Sunday, January 28, 2007

Really, genuinely bad luck today boys. The more I think about it the worse the ref's decision was - if the ball hadn't hit Ben's hands it would have slammed off his face and still not gone in, so a penalty is a harsh enough punishment for that and a sending off is just wrong. But take that out of the equation and we were the best team by quite a way. They only had five shots on target in the whole game whereas we completely bossed them in the first half.

To go 3 down in such bizarre fashion and still finish the first half 4-3 up was great to see. If we'd sparked out of that funny moment sooner we could have ridden with the bad ref decision but sometimes games just go against you like that - the main thing is to remember that we outplayed them for long periods of the game and even when we were a man down, a goal down and virtually 3 at the back they still didn't trouble Smurf. Whereas we scored 4 quality goals, played some quality football and had other chances, including hitting the woodwork. Shows what we're capable of.