Mmmm, feel slightly better after that.
Once again a match ruined by the official who wanted to be the centre of
attention. He was booed off by the Sheffield United fans at half time and
he was errm jeered of by Albion fans at the end.
Talk about a game of two halves (well I guess all games have two halves but you know what I mean!). We dominated the first half and Oatway had a brilliant first 45 minutes.
We harried United, we attacked well, we defended soundly, we battled, we
fought, we deserved to be 2-0 up. Harts diving header from a peach of a
cross by Barrett, then Barrett a great header from a brilliant ball chase and
cross from Zamora.
Half time came at the wrong time, we were on fire.
Second half, mmmmm, we sat back, defended well for the first 20 minutes but sat deeper and deeper and let United play for the first time.
The first goal was a good strike but weak as everyone backed off him, Lesson learnt? No! A few minutes later, oh a player is running at us lets back off, oh no its 2-2.
After that I think people expected us to crumble! The referee then decided to
make sure his boys won.
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Kuipers spilt the ball and made sure he put it out for a corner as Watson and Asaba closed in. No appeals but the Ref gave the penalty.
The crowd were very volatile, then to make it worse Prosser clearly cheats and gives a joke penalty to kill the game off. By now loads of very angry fans are down the front, a couple of boards went down, the Stewards called the Police, they all rushed over batons drawn and PC number 86 even released his pepper spray randomly at supporters as he panicked and lost it totally.
The tw*t in charge of them was running up and down baton out egging for a chance to slap a few people. I believe some of these were South Yorkshire Police who travelled down with the large Sheffield United hooligan element.
It's a shame they didn't stick to what they had come down for as after the match a large Sheffield United firm ambushed Finnegans outside Brighton station, putting all the windows through and throwing bottles and rocks at everybody inside, and there were no police about at all.
Days like Saturday make watching football a joke. Prosser wanted the
headlines and got them. He is not fit to referee a Sunday match, let alone
Nationwide League Division one.
I hope he never referees another match.
Sadly we got no points for a game we played well in for 70 minutes. We must
win next week.
Mark R