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Hallam Inbreds 3 – 2 SUMHC 4th XI
Scorers: Barney(f), Redwings(PC)

A horrible day in a horrible place with horrible people

The 4ths suffered a crucial blow in their promotion chase with a shock 3-2 loss to bitter rivals and local peasants, Hallam 3rds. The away side started strongly and took the lead through a great finish, and first BUCS goal, from BARNEY, who deflected the ball home from close range after a flowing move down the right. For such an important derby clash, a choice of good, strong, neutral umpires would have been a blatantly obvious choice, but our less-educated neighbours hadn’t thought of this and the two simpletons who had taken the task gradually ruined the game for Uni. The ‘umpires’ blew everything, and were overly harsh in and around the D, leading to Hallam getting too many scoring opportunities, and despite a sterling effort in goal from Catpiss, it was some of these terrible, uninformed decisions that eventually cost the boys in black and gold the match. Hallam levelled midway through the half through a well-taken, but fortunate deflection from a free hit, but the 4s pressed forward once again only to be stopped in their tracks by an absolutely preposterous decision that sent them in a goal down at the break. The Idiot officiating at the uni end awarded the home side a Penalty Stroke after a regulation tackle in the D by Dale Winton, who was green carded for his very justified protests, and a fat 30 year old put in the flick to give Hallam the lead.

Still bemused by this ridiculous decision, the team started slowly and matters weren’t helped by the dismissal of sweeper Captain Planet for foolishly contending a ludicrously awarded Penalty Corner. While down to ten men, Hallam scored their third from a deflected free-hit from the left that travelled through numerous Uni attempted flat sticks. Things looked bleak for the 4s, but the reintroduction of Planet from the sin bin and the hard work of debutant Jupiler and ever-present Jailbait in midfield won them a lot of possession and their time around the D led to the award of a number of Penalty Corners. Despite this pressure, Uni just couldn’t find the target with Village Idiot, Redwings and Jailbait the main offenders in missing the target when it seemed easier to score. Eventually the 4ths did find the net again with a text-book Penalty Corner routine being slapped home by REDWINGS at the left post. It was all Uni now and Jailbait had a shot cleared off the line and Planet saw a reverse-stick effort stopped by feet whilst goal ward bound, only to see the umpire ignore cries for a flick that would have been much more justified than the one awarded in the first half. To their credit the away side didn’t abate their assault and continued to fight till the end but constant whistle-blowing from the cretins in charge, and some horrific last-ditch fouls from the Hallam defence and midfield prevented an equaliser. The final whistle was greeted by despair from the Uni ranks, knowing they may well be out of the promotion race and now need to concentrate on beating Leeds Met this Wednesday.

MOTM: Catpiss – Some great saves kept the Uni in the match at times

DOTD: Captain Planet - Needless yellow card for showing frustrations at ‘umpiring.’

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