SC 1 (ref aided) Rovers 0

The Mexican Hitler in the middle of the park and his counter-part linesman on the far side of the field missed a good game of football yesterday. The little man in the middle was a joke. I think he thought he was in charge of a rugby game rather then a football game. He missed so many poor tackles it was unbelievable. He just had no concept of how to be a ref but he acted like one. At one point telling Seamus to hurry up in the first half (threatened to book him) when it was our corner kick and Seamus had gone and got the ball. It was hard to be worse then this little man but the linesman on the far side somehow managed to usurp him. Perhaps he felt like Napoleon in this power struggle of the Muppet's. His first unbelievable mistakes occurred twice in the 2nd half when he called Seamus offside for coming back from an offside position. This is a true statement if he does this when the ball is played, but he managed to tell both Seamus and I that it doesn't matter when the ball is played. If that is the case, how does a player ever become onside? Next up the entire ball did roll over the line when Santa Clara got one of their few shots on target, which resulted in the only goal of the match. Again, what was he watching. Lastly, two yards away from him, three minutes to go, I got completely hacked down and he waives play on. Awful stuff.

In saying all that the game should have been well out of sight by the time these events occurred. The Rovers had a make shift back line that excelled all afternoon and had the Rovers failed to capitalize on a minimum of 7 clear opportunities and a handful of other half chances SC would have been well beaten.

The first half was a touch closer then the second half. The Rovers passing wasn't great in the first half, lead by some sloppy passing but the Rovers still had two great chances, both falling to the Rovers front men who were doing their best Robbie Keane impressions. Paulie played in Bryce who should have finished it and the reverse was true moments later. Curt had a good shot as well in the first half while a Brodie corner was headed just wide by Matty. Their were some danger moments for the Rovers in the first half but KC didn't have a great deal to do.

The misses kept adding up in the 2nd half and you perhaps thought the Rovers might pay the ultimate penalty and sure enough they did. Bryce and Paulie were causing the SC defense all kind of problems with seamus playing just behind them. They just couldn't cope. Their goalie was the clear man of the match and he has also improved his kicking tremendously.

Gibbsy got sent off with 3 minutes to go and frankly you couldn't blame him. He was arse fucked in the center of the park and they almost scored from it. Then we witnessed the tackle on me he had enough and told the ref what he thought...

SC did the double of the Rovers this year but this was a farce

MOM: Entire game their keeper for us Jon with honorable mention to Kieran and matty. Jon was everywhere...played fantastic
Ref: Best thing they did all day was send the lino on our side over with the player passes, sending either of the two would have been a huge mistake.