#2 we owe Oxford one?

Welcome to Thought of the Day #2, after the, (relative), success of #1: excitement is at fever pitch.

We used to draw 1-1 most weeks, ultimately this cost us last season? Our encounters with Oxford did little to buck this trend – although it feels like we owe them one……..

Home last season 1-1….. Max Power was sent off after 19 minutes for a first bookable offence! Without such incompetence from the referee, we’d have hammered them

Away last season 1-1……we didn’t play particularly well, but looked comfortable at 1-0 until the referee ignored a clear foul that lead to their 87th minute equaliser.

Home this season 1-1….can’t blame the ref this time. Whilst it wasn’t a disastrous result, it was just so fucking depressing, as the reality dawned that we’d not learnt any lessons from the previous season!

Away this season 1-1… deserved to win, ref decided not to give us a nailed on penalty in the last minute

Ultimately we lost on penalties, but…… we didn’t want a fixture overload and playing Man City in the next round would have resulted in a real hammering? Whilst Will Grigg is much criticised by sections of the media…. he bravely missed the deciding penalty – which pisses on the chips of those fools out there who say he offers nothing?

League 1 referees…….

They are not very good are they? To be fair, the best referees in the game regularly come under criticism- so I guess Division 3 refs are never going to be that good? It was in the news today that ‘Bobby Madley’ will return to English football after 18 months referring in Europe………….