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King’s Lynn boss on his reaction to post-match boos following home draw with Radcliffe




Adam Lakeland said he was unhappy with the reaction of a section of the home crowd after King's Lynn Town's 1-1 home draw against Radcliffe.

A handful of supporters booed the team on the final whistle despite Lynn stretching their unbeaten home record to seven games and moving up a place to fifth in the National League North table

Lynn's boss looked visibly unhappy with the reception at the end and made his thoughts known in the post-match chat with the media.

King's Lynn Town manager Adam Lakeland. Picture: Tim Smith
King's Lynn Town manager Adam Lakeland. Picture: Tim Smith

Lakeland said: "I thought it was really harsh for supporters to boo my team off today and I'm really disappointed.

"They deserve better than that and that's probably the most noise I heard all game was the boos at the end. I think that's incredibly harsh and the players deserve better than that.

"I think it's delusional, booing the team off today. I'll get battered, no doubt, for being critical but, you know, 12 months ago when we were having a really bad time, I had between 700 and 900 people shouting at me.

"This team's fifth in the league now and they're doing incredibly well. We've got a young team that's trying and giving everything. So now it's my turn to have a bit of a shout at them.

"I want and expect my team to get more support. I can understand frustration like no problem with that and I can understand ambition because we all want to we all have aspirations to do well, but I I think it's incredibly harsh for them to do them off today, Incredibly harsh."

The hosts were behind on 10 minutes - a stretching Sam Walker could only play the ball towards Sam Greenfield who drove in a low shot from 20 yards which beat keeper Paul Jones, who won't be watching any replays after letting the ball slip through his arms.

On the stroke of half-time, Greenfeld crashed into Sam Walker as he went for Armstrong’s cross and referee Lewis Dawson pointed to the penalty spot.

Margetts kept his cool to slot home from 12 yards and Lynn were back in the game.

Lynn had the better of the second half in terms of chances, Hmami pushed one wide and with 10 minutes left forced Hewelt into another routine save.

The same player could, and should, have settled it with minutes remaining, but shot straight at the goalkeeper’s legs before screwing the rebound wide of an open goal.

Lynn have made giant strides this campaign after staving off the threat of relegation last season.

Lakeland added: “We've got a good team, we've got some really good players, who I demand a lot of."

"My job's to just keep squeezing them to get as much out of them as I possibly can, so the buck always stops with me, and I'm completely fine with that.

“But we are demanding a lot of the group. If I look at us as a group in comparison to a lot of the other teams up and around the top end of the division, where generally the managers have been in place for at least a couple of seasons, the majority of their squads have been in place for quite some time.

"They've got a lot of experienced players, a lot of know-how, lots of players who've maybe had that year-on-year demand of trying to win every week and trying to be top of the league.

“We're learning on the job and I think these players are doing incredibly well to be where we are. But we still want more and we can still get better and we have to get better.

“But my belief and my confidence in what we're doing doesn't wane just because we've only taken two points from the last nine. Of course, there's frustration and disappointment, but we've just got to keep on working hard, go again.”

King’s Lynn Town: Jones, Crowe (Ronan 90), Wilson, Taylor, Armstrong, Johnson, Walker (Barnes 68), Hmami, McCammon, Crane (Hughes 83), Margetts (Omotayo 68). Subs not used: Coulson.

Goal: Margetts 45

Radcliffe: Hewelt, Jackson, Duxbury, Smith, Maynard, Hancock (Wood 67), Glendon (Walker 83), Hulme, Roscoe, Sargent, Greenfield. Subs not used: Dudley, Navarro, Riley.

Goal: Greenfield 10

Att: 801



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