The last game must be replayed, and it's effecting the mood of the
players, whose season would have been over otherwise.

They may have been within the letter of the law, but they were not in its spirit (the ... was a player whose phenomenal mastery over a defensive mood could repeatedly disrupt and arrest a game, the smooth rhythmic ebb and flow of which was its greatest charm; ... Shepherd hit the post with a penalty in the last minute

Explanation:

if this isnt a true or false than they have equal amount of importants