Dammit

By: Stephen | March 1st, 2009

FULL-TIME: BLADES 2 BLUES 1

Blades: Paddy Kenny, Greg Halford (Leigh Bromby 79), Gary Naysmith, David Cotterill, Chris Morgan (C), Matthew Kilgallon, Darius Henderson (Craig Beattie 73), Danny Webber (Jamie Ward 77), Nick Montgomery, Stephen Quinn, Kyle Naughton. Unused subs: Arturo Lupoli, Brian Howard.

Goals: Webber 43, Cotterill 83 (pen)

Bookings: Montgomery 16, Quinn 48, Naughton 90

Blues: Maik Taylor, Stephen Carr, Radhi Jaidi, Franck Queudrue, David Murphy, Scott Sinclair (Gary McSheffrey 70), Lee Carsley (C), Keith Fahey, Hameur Bouazza, Carlos Costly (Cameron Jerome 46), Marcus Bent. Unused subs: Colin Doyle, Martin Taylor, Damien Johnson.

Goals: Morgan (og) 74

Bookings: Bouazza 32, Carr 64, Carsley 87

Referee: Mr L Mason

Attendance: 24,232

So basically, Blades get three goals? Ugh. I’m glad I couldn’t find this on any form yesterday. I probably would have thrown something, or a lot of things. As I have said before, I want the Blues to go up this year. Its not fun being down in the Championship, but it’s not like Leeds being down in the old third division. I’m sorry, but that still makes me laugh.

So what did Alex say in the post match presser? (as always from the club’s website): “There’s no accounting for what happened with the goal because from the long diagonal they are clearly offside.

“But what happened next is certainly a concern for me, the defenders fell asleep for the second ball and that’s a problem, especially with the experience we have in the back-four.

“After we managed to get back into the game, it was just such a soft penalty, I think you’d get ten penalties and a thousand fouls in a game if that was considered a foul and I don’t know why he had to give it.”

So what’s good coming out of this match? Well other than still being second in the table, nothing.

What’s gotta get better? a lot, in order to go up, the defenders need to play better, and not worry about the refs.