Jim Goodwin rubbishes Raith Rovers rattled jibe as Dundee Utd boss tells Ian Murray 'I don't care' about ticket spat

Jim Goodwin has rubbished Ian Murray’s claim Dundee United are rattled going into their top-of-the-table Championship clash with Raith Rovers.

Rival boss Murray made the claim after the Tannadice club refused to release more away tickets for Saturday’s top-two clash. United have a one-point advantage over Rovers. The Fifers have a game in hand but Goodwin has dismissed Murray’s claims his side are feeling the pressure.

The Dundee United boss said: “Definitely not, no. This is a game of football. There are a hell of a lot worse things happening in the world and, even in football terms, we are the ones sitting top of the table. The ticketing situation has absolutely nothing to do with me, and I couldn’t care if they got 500 tickets or 5000 tickets. It means nothing to me or my players. We focus on what we can affect in the game and what we need to do to get the result.

“We are very comfortable – we have some big players in our team. There’s a lot of experience in our squad – boys who have been there, done it and have handled these sort of situations before and we’ve just got to enjoy these moments. It’s great to be fighting for a title, exciting for everyone and we’ll be calm and focused going into Saturday.”

Rovers have had the better of the head-to-heads this season but that is something the United camp is keen to change. The overriding feeling is that we are really looking forward to it.” Goodwin said. “There hasn’t been a great deal in any of the games we’ve played and we certainly didn’t deserve to lose the last game we played.

“We just didn’t capitalise on the opportunities that came our way. We felt we would have won, and won quite comfortably. Then we get hit by a sucker-punch that, nine times out of 10, doesn’t