It’ll all be about ‘the perfect send-off’ for Peter Taylor now. All about the last-minute winner that allowed Taylor to sign off with a win.
Not about the ten, and then nine men of County who battled for over an hour with a numerical disadvantage thanks to a clown of a referee.
Maybe I’m just bitter?
Maybe. Or maybe the referee disallowed a perfectly good County goal, sent off Adam Griffin for ‘handball’, awarded Bradford a penalty, then sent off Ryan Doble for a ‘deliberate elbow’, then added 5 minutes of stoppage time onto the 90 minutes and allowed the home side to grab a 94th minute winner against the nine men.
Mr Kettle. He even had the audacity to yellow card Danny O’Donell after the full-time whistle had gone for complaining.
County fell behind to a looping header from one of them, before Paul Turnbull pounced on a loose ball against the woeful Bantams and drove home an equaliser.
County were down to ten when Griffin was dismissed for an apparent handball on the line which the referee didn’t give but the linesman did from a good distance away. Obviously he’s been taking regular trips to SpecSavers.
Matty Glennon saved the following penalty, and ten-man County went ahead through loanee Ryan Doble, as he rounded the ‘keeper and rolled home.
Doble was then sent off himself for an apparent deliberate elbow as City piled on the pressure. Well, pumped about 50 balls aimlessly towards the County goal.
Nine-man Hatters looked like holding out, but in the 75th minute the hosts equalised from a set-piece, and in the 5th minute of injury time (which even the PA announcer sounded embarrassed to announce) Gareth Evans deflected in the winner.
So the game that relegates us to non-league football is the game in which we put in an outstanding battling performance, yet get truly robbed by a complete disgrace of a referee.
Let’s hope they don’t make officials that bad in the Blue Square Premier.
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They say when your down there you dont get a lot of luck, I’m just worried what affect this will have on the players, time to roll up the sleeves and go again next weekend. Come On you Bluemen!!!
Gutted,that’s just the way our luck is.
Listened to the whole 95 minutes (!) on Pure and felt so gutted especially for he County fans who travelled. If we had started the season with this squad we would have been safely positioned in mid-table. As it is we are down now unless we go on a promotion forum winning spree. Of course, next season it will be a completely different squad for Mathias (or Horesefield if you believe the takeover rumours). As fans we have to stick together. Stick out our chest and do not hide. We will be back. Maybe 2015 is the year we regain our league status?
The Conference wont know what has hit them when the County fans come knocking on their doors. Thats if we can maintain the level of vocal support we had at Bradford. It was absolutely magnificent. We sang our hearts out for 90, sorry 95 minutes, and it was all positive support, no boos just the best fans in the world getting behind the team no matter what.
Also listened on Pure, absolutely gutted. 11 men playing for the shirt, how the hell we didn’t get a result from that I’ll never know. Again listening we have the best fans in the world, what a bunch, amazing. Ah well hopefully a result against Cheltenham.
Looks like the writing is now on the wall. It’s no good thinking that there may just be a chance that we will escape relegation. This team may just have been put together too late. I hope that some of these players that have been loaned into the club of late may just give county a chance for next season and sign on for the forth coming campain, that is if we still have a team. Rumlings have it that all is still not well behind the scenes. Why have we heard nothing from the local council???? The last word was that they were planning a new ground for both county and sharks. Why the silence? Looks like we will still be here at Edgely park paying through the nose for the so called privilege for the forceable future.