Andrews’ time-wasting complaint triggers Dyche towel rant after Forest beat Brentford | OneFootball

Nottingham Forest struck after 12 minutes at the Gtech, then sealed it on a 79th-minute break, beating Brentford and sparking a row over game management. Keith Andrews accepted his side were wasteful, but criticised the pace of restarts as Sean Dyche homed in on towel use at throw-ins.

According to Hounslow Herald, goal-kicks were delayed, throw-ins laboured and substitutions stretched out, turning the contest into a stop-start affair that blunted Brentford’s rhythm.

Andrews maintained the delays were not why Brentford lost, though he argued they disrupted momentum and made sustained pressure harder to build.

Dyche framed the debate as part of football’s constant evolution. He highlighted the resurgence of long throws, which require set-ups and naturally take time, and said managers will always use whatever is permitted. He added he dislikes players going down easily, yet accepts it still happens.

His sharpest comments targeted towels on the touchline to dry the ball. Dyche questioned why a home team can provide them, wondered if rules differ from the EFL, and suggested the Premier League should remove towels altogether to speed things up. He stressed he was not alleging the away side were barred from using them, and quipped that common sense is rarely common.

Brentford, meanwhile, have the Premier League’s third-lowest ball-in-play time this season, influenced in part by their own long-throw routines and ball drying before restarts.

Source: Hounslow Herald