[Exile on Spencer St]

Womblecharlie's pre match summary was accurate, but his post match view somewhat biased.
From where I stood, squeezed into a corner surrounded by Stanley stalwarts and a few local "premiership" worshipers come to support the Reds, I thought Stanley more than deserved the point. 3 points may have been greedy (but more than welcome) and I thought we could have gone in at half time 0-3, had we had more luck. But then it is 2013. Unlucky for some and especially us. The ref did give Stanley the benefit of many doubts but then totally undid everything by the ludicrous sending off. It ruined the game as a contest and I'd rather have had fewer petty free kicks than have our most dangerous player sent off. The wombles had been niggling Kayode all of the first half, but nothing that isn't seen at most games. But when he went up to challenge a high ball on the half way line at the end of the first half, the Womble player clearly went up with an elbow in Kayode's head. Of course the linesman, who seemed to spend most of his time watching the ref, wouldn't have seen that. It was silly of Kayode to get involved in handbags a deux, but it takes two to tango and,significantly, in the immediate aftermath, the Womble player made himself scarce. Leaving their no 8 (why does every other team but Stanley seem to have a nasty little piece of work like him?) to turn it into a bun fight.
Stanley did well today. Bettenelli, Aldred, Winnard, Naylor, Mingoia, Kayode were excellent and all the team gave their all. There was no-one shirking, and no sign of heads dropping.
Well done to them all.