Now this was a foolish, comical gaffe, though perhaps not a global crisis Beckett's comments were absurd, but the condemnations also got a little heated and growly, and after a while, the whole thing started to sound like an argument about Joss Whedon's movies taking place on a bus to chess camp.

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The game heated up after the break with little in the way of shots on goal but a string of bookings for both sides.

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