[officialtony]

Yes, you did the right thing. Your partner did enough damage on his own. For you to try to
" overturn " or otherwise change things would only have created more problems for you and him. It sounds like you did the best you could as quickly as you could. This guy will learn that he can control a game in many other ways without taking the hard road.

Bottom Line - back your partner at all times publicly.

There are some who will toss a coach for using anything that resembles cussing. If we provoke him to that state, is he wrong or are we? There is NO justification for cussing by coaches or competitors, but we certainly don't need to drive them there.
Just my humble opinion.