Match Report (Accrington)

I know it's self-indulgent to create a separate thread for my match report, but I've had a sh*t day so bare with me.

Forgot what an absolute sh*thole Accrington is. Inbred Lancashire at it's worst. Every other person seemed to be a drug addict as I walked through the town centre to get to the game. Stewards searching away fans on the way in. A drum, a flag (?!) and a plastic bottle (??!) amongst the stuff I saw get confiscated. WTF?

Twenty minutes of not very much ended with Ness clumsily giving away a penalty. He just stuck out his leg and the Accy player went over. Footballing 101! 1v0. Homer ref gave Accy a soft freekick (he was giving fouls for almost anything) and they scored via a deflection. A mixture of bad luck and bad refereeing. Good passing move for Accy brought a third goal just before half time. Players had to walk right past the edge of the away terraces to get to the changing rooms. They got plenty of 'feedback' from some of our fans as they left the field for half-time.

Second half: 4th and 5th goals were counter attacks. We controlled a bit more of the possession but didn't create a great deal to be honest. Left with 5 minutes to go, so missed their o.g. Might have well have stayed for it, as the usual Northern Rail clusterf*ck meant the train was 20+ minutes late (Northern Rail's motto is: 'We couldn't give less of a f*ck about customer service')

Train dawdled along and was 40 minutes late by the time I got back to my station, which meant I got caught in an allmighty downpour. Brought an umbrella from a store on the way home to keep dry - it broke after about 5 minutes. Got home - rain basically stopped 5 minutes later.

F*ck Football.

Probably should add.

We're going down aren't we. I know Sc*nthopre are sh*t too, but they're bound to be able to score against us given how terribly we defend. Even if we do somehow manage to win, if Southend beat a Sunderland team with nothing to play for, and if the Dons can avoid losing against relegated Bradford, then we'd be relegated anyway.

To be honest, the team doesn't deserve to stay up.

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

I know it's self-indulgent to create a separate thread for my match report, but I've had a sh*t day so bare with me.

Forgot what an absolute sh*thole Accrington is. Inbred Lancashire at it's worst. Every other person seemed to be a drug addict as I walked through the town centre to get to the game. Stewards searching away fans on the way in. A drum, a flag (?!) and a plastic bottle (??!) amongst the stuff I saw get confiscated. WTF?

Twenty minutes of not very much ended with Ness clumsily giving away a penalty. He just stuck out his leg and the Accy player went over. Footballing 101! 1v0. Homer ref gave Accy a soft freekick (he was giving fouls for almost anything) and they scored via a deflection. A mixture of bad luck and bad refereeing. Good passing move for Accy brought a third goal just before half time. Players had to walk right past the edge of the away terraces to get to the changing rooms. They got plenty of 'feedback' from some of our fans as they left the field for half-time.

Second half: 4th and 5th goals were counter attacks. We controlled a bit more of the possession but didn't create a great deal to be honest. Left with 5 minutes to go, so missed their o.g. Might have well have stayed for it, as the usual Northern Rail clusterf*ck meant the train was 20+ minutes late (Northern Rail's motto is: 'We couldn't give less of a f*ck about customer service')

Train dawdled along and was 40 minutes late by the time I got back to my station, which meant I got caught in an allmighty downpour. Brought an umbrella from a store on the way home to keep dry - it broke after about 5 minutes. Got home - rain basically stopped 5 minutes later.

F*ck Football.

Sorry, but LOL.

Re: your 2nd post - it does all stink of relegation but unbelievably I'd say we are still even money to stay up. Scunny are - on paper - equally as shit as us; Bradford appear to want to win games all of a sudden; Sunderland might just have too much class for Sarfend, even if they play their rezzies.

I can, however, see us losing to Scunny and Dons staying up on 49 points.

How was your free pint off accrington ?

Cheers FTB.

Ridiculous. 4 weeks ago I figured we were all but safe. Looking at the table today, we WERE all but safe, we've just capitulated. Toss up on the final day. I was invited to the game by a mate, but I'm off up the line for Exeter beer weekend - a much better use of anyone's time.