Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Yeah I'll bring a CD along for you.

I know Beeny will want to have his own say but I saw the whole event whereas Beeny only saw his part of it so here's what I saw:-

We were 2-1 up, deservedly so, they weren't really getting much of a sniff up front, not getting the ball out of their half very often and when they did our defence soaked it up with ease, it was getting fairly relentless and must have been very frustrating for their forwards.

So when the ball did go forwards, their striker collected it but Beeny stuck a foot in, the ball got tangled between them a bit but, as had happened throughout the second half, Beeny came away with it. He took one step away and instead of chasing him to try and get the ball back their striker swung his foot wildly in a "I'm too knackered and pissed off to play this stupid game anymore" and caught Beeny's trailing foot.

I would have thought the ref would probably have given him a talking to, maybe a booking (deserved a booking) but before he had the chance to decide (he was fucking slow but didn't get a chance to be slow in this case) Beeny stopped, picked up the ball, turned round and through it at the offending striker. You pretty much knew at this point that Beeny was coming off. Luckily, their striker also over-reacted and threw proper punches at Beeny. Crap punches, but proper ones.

It certainly wasn't your typically football handbags situation, he was swinging for him. Beeny finally found his sense and turned to walk away and Matty caught the guys arm as he was swinging again. Don't think he'd have done much damage if he'd caught Beeny, his technique sucked.

Chris Miller said that apparently he stank of booze. Not sure whether he meant their striker or Matt.

And that was it, they both got sent off but then the ref gave them a free kick for the whole incident, apparently forgetting that it was their guy's wild swing that caused the incident in the first place. That made me angry, particularly as it gave them a shot on goal. Smurfy collected it comfortably.

What was wierd was that after that we moved Macca back to right mid and Andy Miller back into midfield, leaving Lewis alone up front and for some reason they seemed to spark and came at us the most dangerously they had done all game. We both had 10 men but for some reason you'd have thought we were a man down. They even hit the post, which wasn't good as that would have given them an undeserved draw if it had gone in.

But it didn't and we won and on we go.