this one from League Two rivals Oxford United, to get the nod against Accrington Stanley Saturday then?
