"A" Squad Concede 17 Goals in 3 Matches - What's Up Lads?

The bad luck continues for the "A" Squad as they concede another 6 goals with no reply against Monksfield on Saturday October 13th 2007. This result brings the total number of goals conceded in the last three games to a staggering 17 - what's gone wrong lads? The game started well and indeed, for the first twenty minutes the lads of "The Town" looked as if they were going to easily get the better of Monksfield. Monksfield's first goal was followed by two more before the break. But very shortly after the first Monksfield goal things started to go very badly wrong as Monksfield or, more accurately, the referee, vigorously played the off-side rule to deny "The Town" any chance of an equaliser. Indeed, unbelievably the lads from "The Town" were "caught" off-side no less than seventeen times by a very officious referee who refused to listen to any protests on the matter from players or the sideline. Remarkably, Monksfield had no such problem nor indeed, had they any problems with any alleged infringements of the game such as placing a foot over the sideline to get water or having water bottles brought on to assist downed players. The rule book and whistle were certainly much in evidence and very questionably so on a number of occasions. But, to their credit, the Dún Laoghaire lads accepted this awkwardly unusual situation with dignity - which brought some very supportive comments from the opposition at the end of the game. Final score: Monksfield 6 : DLTFC 0 (pictured above, the kick off at Monksfield)