It was kind of gutting but very encouraging at the same time - we flew at Turnpike (4th in div one) from the kick off, were all over them like a rash and then with their first attack they scored. Soft goal too, bit annoying, but we weren't over-worried cos we were playing so well. That was why going 2 down minutes later was a kick in the nuts. Then going a 3rd down minutes later again was starting to take the piss.

Luckily Gareth took a gamble and their goalkeeper screwed up leaving him with an easy finish and then it was our turn for shock and awe as Matty scored a goal very much like Rooney's second, then Miller (who had a great game on his own up front, really caused em a lot of problems and took a string of really dangerous corners) curled one in from a tight angle and then caused a defender to skew the ball into his own net to put us 4-3 up just before half time. Ben even had a chance to make it 5 before the break but the goalie was in the right place.

But then midway through the second half they've had a corner and taken a shot from point blank range straight at Ben's face. Out of instinct he's brought his hand up and it hit it. A lot of ref's would have waved it away for ball to hand but this one gave a penalty. Fair enough I suppose - I know we'd have been screaming for a penalty if it had been up the other end - but then he sent Ben off! Told him that he should have used his face! Cunt! Course that wound us up a bit and they scored the pen and then scrambled in a shit goal to take the lead. We were down to 10 then and a bit knocked off our stride so Crabbeman came closest with one off the bar.

I had a chat with the ref afterwards and he said that it would only be a one game ban, not six, which was good news I suppose, but he still got it way wrong to send him off. Smurfy got booked in the ensuing pandemonium and then had a bit of a fracas with one of their strikers - really thought he was gonna go but luckily not, could have been disastrous.

Disappointing that they've only had 5 shots on target in the whole game but they've all gone in, and that for the first time in a while we made a substitution that gave us pretty much nothing, but really pleased with our character to come back and the fact that for 90% of the game we've outplayed a team who are doing well in the division above. We were the better team by far, Turnpike only looked like they were in the same league when we were down to 10 men.

They won't be looking forward to playing us next season if we go up.

Anyway, to sum up, no.

Some weird results in the league as well. Updated table below:-