Farsley 4-0 Hucknall

[frankiegth]

Didn't go to the game but we had two sent off in the first half.

0-0 H/T then had another sent off, conceded three in the last 10mins.

A Farsley fan posted this on our forum:

Farsley fan here.

Very strange game. Never seen anything like it. Obviously I don't have the benefit of replays but those three sendings off looked harsh and completely surprised everyone in the ground. Nobody wants to see elbows and two footed tackles, but then again nobody wants to see a farcical 11 v 8 match either.

For not one of the three red card incidents were the fans shouting "off off off" before the card came out, which tells me that the usually knowledgable locals didn't spot anything too bad going on from the offendees. The two footed tackle did at least cause one of our defenders to limp off and have to be substituted, so maybe that one was justified. The other two were elbows though (apparently) and much harder to call. I'll say something though...for the third red card, not one Farsley player spotted anything bad, not one fan spotted anything bad, not one player fell to the floor injured from whatever the offencewas . All that seemed to happen was the lineman flagging, the ref consulting him, and then the red coming out. Seemed like overkill to me seeing as we were already playing against nine men. I can't really fathom it.

Obviously it's nice to win but it feels pretty lame winning 4-0 like this. Your 8 lads tried to run around and defend in the second half but it was all a complete joke ; the entire half being played out on the edge of your penalty area as it was. Your keeper saw the funny side though and had a laugh when he could with us about it.

Anyway, much sympathies and keep your chins up. You murdered Fleetwood so you can't be that bad.

[J Esaj PRA]

Sounds to me like the Farsley mob have even less of a clue about the Laws of the Game than the average Conference North fan - and that's really saying something!

If the officials applied the Laws consistently every week, you'd see lots of 8 vs. 8 games. The Laws are a mess and the way referees are asked to apply them makes them look stupid in the eyes of most fans.

[frankiegth]

Appearently we were down to 8 men after 42 mins and they didn't score until 55 and that was an O.G. The three others came in the last ten.

With regard the offences their seems t be mixed opinion, as ever it's down to the view you have of the incident. Some say the cards were warrented others say they didn't see anything untoward. I'm sure we can all give examples of bad officiating at our respective teams' games but we seem to have to take the rough with the very rough.