MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Jason Shultz won Friday night’s URC sprint car feature at Williams Grove Speedway.

Shultz took the win away from Steve Buckwalter after dogging him for the first 17 laps of the 25-lap event.

Buckwalter and Shultz had the front row for the start of the URC sprint main and Buckwalter got the drop when the green flag appeared.

Shultz assumed second and hounded Buckwalter all during the first eight laps before a red flag appeared for a turned over Derek Locke in the fourth corner.

Mark Smith lined up third for the restart but failed to challenge instead it was back to Shultz and Buckwalter battling for the win with Shultz sticking to the top lane while Buckwalter worked the inside.

And Shultz finally got far enough around in turns three and four with seven laps to go in order to be scored the leader.

Once in front, Shultz pulled away to a 2.095 second lead to pick up his first career 360 sprint car win at Williams Grove.

Lucas Wolfe, who won the 410 sprint car feature, was third followed by Josh Weller and Freddie Rahmer.

The finish:

Feature (25 laps): 1. Jason Shultz, 2. Steve Buckwalter, 3. Lucas Wolfe, 4. Josh Weller, 5. Freddie Rahmer, 6. Kyle Reinhardt, 7. Adam Carberry, 8. Tyler Ross, 9. Ed Aikin, 10. Curt Michael, 11. Chad Layton, 12. Austin Bishop, 13. Tyler Breahm, 14. Cody Fletcher, 15. Mark Smith, 16. Jake Eldreth, 17. Matt Hoyt, 18. Ryan Quackenbush, 19. Tim Perry, 20. Han Donovan  Jr., 21. Ryan Watt, 22. Dereck Locke

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is including Romelu Lukaku in his plans for next season because of doubts about whether Inter Milan have the money to prise the striker away from Old Trafford, sources have told ESPN FC.

Lukaku is keen on a move to the San Siro but talks between club representatives in London this week ended without the Serie A side making a formal offer because of a significant gap between their respective valuations.

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There is a belief at United that in the current inflated market they can make a profit on Lukaku having paid Everton £75 million for the forward just two years ago.

The 26-year-old, who has scored 42 in 96 games since arriving from Goodison Park, still has four years left on his contract. Inter are the only club to express an interest.

Lukaku missed training in Perth on Thursday evening and instead took part in a gym session. He returned to the group on Friday and could play a part in the first preseason friendly against Perth Glory at Optus Stadium on Saturday.

Inter have indicated they would be willing to loan Lukaku with an obligation to buy included in the deal or send players to Old Trafford as makeweights, but United are set to hold out for a significant fee.

The Belgian could line up against Inter in Singapore on July 20 on the next leg of the summer tour.

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers reported a profit of just $724,000 in their latest fiscal year, which included their second consecutive season without a playoff appearance, a large contract extension for quarterback Aaron Rodgers and a change in head coach from Mike McCarthy to Matt LaFleur.

Green Bay's profit in the year ending March 31 was down 97.9% from $34.1 million in the year ending March 2018 and down more than 99% from the record $75 million in the previous fiscal year.

"From a financial standpoint, it was a unique year for the Packers," team president Mark Murphy said Friday.

Expenses rose from $420.9 million to $477.2 million, boosted by Rodgers' $134 million, four-year deal and contracts for several free agents: outside linebackers Za'Darius Smith and Preston Smith, safety Adrian Amos and guard Billy Turner.

"We were a little more aggressive than we've been in a number of years," Murphy said.

While overall revenue increased 5.1% to $477.9 million, local revenue improved by only 2.3%, hurt by consecutive losing seasons that affected pro shop visits and tours of Lambeau Field and the Packers Hall of Fame.

"If we can get back to the playoffs and get to the Super Bowl, that always helps," Murphy said. "We have a policy regarding our season-ticket pricing. We want to be just below the league average. We don't want everything to be on the backs of our season-ticket holders."

The NFL's collective bargaining agreement is set to expire after the 2020 season, and the team has $397 million in its corporate reserve fund.

"The plan was that we had enough money to cover expenses for a year. I think we're in very good shape with that," Murphy said. "We don't have a rich, deep-pocketed owner, so we have a $400 million corporate reserve. Three or four years ago, we put $50 million into the corporate reserve. It's grown since then with investment returns, and we've made significant investments in real estate around this area."

As Steven Smith sets up to face Jofra Archer's final spell of the World Cup semi-final, there's a bellowing voice from the RS Wyatt Stand: "Finish the cheat off! Sand him down!" Smith survives the over, but not Jos Buttler's throw between his legs for a run out soon after.

When England bat, David Warner runs back towards the same stand twice in an over to collect boundaries well-struck by the driven Jason Roy. Each time a spectator leaps out of his seat and sprints down to the boundary to hurl more abuse. Warner smiles back at the hostility while collecting the ball.

When the post-mortems for Australia's World Cup campaign are being assembled a couple of hours later, Australia's coach Justin Langer sails fairly smoothly through his press conference until the following exchange with Jacqueline Magnay, the vastly experienced and well regarded Europe correspondent for The Australian newspaper.

Magnay: "Are you concerned at all about the fact Smith and Warner have redeemed themselves on the field but there are still huge question marks about what happened in South Africa, and they haven't been addressed and that may come back?"

Langer: "They've been addressed, oh my gosh, they have been addressed big time. They had a 12-month ban for one."

Magnay: "It hasn't been explained what went on."

Langer: "Within our group it's been addressed, trust me it's been addressed."

Magnay: "But you don't think it'll come back to bite them."

Langer: "What do you mean?"

Magnay: "If they suddenly reveal information that happened or other people reveal what happened..."

Langer: "I think there's been a lot said about what happened in South Africa. We are, I think, honestly moving in the right direction, hopefully we're showing that, the boys have shown that by their behaviours. Not just their batting, I think they've been really good ambassadors on and off the field, they're good people on and off the field, and I'm proud of them for that. What's happened in the past, we all make mistakes, they made some mistakes, hopefully they're redeeming themselves."

That, in a nutshell, is the challenge facing Smith, Warner and Australia during the Ashes series to come. Those three scenes are likely to be repeated unrelentingly, whether it is abuse for Smith, a slightly more raucous kind of the same for Warner, and questions for Australia's leaders about what is left unresolved in the wake of the Newlands scandal.

While there can be no dispute that Australia have improved their behaviour as a cricket team, finding a far better level of aggression to play the game without resorting to personal abuse of opponents, their conduct will have little impact on those insults still being hurled and those questions still being asked.

England tours can have a corrosive effect on players who are targeted by the crowds. Certainly 2009 was a struggle for Mitchell Johnson, who has admitted the Barmy Army's mocking got into his head. When Johnson returned in 2015, he was far stronger mentally, but the old barbs remained an obstacle as Australia were defeated again.

Targeted booing campaigns are nothing new either. Just ask Ricky Ponting, who faced a chorus of them more or less throughout the 2009 series, seemingly for no other reason than the fact he was Ricky Ponting. This history provides context: having not needed much ammunition to target Johnson and Ponting, many of England's supporters will have little hesitation goading Smith and Warner for the length and breadth of the tour.

As for unanswered questions about Newlands and before it, Cricket Australia's chief executive Kevin Roberts stated bluntly earlier this year that those with any relevant additional information should come forward. The Ashes campaign will, meanwhile, take place with that possibility in the background. It is a fragile balance.

"We've been talking about it for 12 months, earning respect back the way we behave on and off the field," Langer said. "I think the spirit of the World Cup's been brilliant. I'd love to see that continue actually. I've really enjoyed watching the spirit of how this World Cup's been played. I think we have, hopefully we have. We can't judge that, we'll just keep behaving well. We talk about culture, behaviour and hopefully we're doing the right things on and off the field. And if we do that we'll do what we set out to do 12 months ago: earn some respect back."

Earning that respect will require an enormous amount of resilience.

MONTEREY, Calif. – Chaz Davies put his ARUBA.IT Racing – Ducati bike on the top of the scoring pylon during the opening day of MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship practice Friday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

Davies raced to the top spot thanks to his best lap of 1:23.387, which was .032 of a second ahead of reigning World Superbike kingpin Jonathan Rea.

“It’s definitely a good start to the weekend even though it’s only Friday, and it was good to see that P1 on the pit board again,” Davies said. “It’s been since Imola and we’ve had some trying times in between but we really felt like we turned the corner in that session. We changed some quite drastic stuff from the morning and just went in the right direction. Overall the bike worked really good, so I’m very happy and hopefully we can take another step forward tomorrow. This is a track where I usually go well at so the target this weekend is to be up there and challenge for the podiums.”

Álvaro Bautista, Rea’s main title rival this year, was third fastest aboard his Ducati. Bautista ended the day .263 off the pace set by his teammate Davies.

BMW Motorrad’s Tom Sykes ended the day fourth overall, followed by Leon Haslam on the second Kawasaki bike.

Loris Baz, Toprak Razgatlioglu, Alex Lowes, Michael van der Mark and Jordi Torres completed the top-10.

American J.D. Beach, making his World Superbike debut, ended the day 15th fastest.

SPARTA, Ky. – Cole Custer converted a dominant second-half performance into his series-leading fifth NASCAR Xfinity Series win of the season Friday night at Kentucky Speedway.

Custer wasn’t the fastest man during the first two stages of the 200-lap race, but he was lights out when it counted. The Ladera Ranch, Calif., native led 87 of the final 90 circuits en route to victory after passing Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Chase Briscoe for the top spot.

From there, it was no contest, as the No. 00 Haas Automation Ford cruised to the checkered flag.

“This one just goes to my team. The car was unbelievable at the end,” said Custer. “They knew exactly what to do with it when the track changed and I was just lucky to drive it there at the end. I can’t thank Gene Haas and everybody at Haas Automation enough. You don’t get cars like that very often.”

The only nervous moment in a caution-free final stage came following Custer’s last pit stop with 51 to go, when rival Christopher Bell erased a 2.7-second deficit by pitting two laps sooner than Custer did.

But Custer used a fast race car to power back away from Bell, slowly and steadily opening up his leading margin to as much as three seconds before crossing the finish line in front by 1.651 seconds in the end.

Friday’s win continues a career season for Custer, who also took the lead in the playoff point tally, with 31 markers banked to Bell’s 30.

“It is pretty unbelievable to win once the last two years … and then this year to go out and win five. It’s a testament to our team,” Custer noted. “My guys made great adjustments throughout the night and knew exactly how the track was going to change. I just can’t thank them enough.”

Bell went virtually unchallenged through the first two 45-lap stages of the race, leading every lap in stage one and 70 of the first 90 overall in claiming his third stage sweep of the season.

However, the handling on Bell’s No. 20 Rheem Toyota went away in the second half of the race, while Custer’s car came to life down the home stretch.

That swing in momentum, combined with a slow pit stop during the second stage break that dropped Bell from the lead back to seventh, was enough to derail his momentum and prevent him from taking home the Crosley jukebox trophy from Kentucky’s victory lane on this night.

“I don’t know what happened. We just got worse … or maybe got too comfortable,” said Bell, who led 72 laps, second only to Custer’s 88 laps led. “We probably needed to free things up a little bit. It’s a bummer night, but our car was really fast and we got a couple more playoff points. Now we just need to work on a couple of things to get the last little bit we’re missing on these mile-and-a-half tracks.”

Tyler Reddick – the third member of the so-called Big Three – completed the top three finishers on Friday night, but he came home a whopping 12.808 seconds behind Custer’s winning car.

Daytona winner Michael Annett crossed fourth and Briscoe completed the top five as the last car on the lead lap. That set a new record for fewest lead-lap cars at the finish in a Kentucky Xfinity Series race.

Noah Gragson, Justin Allgaier, Ryan Truex, Ryan Sieg and Justin Haley finished sixth through 10th, respectively. All of them were one lap down at the checkered flag.

MALTA, N.Y. – Through much of the early season, Kenny Tremont Jr.’s performance at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway has been well below par.

Last week he went back to basics and got back on track, finishing third from deep in the pack.  Friday night, he was even better, charging from 13th on the grid to record his 76th win at the three-eighths-mile dirt oval.

Marc Johnson was almost as good, advancing from 16th to second in the 35-lap DIRTcar modified feature.  With just three laps remaining when he got there, he had no time to challenge the fleet Tremont. Jackie Brown Jr. was a strong third with early leader Rich Ronca and Matt DePew rounding out the top five.

Last week’s winner, Brett Hearn, drew the first yellow on lap three with fuel pressure problems.  The second came on lap 11, when Mike Mahaney and Elmo Reckner tangled in turn four and by then, Tremont was sixth after a strong low groove charge.

When the green returned, Tremont dueled with Bobby Hackel IV for fourth for a few laps, then got a run off turn two and shot down Hackel, DePew and Brown in one fell swoop to show second.

By halfway he’d disposed of Ronca and began building a solid lead. Behind him,  Don Mattison and Matt DeLorenzo battled just out of the top five as Johnson kept getting better and better, making his usual late run on the lead through the late 20-lap range. But by the time he got to Ronca, he was out of time to challenge for the win.

“I was starting to wonder,” said Tremont.  “We put a million different setups under there and finally, last week we were good.  This week we were right on, good in all three lanes.  It feels good to be here again.”

DeLorenzo crossed sixth, trailed by Hackel, Keith Flach, Pete Britten and Jessey Mueller.

In supporting class action, Josh Coonradt bested Chuckie Dumblewski and Brandon Gray in the Pro Stocks while Mike Coffey Jr. claimed the Mark Hughes Memorial over division king pin Tim Hartman Jr. and Daryl Nutting.

Australia's coach Justin Langer believes the absence of Usman Khawaja was critical to the team's failure to put up a defendable total in their World Cup semi-final hiding by England, pinpointing his return to fitness as vital to the Test team's Ashes chances next month.

A hamstring strain in the final qualifying match against South Africa pushed Khawaja out of the line-up at Edgbaston, forcing a batting shuffle that saw Steven Smith at No. 3, Peter Handscomb in from outside the squad at No. 4, and Alex Carey bumped up to five. That rejigged order was soon 14 for 3, a hole from which escape was always going to be difficult.

While Smith and Carey did their bit in a restorative century stand to briefly give Australia a foothold, further wickets were to underline the value Khawaja's top order runs have provided on friendly days for bowling. Langer said Khawaja had been chosen with those very scenarios in mind.

"He was a big loss," Langer said. "We picked him believe it or not specifically for days like today when it was hard, you lose an early wicket, you want that No. 3, your Test No. 3, to score hundreds.

"We didn't have him but that's all part and parcel. We got beaten by a much better team. A few people were laughing about it but I've said from day one England are favourites to win the tournament, they should be. They're a great cricket team and they were better than us today. We were disappointing but they were better than us. And that's okay, you want to be winning all the time but we got beaten by a better team.

"I think you took Jason Roy out of England's side and it made a big impact. You take your best players out of any team, whether it's cricket or AFL or rugby, it's always hard when you lose your best players. There's plenty of talent in Australian cricket, no doubt about that. We're seeing that in the Australia A stuff at the moment, we're going to play 24 guys in two Australian teams leading up to the Ashes, there's plenty of talent there, we just didn't play as well as we should have."

"I've had my heart set on July 14 for probably 12 months so we got to July 11, we fell a few days short. So it's disappointing, we'd have liked to be there in three days' time, I'd rather be in England's dressing room now." Justin Langer

Khawaja's value as a top-order player in challenging conditions was aptly demonstrated in Langer's very first Test as coach, a last day fight to grind out a draw with Pakistan in Dubai last year, and he can be expected to be a similar bulwark on Ashes days where the Dukes ball seams and swings. Reflecting on Australia's semi-final defeat, Langer tried to balance his obvious pain with re-focussing quickly on the Ashes.

"It was just a really, really disappointing day for us but it's been a really good campaign," he said. "Don't underestimate the injury to Usman Khawaja and Shaun Marsh in that first 10 overs against South Africa - we fell 10 runs short of South Africa without one of our premier batsmen, who's been a really important part of the last six months and this World Cup. And Shaun, he broke his arm two days before so that put a bit of a dampener on our campaign. But overall it's been really good hasn't it. We were on top until the last game, fell 10 runs short and then had a really poor game today. So very disappointing.

"I've had my heart set on July 14 for probably 12 months so we got to July 11, we fell a few days short. So it's disappointing, we'd have liked to be there in three days' time, I'd rather be in England's dressing room now, it's always more fun winning than losing, but we have to turn to it now.

"We've known this was going to be an unprecedented time in Australian cricket, a World Cup and then Ashes, so we'll dust ourselves off, recharge our batteries, probably six or seven guys who'll be in the Ashes as well need to recharge and then start a whole new campaign. We'll take some lessons out of this, so it's another big campaign. The Ashes is huge for Australian cricket and English cricket so we'll dust ourselves off and be ready."

In naming the efforts of Mitchell Starc, Alex Carey, the captaincy of Aaron Finch and the contributions of a reintegrated Smith and David Warner among the high points of Australia's Cup, Langer agreed that Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis had cause to analyse underwhelming tournaments. However, he defended Handscomb after a brief and unsuccessful innings in Birmingham.

"They'll both be really disappointed with the whole World Cup won't they," Langer said of Maxwell and Stoinis. "They were working really hard, giving it their best shot, but sometimes when your confidence is down a bit and its not something you can just flick a switch and you're back and firing.

"They still contributed - I think they were three and four in the fielding rankings, they've had little moments where they've had an impact. They'll be disappointed, there's a few guys who'll be a bit disappointed but there's been a lot more positives than negatives I think.

"Pete came in for one game, he came in for a World Cup semi-final. He helped us win an unbelievable series in India, he helped us win five-nil [against Pakistan in UAE], and then was really, really unlucky. Then to have to come into a World Cup having not played any of the games its a really tough ask on him and it would've been for any of our players."

As for England's highly orchestrated four-year drive to the final, in marked contrast to Australia's more chaotic path, Langer echoed Finch in saying that the work of Trevor Bayliss, Eoin Morgan and company would be closely assessed for any valuable lessons. After all, the cup will no longer be Australia's to hold.

"It's a good question. The big turnabout in our fortunes over the last six months was we got really clear with what our plan was, the way we're going to play into this World Cup," Langer said. "I mentioned in the press conference the other day that David Willey told me, they almost set four years ago, this is the squad we're going to stick with, they obviously made a few little changes along the way, but you build up for that.

"We've got lots of other really good competitions and goals to achieve with white ball cricket, T20 cricket there's a World Cup coming up, and obviously Test cricket. We're coming from a certain level and we're making some improvements but we've still got plenty of improvements to make."

USA head coach Pubudu Dassanayake has abruptly resigned after just under three years in the role following a breakdown in his relationship with the USA Cricket board.

Kiran More, the former India wicketkeeper, was brought on as director of cricket in June, alongside former West Indies batsman Kieran Powell as high performance manager, to oversee the operation. They will be assisted in the interim by Pravin Amre, the former India Under-19 coach, former India spinner and recent Bangladesh spin coach Sunil Joshi, the Mumbai Indians fielding coach James Pamment and David Saker, the former Australia assistant coach.

Dassanayake had taken USA from World Cricket League Division Four in November 2016 to ODI status in April after USA secured a top-four finish at WCL Division Two in Namibia. However, ESPNcricinfo sources said that Dassanayake's relationship with the board became increasingly strained over the last year, in spite of USA's on-field success, due to his increasing influence over national team selection matters. The relationship continued to go south after the recent licensing agreement was signed between Willow TV and Times of India Group to form American Cricket Enterprises (ACE).

At a USA national team camp held in Los Angeles in June, More and 29-year-old Powell - who earlier this week was dropped from Cricket West Indies central contracts list for 2019-20 - were introduced and the pair of hires are being backed by ACE with board members split on Dassanayake's role. Dassanayake was understood to have been informed by More at the camp that all selection decisions going forward would have to go through More whereas previously Dassanayake had a heavy say in selection matters along with USA Cricket selection chairman Ricardo Powell.

A USA T20 World Cup qualifying squad was supposed to be announced shortly after the selection camp ended in June, but the announcement has been delayed by disagreements over selection between More and Dassanayake, according to sources. Dassanayake flew to England with USA Cricket administrator Wade Edwards to sit with ICC COO Iain Higgins this week in an attempt to mediate the selection issues. Higgins is due to be announced as USA Cricket chief executive at the conclusion of the World Cup.

But the issues could not be smoothed over. Dassanayake's contract, which had originally been due to end in March 2019, was extended through December 2019 to cover USA's tour of Namibia in April - where he helped lead them to ODI status - as well as keep him in charge through the T20 World Cup Qualifier in the UAE this October. However, once the ACE licensing deal was announced in May, he was not expected to be offered an extension beyond the end of 2019 even though he had just led USA to ODI status. His support within the board had waned in the last year while ACE management had expressed a desire to hire their own leadership to guide the national team.

More is now expected to have a major influence in USA national team affairs going forward. According to sources, meetings had already begun last week to find a replacement for Dassanayake in anticipation of his resignation with Joshi a prime candidate for the full-time role.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Don't hold your breath waiting for an 18-game NFL regular season unless the players' association has a major change of heart.

NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith spoke with ESPN on Friday at a union-led gathering of former players to discuss a variety of topics, including negotiations on the collective bargaining agreement, the power of players using their voices and making their own economic decisions, and of course, the topic that won't go away -- an 18-game season.

Smith confirmed that the NFL raised the idea of such a schedule in early labor negotiations, as the Wall Street Journal first reported Thursday, with indications that it isn't something he sees happening.

"I don't see an 18-game schedule -- under any circumstance -- being in the best interest of our players," Smith said. "If somebody wants to make an 18-game proposal, we'll look at it. I haven't seen anything that makes me think that it would be good for the players."

Significant questions remain about the 18/16 proposal -- which would put 18 games on teams' schedules but limit individual players to playing in a maximum of 16 of them -- including how the plan would affect wages, hours, working conditions, health and safety, quality of play and players' pensions.

Currently, players must play at least three seasons to be eligible for a pension. The union estimates the average NFL career lasts 3.4 years, but an 18-game season would drop that to 2.8 years, or just below the league requirement to be eligible for a pension.

"Fans and media discuss what would happen to ratings and revenue or whether [18 games] is a good idea or bad idea. For us, it comes down to who players are as men and is it good for us," Smith told ESPN. "If a coal miner is willing to spend more time in the hole, does it likely result in more money? Yeah. Is that a good thing for him as a person? Probably not. That's the question nobody confronts. It's easy to say it's more money. But is it good for us? The answer is no."

Also at the surface are questions like how teams would deal with how to competitively manage players on a 16-game limit over 18 games, plus how roster sizes would be affected.

"Why is it our job to figure out how to make 18 games work as players? You tell someone you're going to work longer and you figure out how to make it work? That doesn't work," Smith said. "It's not our job to put that square peg in the round hole."

Talks between the NFL and NFLPA, aimed at reaching a new CBA, are set to intensify in July to try to reach an agreement before the start of the 2019 regular season. A source tells ESPN's Josina Anderson those talks will begin Friday and go through July 19.

The current CBA expires in 2021.

There is no timeline for a new CBA getting done, Smith said, though he characterized negotiations with the NFL as "positive." Among his goals are making continued improvements in former players' benefits and engaging young fans in the game the way the NBA has with its base because of annual league-altering free-agency periods.

One of the topics that will likely be on the table in the coming week is making changes in the CBA that benefit core NFL players, the large group between the league's highest-paid players and rookies. Several potential routes exist here, such as adjusting the salary-cap minimums each team is forced to spend in hopes of getting more guaranteed money in contracts or shortening lengths/making restrictions on rookie contracts.

Both sides hope a new agreement can be reached rather than resorting to an NFL lockout like the one before the 2011 season, or a player strike like the ones that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s.

Smith is in Miami Beach for the weekend as part of the NFLPA's former player summer getaway, a link-up with retired players geared toward post-career professional development opportunities. But next week, it's back to negotiations with NFL owners to work out what he hopes is a "fair and balanced" new CBA in terms of economics and work rules.

One element that Smith was proud to see since the most recent CBA is players embracing opportunities to discuss social justice issues, whether it be Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills, Malcolm Jenkins, Ben Watson or Chris Long. But in terms of the CBA, Smith also remarked how players have increasingly used their power in the economic sphere as well.

"Le'Veon [Bell] is a perfect example. He used his power to dictate his own destiny. It's an opinion whether you agree with him, it's a fact that he chose to make a decision as a grown man," Smith said of Bell, who missed a season instead of signing a franchise tag with Pittsburgh, and now has a long-term contract with the New York Jets. "I found it disappointing that people viewed it [in] a negative way because he made the decision on the back of his work."