It started off pretty dodgy, they got a player from their club that was going to play in the game after ours to referee, which seemed alright until he called half time 6 minutes early, not to mention he had to swap with some other guy half way through the second half to go and get changed for his game…
The first half was really tight, they were playing pretty well, but it went 0-0 into the break. About 10 minutes into the second half Billy did an awesome run down the left, around a bunch of guys, kicked it between a couple of players and scored. We got a bit excited and thought that we might be able to pull through with a win, but not long later, they manages to get a lucky header in. We got fired up and managed to get another goal, but they got an equalizer when Trent twisted his ankle and went down to the ground, I tried to cover a bit for him, but it left a hole and they were able to score from the other side of the goals.
The next time they came in for a goal, Bob did a good save and stopped the ball from going in, but wasn’t able to get a good hold of it, fumbled it and went to jump on the ball, but it rolled out from under him and went in. If the referee was a good, neutral ref, then, in my opinion, he would have called that as a penalty when there was contact from their players with our keeper. We were a little bit disheartened, still desperately trying to get another goal, but somehow they managed to get another only a few minutes later.
There were 6 goals in the space of about 20 minutes, which we were hoping meant that we would still be able to get another 2 goals, but they started to waste time by kicking it as far out as they can when they got the ball. We “got another goal” in the last couple of minutes of the game, but it was called offside because one of our players was in the offside position, but he didn’t interfere with play, so I think that was just the ref being biased, but I could be wrong, but it still wouldn’t have made a difference to the outcome; Dudley won, 4-2, which I can live with, because they were the team at the top of the table for almost the whole season (I think for all but 3 of 14 rounds, or something like that).
Most of the team went across the road to Dudley pub for a couple of drinks, but, for the second week in a row, I forgot to bring my wallet, but this time they asked for ID, so I just had a coke… Which was probably for the best, because last week I wasn’t able to drive home…
