He said it was a shameful day for Millwall, whose fans made up about 32, 000 of the crowd of 62, 335, as an increasingly tense atmosphere built up throughout the second half before trouble flared.
Indeed, after such a tense build-up, the start of the mission turned out to be a huge anti-climax.
It was a decent chance but Kevin Thomson's effort failed to make it past a wall of white jerseys after a tense build-up to the shot.
It stayed that way through extra-time to set up a tense penalty shoot-out which City won 4-2.
However, with Sinfield missing the extras the six-point gap set up a tense finish.
Barmby then nodded in a second to set up a tense finale but Wigan held on.
Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty seemed to have sealed United's win but Barnes' superb free-kick set up a tense finale.
But a Wasps penalty try set up a tense finish, with Bristol replacement Ed Barnes landing an equalising penalty.
England led 32-7 shortly after the break but their opponents hit back to set up a tense finish at Twickenham.
However, Maxi Pereira reduced the deficit to 3-2 to set up a tense finish, and their fighting qualities pleased their coach.
Pires pulled one back on 90 minutes to set up a tense finish, but the Hammers held on for a hard-fought victory.
The 21-year-old Bernard came up short with another penalty but found his range with nine minutes left to set up a tense finale.
Tommy Bowe's late breakaway almost produced a try and set up a tense finale, but Leicester's defence held firm and they did enough to win.
The visitors really should have set up a tense finale when a close-range header from Ridgewell trickled fractionally over the line before being scrambled clear by James.
The store never opened, and by midmorning authorities wielding megaphones roped off the store and told the crowd of hundreds to disperse to break up the tense scene.
Although Hayter stole a yard in the box to head the home side back into the game and set up a tense last five minutes, the Baggies held on to secure their place in the top flight.
However, Stefan Kiessling made it 3-0 after 58 minutes before Zvjezdan Misimovic reduced the deficit with a free-kick on 76 and Grafite's penalty four minutes later, after Hans Sarpei felled Edin Dzeko, set up a tense finish.
His replacement Derick Hougaard just missed with a drop-goal attempt but it looked like Leicester had done enough to hold on for the win, until Bowe's breakaway took the ball right down to the Tigers' line to set up a tense finale.
Correspondents say Mombasa, where a secessionist group operates, is often tense in the run-up to elections because of some accusations that the government is marginalising indigenous communities.
Led by Lundqvist's 35 saves in a second consecutive shutout, the Rangers beat the Capitals 5-0 to wrap up an otherwise tense and tight seven-game series, eliminating Alex Ovechkin and Washington for the second year in a row.
Mr Lew is due to take up his post amid tense negotiations between the White House and congressional Republicans.
The carefree, defiant mood swept me up despite my experience covering tense situations.
Inside, it's a little more tense, as lines of students queue up - financial aid applications in hand - to negotiate how they're going to pay for their education.
Particularly in cities like Tripoli, where the sectarian divisions in Syria are mirrored in the city's own tense communities and districts, clerics fire up their followers with calls for Jihad, or holy war.
There was one point both of them got up and the whole room was tense.
When the time came to haul up the first line, everyone was tense.
When we look at that environment, that ecological niche if you like, we found (past tense, for of course all of these models are up in the air now) that in different parts of the environment different models worked.
When the pope died, Cardinal Ratzinger was thrust into the spotlight as the most senior member of the College of Cardinals, delivering a tense address to his fellow cardinals in the run-up to the conclave that elected him pope.
But luckily for fans looking forward to a tense finish on the weekend, Davis and the USGA have set up the final few holes for some excitement.
There was a tense moment between Tim Kendall of Facebook and Brad Bender of Google when privacy came up.
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