SteveTreacle
Vital 1st Team Regular
We’ve got a lot “better” this season in the darks arts both in and off of the pitch with our bench giving the officials and opposing bench the hair drier treatment for 90 minutes. However, I think it’s fair to say that Wimbledon have out cheated and bullied us twice this season and gone away with 6 ugly points with pretty much every decision going their way mainly through their players conning the referee, being better at the dark arts than us and the bench outshoutng even Evans and Raynor. How Piggott didn’t get at least a booking, I’ll never know - repeated fouling and elbowing coupled with number of clear dives and play acting. There was a hugely clear handball from the shaggy hair haired diving full back for the second goal about 5 yards from the ref and two yards in front now of the linesman on the GR side - the linesman got dogs abuse afterwards for it and the fact that he saw the need to turn around to the GRS and slap his chest afterwards, I think speaks volumes. There was also a clear red card for a hugely late studs up tackle on fuller. Also, Max was clearly elbowed for hind injury - questionable whether it was deliberate or not, but it was in the box so should’ve been a penalty. Surprised we didn’t make more of that. We scored from the corner anyway, however it cost us our captain and key defender for the last 10 minutes and possibly the match. There was also a decent shout for a penalty from Hanlon. It would’ve been slightly soft, but given the decisions that went against us, it was definitely a 50/50 shout that should have gone our way to even things up.
As I say, we’ve come on leaps and bounds in terms of game management and cheating, but Wimbledon are the one team to outdo us in that front this season, so we’ll have to up the stakes against them next season.
