Is
anyone else getting as sick as us at the moaning petty moron's gobbing
off? Grow up Warnock and just get on with being an half decent football
manager and stop embarrassing your fans.
Muzzy
Izzet was missing due to the 6 stitches in his knee and Frank Sinclair
was also absent (probably still in a nightclub in Chesea celebrating
promotion). Gerry Taggart was on the bench with Billy McKinlay,
so Matt Heath got a start.
The
Sheff Utd fans welcomed Brian Deane back warmly and he repaid them
by scoring after only 4 minutes!
Tricky
Trev Benjamin did some nifty work out on the left wing, managing
to elbow Peter Ndlovu in the head in the process. D'Urso in his
first inept decision of the game, played on, and after a couple
of passes to Stewart and Dickov the ball came back to Trev who sent
in a great curling cross that found Brian Deane on the far post.
A low volley was driven in. 1-0 City. Far too easy.
Mr
Warnock was having kittens on the touchline already.
The
game was a bit rough and there were plenty of dodgy tackles going
on. Windass elbowed Rogers in the mouth in front of us but D'Urso
of course didn't see it. Windass and Warnock went ballistic as if
Rogers was faking it. Now Rogers may be a bit rubbish now and then
but he's never been a cheat and doesn't go down very often.
So
City fans not only had Warnock to taunt "Warnock, what's the
score" but also laughed at Windass every time he stuffed up
from then on in.
Ten
minutes later we were going ballistic. Though not as ballistic as
Impey. Michael Tonge got the ball about half way and legged it down
the left wing. The ball appeared to go out of play down our end
and Impey stopped trying to tackle. But the lino didn't flag, Tonge
put a low cross in and Asaba beat Walker to make it 1-1.
Impey
ran the length of the pitch to chase the lino and had to be pulled
back by one of the City bench who ran after him. Impey was booked
for his trouble. Moral of this tale Impey...play to the bloody whistle
and don't chase the linesmen and get a needless yellow card.
Things
didn't improve. Scowy nearly gave a penalty away, yellow cards were
flashed all over the place for our players, but not theirs, and
there were only a few chances on goal for either team.
Half
time saw Former City and Blade "Legend" Alan Birchenall
(who?) doing the draw. Don't know where they dug him up from. (Don't
forget, 10.30 on Sunday to help him collect money!)
Second
half got even worse. As the photo shows above Big Trev was rugby
tackled at one point but still D'Urso didn't get his card out for
them. But he did for us. Again and again. Callum Davidson picked
up his second yellow...when he had won the ball. He plodded off
the field and it was starting to look more likely that we would
lose the game.
Stewart
and Rankine got into a barny and both got booked. Dickov got booked
for encroaching on a freekick (couldn't you see D'Urso just desperately
waiting to award that one eh?) and City fans were witnessing a totally
disgraceful refereeing performance.
Both
teams hit the woodwork but as the game wore on Sheff Utd used their
extra man, and D'Urso, and pushed City deeper and deeper. Adams
put on Taggart, McKinlay and Wright and screamed at Tommy Wright
to get stuck in and chase balls down and not to be so deep. Tommy
responded well and pressured Kenny in goal several times.
City
were defending like troopers but City fans were cringing when 4
minutes of extra time was shown by the 4th official. Most of that
had come from where they'd been elbowing us in the head. Sheff Utd
pushed and pushed and you would have put money on them scoring.
City fans were whistling like mad and screaming at D'Urso, but he
played on and on and yup, of course, they scored. In the 6th minute
of added on time. Asaba again.
D'Urso
immediately blew the whistle for the end of the game at the restart
and the City players dejectedly clapped the away fans who responded
passionately.
Thank
god we were already promoted. D'Urso probably just robbed us of
a shot at the Championship. The man is a cheat and a disgrace. All
3 goals probably shouldn't have been allowed and the authorities
really need to look closely at that performance.
City
|
STATS
|
Blades
|
4
|
Shots
On Target
|
12
|
2
|
Shots
Off Target
|
4
|
17
|
Fouls
(Conceded)
|
18
|
6
|
Corners
|
11
|
5
|
Yellow
Cards
|
2
|
1
|
Red
Cards
|
0
|
|