Kieran Shannon: When you don't accept a loss you lose a lot more

The NAC has lost a lot of credibility in this entire saga, with their flawed process and logic and understanding of what constitutes “a serious injustice” as well as the practices and rules concerning last-second free throws.

ACCEPT LOSS: The NAC has lost a lot of credibility in this entire saga, with their flawed process and logic and understanding of what constitutes “a serious injustice” as well as the practices and rules concerning last-second free throws. Pic: ©INPHO/Tom Maher

It’s an unwritten clause but whenever we sign up to get involved in sport, part of the contract we enter is that sometimes we’re going to lose narrowly, cruelly, even unfairly and we just have to accept that it and human error happens.

Last week a club in the Irish national basketball league and even a wing of the sport’s national governing body forgot that and themselves.