Post by davethegrave on Apr 7, 2019 22:46:24 GMT
The above para was how I opened for the H&W match and it remains here because it is relevant to yesterday as it was to the previous Saturday. Another awful refereeing performance where a player is booked for alleged time wasting (where the hell did that come from - best ask pinewalker, who appears to know?) yet another can swing two punches and only get a yellow then cuff another opposition player after and end up only leaving the field to be substituted, Luke Garrard's best management decision of the afternoon. Easty gets booked for a foul but earlier a similar challenge is ignored because advantage was played. Dean B gets booked for a raised boot but a BW player is allowed to body slam a SU player with no card shown. And so it goes on. U's are up to 90 yellows now and there is no doubt in my mind that there is some sort of conspiracy going on between the complete cretins purporting to be NL referees. It's a disgrace and while it continues I reserve the right to call the perpetrators out in the manner I (and a fair few others) did yesterday. That wasn't incompetence it was blatant bias to the home side.
The guy who wrote the nlp report gave him 7 but then the reporter thought we were playing for a draw as the game closed out; because BW had so much attacking play in the second half? Not a clue, mate, not a clue.
As for the match, U's had Jon B at left back and Tom B right and the makeshift defence did well save for a couple of hairy moments in the first half one in which Jamie B stood up well to save with his shoulder. U's first goal came from Gime T having acres to cross low for Harry B to arrive and net. BW's goal came from a fine run by one wing back to cross for the other to volley home a well taken goal. U's winner, for the umpteenth time this season arrived in the last minute with a quick corner routine involving James D and the impressive Nesit B who demonstrated a fine array of passing with both feet for the former to plant the ball on Easty's head who did the business from six yards.
The reaction from the U's fans was brilliant and the impromptu chant of "F the Wood" unusual but borne out of a collective sense of injustice for what had been endured before. It was great for the players who must have felt like they were up against twelve men throughout. Well done to them all for a sticking it out.
A victory that meant this match considered by some as less meaningful than Lewes v Merstham (wtf?) a couple of divisions below put U's back with an outside chance of the play-offs.
Interesting to read Danny Hunter's four page update in the prog (that's a page for every 100 BW fans in attendance yesterday). Things don't appear to be all that great at Meadow Park, although Arsenal's apparent influence is turning it into a very tidy stadium.
Onto next week's invasion from the east. I wonder what clown will turn up in the middle for that?
I wasn't there yesterday so I cannot say how we played. But the 3 Counties radio commentator continually said that it looked like Sutton were happy for a point and Butler wasting time.
Also I agree that the referee against Havant, like so many times at home this season, was inconsistent. Maybe the league have got something against us.
