"The game probably suited Morgan's abilities and there's probably nobody better than him ball-in-hand, " said Davies.
Northampton gave themselves a glimmer of hope before half-time when Chris Mayor flicked the ball on one-handed for Diggen to cross in the left-hand corner.
Burke collected a Steven Davis pass from the left before squeezing the shot between two green jerseys, leaving Ma-Kalambay with no chance as the ball nestled in the goalkeeper's right-hand bottom corner.
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The stalemate was broken six minutes from the break when Hinkel latched on to a ball on the right-hand side and sent in a low ball for McDonald to fire past Langfield for the opener.
Long's long pass wide exploited Amos Roberts stepping out of the Wigan defensive line and found winger Meli to ground the ball in the left-hand corner.
It was all the striker's own work as the chased a ball into the right-hand channel before cutting in and drilling a 20-yard effort low past Green.
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In another, he waves a 40-pound rope in his one hand while dribbling a ball in the other.
The final action saw a strong hand-ball appeal against Etuhu in the City box.
Skacel curled the free kick from just outside the area round the wall but although the ball looked set to sneak in at the right-hand post, it was deflected round.
But Wimbledon's recent goalless run came to an end after 14 minutes when Watson misjudged Robbie Earle's 50-yard ball out of defence in a swirling wind and Ekoku drilled it home via Thomas Myhre's left-hand post.
Cardiff number eight, Steve Williams, was denied after one early break from a scrum, but when he repeated it from closer range and the ball went loose in the tackle, scrum-half Howley was on hand to pick up and trot over against his former club.
One such tempting ball of yarn even led to a hand covered in band-aids.
He held both elbows close to his belt, and I would hand him the ball in his mid-section.
On the other hand, in a hard-ball approach, the company could have cited ongoing litigation as reason to bow out.
Northampton full-back Ben Foden, a renowned runner with ball in hand, had been tipped to start against Scotland but Johnson has retained his faith in London Irish number 15 Armitage.
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Distillery took the lead with a penalty in the 15th minute by Gary Browne after a hand-ball by Kyle Neill.
Bothroyd reduced the deficit on 32 minutes with their first real chance when he beat the offside trap to superbly chest down Chris Burke's ball over the top and coolly fire past Dorus de Vries in bottom left-hand corner.
The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start.
The new Cardiff captain had a hand in Jay Bothroyd's first-half opener as the ball fell kindly for the big striker.
To their credit both sides, and in particular the Blues, continued to attempt to play with ball in hand, but two penalties apiece was all their reward before the half-time break.
Lazio -- whose German striker Miroslav Klose earned praise after admitting to match officials that he had used his hand when bundling the ball home early on -- suffered their second loss in as many games after starting their campaign with three straight wins.
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Scotland took the lead on a rare break when defender Holmar Eyjolfsson lost the ball in his own penalty area and Murphy hammered the ball into the net from the right-hand side of the penalty box.
Shane Elford thought he had further reduced the gap when he rolled over in the right-hand corner, but Platt did superbly to prevent him grounding the ball.
His brother Marco volleyed in from the edge of the penalty area moments later, but the ball flew past the left-hand post.
And youngster Kieran Gibbs then showed early nerves as he slipped to let in Ronaldo, but United's winger flashed the ball across the face of goal with no-one on hand to apply the crucial final touch.
Celtic restored parity six minutes after the restart when Samaras sent a square ball to McGeady on the right-hand side of the Motherwell penalty area and the Republic of Ireland international curled in a superb shot past Ruddy.
Hamilton's Dougie Imrie flighted in an early ball to the back post in the first decent attack of the match, but none of his team-mates were on hand to convert and it was safely knocked out for a corner by Alan Maybury.
Hull looked anything but the league's highest try-scorers going into the game in a performance littered with handling errors and poor decisions with ball in hand.
In a rare struggle to monopolise the ball, Spain looked riled - but while Chile worked overtime to establish the upper hand they lost their discipline - both Gary Medel and Waldo Ponce were rightly booked for nasty tackles and will miss the match against Brazil.
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