We're finding out that League Two sides, whatever their limitations going forward can protect their own goal once they're ahead
It's been the story of our season. We've only lost one game where we've scored first (And won all of them bar a draw with Morecambe, and a 2-1 defeat away at Bolton!) and we've not taken a single point when the opposition has scored first.
As for the referee, well what can you say? His inspiration seemed to be the home crowd & he apportioned free kicks on the basis of the noise they made - a kind of X-Factor popularity poll meets League Two football. The penalty that wasn't given was simply unbelievable, Ritchie having cut inside, left the left back for dead, drew the keeper & went past him & the keeper then made contact with his ankle. This was enough to prevent Ritchie being able to shoot & the ball was cleared. Next time son, go down like you've been shot.
Funnily enough, a lot of Macc fans saw the referee as trying to protect the 'big club with big name manager'. Your No 39 was a very lucky boy to still be on the pitch after a crazy late-challenge/elbow to the neck of Ross Draper, a good five seconds after he'd played the ball. There were a couple of others at the time that I wasn't happy with.
You reminded me of Manchester United though. Wore red and surrounded the ref moaning al the time.
As for the penalty. I don't know if you've got it on the highlights, but if it's a foul by Veiga on Ritchie, then it's a foul on the lad who put the ball through on Hewitt in the first place. Ritchie looked offside from my position, too. By the absolute letter of the law, it should have been a free kick before the ball even got into the box. Perhaps the ref realised he should have given the first foul? Either way, ultimately, even if he just got it wrong both times, he eventually got it right(ish)
