2.15pm 17 March 2013
Ceredigion League, Division Two
St David's University College 2 Bargod Rangers reserves 3 (att 12)
Last Sunday this ground staged a match in the Ceredigion League "hop". I couldn't make that match, but this week's alternative gave me the chance to sample a more normal matchday at College Fields in Lampeter.
With no admission charge, no rope around the pitch, and no programmes, refreshments or other groundhoppers to distract me I was able to concentrate on the football. I don't know what last week's game was like, but what today's lacked in skill it made up for in entertainment.
Bargod went ahead after two minutes and increased their lead just before half time. A third goal soon after the break appeared to put them on the road to an easy win, but a pair of late goals for the students, the second in the final minute, made the outcome closer.
SDUC should have had a point though. In the first half, while only 1-0 behind, they had a shot from distance which squeezed under the crossbar and beyond the Bargod keeper's reach. At least that's what most people thought.
Not the referee though, the ball had escaped through a hole in the back of the net, and the ref ruled it must have gone over the bar rather than under it, resulting in a Bargod goalkick. I guess goal-line technology is never likely to make it to the Ceredigion League, and credit to SDUC for getting on with the game after the briefest of, entirely justified, moans.
Ceredigion League, Division Two
St David's University College 2 Bargod Rangers reserves 3 (att 12)
Last Sunday this ground staged a match in the Ceredigion League "hop". I couldn't make that match, but this week's alternative gave me the chance to sample a more normal matchday at College Fields in Lampeter.
With no admission charge, no rope around the pitch, and no programmes, refreshments or other groundhoppers to distract me I was able to concentrate on the football. I don't know what last week's game was like, but what today's lacked in skill it made up for in entertainment.
Bargod went ahead after two minutes and increased their lead just before half time. A third goal soon after the break appeared to put them on the road to an easy win, but a pair of late goals for the students, the second in the final minute, made the outcome closer.
SDUC should have had a point though. In the first half, while only 1-0 behind, they had a shot from distance which squeezed under the crossbar and beyond the Bargod keeper's reach. At least that's what most people thought.
Not the referee though, the ball had escaped through a hole in the back of the net, and the ref ruled it must have gone over the bar rather than under it, resulting in a Bargod goalkick. I guess goal-line technology is never likely to make it to the Ceredigion League, and credit to SDUC for getting on with the game after the briefest of, entirely justified, moans.
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ReplyDeletei took part in this match for bargod and scored the opener. i can concur that in my opinion the sduc goal should have stood an was astonished it had not. and as always the club showed credit in not berating the ref as most teams including mine would have done but instead gained in spirit and got on with it. also usiually got some fine totty on the touchline, can distracting
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