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Mark · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:01 am Post subject: Daddy pigs view -Southend away

The ref was okay imo. Yes, we could have got a penalty for that climb on Beckford and I was waving my arms about at the time, but it would have been a bit soft.

And apart from that one at the end when their bald centre half (who I like, Adam Barrett he's called) went tumbling over under pressure from Grella and touched the ball with his hand which for some reason the ref gave them a foul, I thought he looked after the game pretty well. Far from the worst ref I've ever seen.

We started well... passing it, created a few chances from wide, though on a couple of occasions our final ball didn't get through. Then we had a couple of decent chances from corners that spooned over - hard to tell from our end how good the chances were but I felt we could have popped one of them in.

They then came into it. Decent front line they've got too. That Laurent chap who ran rings round us last year is a tricky bugger who we dealt with pretty well all told. Bromby and Kis are two calm centre backs who seem unruffled by most things and communicate clearly and loudly. You could hear them shouting across the line at the back four. Both seem more obviously stand-in captains than Jonny H to me, not that there's anything wrong with Howson.

Then they had a great chance just before HT - Higgs and Kis miscommunicate for once and the ball drops to their little black winger who volleys over from inside the 6 yard box. Cue jeering and more chanting of "your crowd is sh*t, your drummer's a c*unt" and "you can stick your f*cking drumsticks up your arse" to the Southend fans.

Second half we weren't great. Neither were they mind... but the game disintegrated into a midfield battle off. Neither team giving much away. Just as the game was dying on its arse they get the penalty. Probably a fair decision but a bit soft and hard to swallow in a tight game. Still a cracking save as I'm sure you've all seen by now - this guy is such a step up from Casper. Cue singing of "England's number one" for which we get a thumbs up and round of applause from Beckford (surely we're not beginning to bond are we???)

Speaking of the man himself... we could have won it. But in classic Beckford style he missed the easier chance... He'd have probably scored had it been overhead and from 15 yards. And then Grella had a glancing header which could have nicked it.

But actually, it would have been nicking it. A draw was a fair result and after the results on Saturday we'll look back on this as a point gained at a bloody difficult ground.

Some minor chuckles on the way out as various local stewards were singled out for chanting. A small steward whose only similarity to Tony Yeboah was his skin colour ( )got both barrells of the hava nagila "Tony, Tony Yeboah" song; another steward whose fat belly and bald head made him a spit of our little permanent sub got "Whoooo, Andy Andy, Andy Andy Andy Andy Robinson"; then a cute blonde girl steward with a hairband got "Luciano Becchio" shouted in her face... much to her confusion

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