Gerry Herdenson said:Interseting post TA, How are things at home?
Didn't this kind of incident happened to your team (Polonia that is) when you guys played City FC Blaze, last year.So according to your suggestion Mike Masi shouldn't be playing then, Is he the big tough guy you have, who can no accept anybody touching him or he would punch the bagger? Did he tried to take the head out of an opponent? Maybe the buds in City FC Blaze could refresh our memory.
The idiot, who is no longer on our team, who started the fight between us and Polonia spat in the face of a player. I don't believe it was Masi who was kickingthe head of our guy on th ground but one of the subs. The ref never saw the kicking incident so nothing ever came of that. As for the fight part of the game, evryone got what they deserved..
I was at the AFC-Surrey gane until a few minutes before the bru-ha-ha broke out. The penalty in the first half was weak and shouldn't have been given but after it was missed i thought, good, it won't get stupid now. Both teams were guilty of some bad tackles and the like but it seemed from where i was that the AFC players kept whining and whining and whining about every call, even if they got the call. I saw 2 claims for penalties by AFC and one was a dive in my opinion while the other was tough to tell if it was handled all the way at the sideline.
The ref, looked a little over his head and i had seen him do a 1st div. game a few weeks ago and he wasn't very good in that one either. He probably was in over his head on this one especially considering the 2 teams involved and their different styles of play.
AFC was having more possession for the portion of the game i watched but wasn't very dangerous as they seemed to want to dribble the ball by every Surrey defender and past the goalie. Very few shots were taken when the oppurtunity arose and those that were looked more likely to hit 64th then the net.
I though that it was likely AFC were going to get into card trouble and a probable sending off due to all the yap at the ref, from the players, fans and it looked like the coaching staff. The Surrey players didn't continually whine to the ref after every foul and no matter who is reffing this is going to effect your decisions. Both teams had some awful tackles that i saw and i left just after Niall got his yellow in the second and looked to through a punch or push the guy away but missed either way. The ref was on top of it and was right there but the AFC guys were all over him trying to get Niall tossed. I'm not sure what could have been done to stop this fight from happening. Cloverdale Park, at least, has the fence around the pitch so fans running onto the pitch is much less likely to happen and I don't know who could have controlled the game as a ref and kept control either. ( i talked to a FVSL ref for the first 30 minutes of game on sideline and he thought things were going ok, other than the amount of moan.)
