Haven't bothered to read back through, and I've just got back in from drowning my sorrows at the pub (
) so apologies if I repeat anything/flog a dead horse.
So proud to be a Swindon fan after that display. First half was shite. Second half, with Kmacs very quick and insightful subs, was much, much better. The periods where we played the ball on the floor led to our goals, and the players can be nothing but proud as to how well they put their shifts in today. There were mistakes, yes, and people will be quick to villify certain players (Roberts/Storey/Luongo/whoever), but they all worked their socks off today, and you can't but help feeling sorry for them, as they have felt sorry for us (see various town player's twitter feeds for apologies/disappointment etc.)
Ref was fucking shite (and had a really shit moustache). Sending Byrne off for being shoved over by Donaldson onto the ball was a fucking ridiculous decison, especially considering the cheating that the Brentford players insisted on perpetuating throughout the entire game. If there was one team outside the Premiership that I would call 'cheating fucking cuntbags that sucked shite through a hose', it would definitely be Brentford. Simply on ungentlemanly conduct charges, they should have had players sent off three or four times. Donaldson deliberately placing himself in front of our centre backs and then backing into them, forcing them to stand their ground, and then appealing for a foul was such a blatant and repeated offence I am fucking pissed that the ref and linesmen didn't catch it and send him off for being a cheating bastard attempting to subvert the laws of the game.
That last minute Flint header is something I will never forget. I nearly knocked myself out jumping up and down in celebaration in my (low ceilinged) house.
We have had zero luck since the year 2013 started, and I will wager that it's only going to get worse this summer, with huge sweeping clearance sales of players, and any future redevelopment being put on hold. But, as a Swindon fan, I will, weirdly, cherish this loss for the passion and desire the players put onto the pitch, for the 1800 ST holders who turned up at 7am in the morning so they could go to West London and experience this.
We are Swindon. We have belief, we have passion, we have pride. And we will make it, one day.
On a more personal note, I am loathe to say it, but I hope Brentford win at Wembley, because if Yeovil go up I will never hear the fucking end of it. I wore my town shirt in the pub with pride tonight, and will continue to do so always. We were written off by so many (including the Sky commentary/pundit team, who were practically circle jerking about Brentford/Donaldson the entire match) , but we took it right down to the wire, and we can only have a deep sense of acheivement and pride in that.
We may not have played our best today, and our team may not have been as strong as it has been in recent years, but I feel we were cheated, and, in the future (I hope), we can look back on this day as one of the true epics.
EDIT: I retain the right to take some of this back tomorrow.
