Ashton Reid in Preseason Bust-Up

Extracted from The Daily Poop

London United rookie left-back Ashton Reid made a poor challenge on Watford Antlers' midfielder Andrew Harrison in a preseason game on Thursday.

Reid tackles Harrison high and late and Antlers players had a run and Ashton to ran off trying to avoid them. Captain Mark Strickland was so pissed off with the referee, he threaten to Kung-Fu him. John Macdonald inexplicably yelled "YOU B******" straight into the referee's face. J-Mac got so pissed with the ref that he took one of his Asics Tigreors off and threatened to throw it in the referee's face. He was booked for trying to do so. Ashton Reid had his back turned to the ref as he finally booked him after 3 minutes and 51 seconds of madness.

"I apologise to anyone I offended, and of course Andrew who I tackled. It was not malicious," Reid told LUTV.

"I didn't mean to diss the ref. I recognise this as a part of my game I need to work on and control."

The 19-year-old England CSA U21 left-back, who watched a replay of the match on TV on Friday morning, is adamant he did not intend to hurt Harrison, adding: "I did not mean to go in hard that way.

"It was high but I tried to read the ball and get it first but he was a little bit too quick for me.

"Again it was not malicious and I am a little disappointed with what some people are saying, that I meant it.

"Of course it was a bad tackle at the time but in the heat of the moment you want to win the game and win every tackle. As I said, I am sorry for Andrew but it was never meant."

Harrison himself has said that he holds no grudge towards Reid for the tackle.

"He went to win the ball and I've just got there quicker," said the Canadian on Friday.

"I wasn't thinking about whether he would be sent off, I knew the challenge was high but so was the ball.

"I am not blaming him for it, I've probably done a similar challenge in my career. He said he never meant it afterwards and that's fine with me."

Watford Antlers are a Regional League side by the way if you're wondering.

Here's the video footage of the tackle: