“The use of the word was not intended to cause offence and was used in the heat of the moment, in the frustration of the defeat. It was a poor choice of language to define those emotions and wasn’t meant in the true meaning of the word,” said Scunthorpe United manager Brian Laws.
He had suggested his team’s defending in their 4-0 thrashing by Doncaster Rovers was “as bad as the Holocaust”.
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