Echoing comments on Facebook -
a) a really enjoyable (if piggin cold!) evening, two teams both playing the right way, despite the best efforts of the officials (another ref who doesn't see offside flags - if they can't get the basics right....
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b) Hardly anyone in the ground saw how it started, as the ball was on the halfway line - the person with the best view was in fact Ms Rashid, and although she came over to assist the ref (as did the other lino) I didn't see her actually speak to him.
The end was certainly Horan with Wellers in a headlock and the latter trying to free himself. But whoever did what to whom - and the consensus was that, if he didn't see it either (and I don't believe he did), the common sense reaction from the ref would have been a talking-to or two yellows (though hey, it might have carried on on the pitch rather than off it!) - we face four games without a key striker (and Chester without their captain and one of their most experienced players), hopefully two of them might be cup games...
c) Had a really good chat with two Chester fans at half-time, talking a lot of sense. Don't think they'd have been too disappointed to lose out in the end, less fixture congestion for the losers... (and BTW I can't make SPS Saturday week so I'll be taking in a stronger Chester eleven at Stourbridge in the Trophy, will be interesting to compare)
d) Yes, Amani did really well, the composure and confidence with which he put his goal away reflected the confidence he must have derived from playing in a successful Youth Team
e) OCD re the moaners I'm afraid, yet again - good article in
When Saturday Comes about it recently (can't find the article online but I brought copies of it to some people at the SA meeting last week) - every club has them. Wish they'd stay home, we don't need "supporters" like that. Moaning last night started at 1-0
UP with our pre-match planning wrecked by the red cards - and against a very good away team. I ask you...
Oh, and if you're going to be an amateur coach from the sidelines, shout something helpful like "man on", "shoulders", or "time", not "WATCH THE NUMBER ELEVEN" which means absolutely nothing to a player behind whom the number eleven is standing....
figure though! 
