MATCH REPORT
City vs. Reading
This was going to be a bad day from the start. You all know the feeling that things won't get better. To start with it was raining and so the MCIVTA FC game against Reading was off. So off to the game in the pi**ing rain, I was half expecting it to be called off.
The ground staff had done a wonderful job with the pitch and the seemed to be no standing water. City kicked off towards the Platt Lane end. We went straight on the attack and won a corner. As it was a set piece we did our usual trick of bugger all. After that the game went downhill rapidly. We cant blame the weather or the pitch, we can only blame the gutless players who take their wage home and count it.
The game turned out to be the most spectacular débâcle I have witnessed. Joe Royle should not have paid the players for that performance.
After about 20 minutes Tiatto and Reading's No. 7 got involved in a bit of Queensburys. The result: their player booked and Danny sent off. Come on ref., equal punishments for that should have been given out. Both players were involved and both should have walked. After that their No. 7 got some of the worst stick I have seen. City should have upped their game and taken Reading apart but what did they do? They tried to break the legs of the Reading player.
Only one good chance came in the first half; Wiekens from a corner. His vicious drive swerved and hit the post. The ref. blew for everything that Reading called for. There were several dubious offside decisions and dodgy free kicks. Half time: 0-0.
Second half much of the same. I'm too pi**ed off to comment on it. Apart from a sloppy goal coming from a corner which I didn't see that well.
Weaver 9 - Kept us in the game with some brilliant saves.
Wiekens 9 - Never missed a thing.
The rest 2 - Bloody awful.
Horlock, our stand-in captain was a disgrace. 1-0 down and his head is down and he is staring at his feet. If the captain feels that way what does that do to the rest of the team?
Craig Russell came on for the last 10 minutes and should have been on from the start. He was the only forward who seemed to know where the goal was. Goater is crap. He can't turn or jump and how the hell he has scored 10 goals defies logic.
And finally a comment on the ref. and linesmen. The ref. is the worst I have seen in a long time and a pearl of wisdom came from the bloke sat next to me: "Bring back George Courtney". Things must be bad if he feels that way. Do the linesmen know what the offside rule is? If so bloody use it.
I have never felt such disgrace to be a Blue, so what have I done this morning, got my ticket for Saturday. I must be mad.
