Why releasing code without unit tests as deadlines loom is the same as resorting to playing the 'long ball' in football when you’re losing

At the last developer developer developer day (DDD7) a few months ago I heard Ian Cooper talk about developers who stopped practicing TDD or even worst still stop writing unit tests altogether as the deadlines approached.
I’ve just seen Seville who are second in the Spanish Football League resort to playing long balls that wouldn’t [...]