Davey Again!

When we read on the official site (IFA.premiership.com),that the referee for tomorrows game was A. Davey we jumped to the wrong conclusions. We started cursing our luck of having the most incompetent ref this side of John Ferry (and that's saying something), two matches running. Davy Malcolm has been missing from the Irish league scene for a couple of years but he needed no introduction to United fans who had seen his biased refereeing tactics many, many, times before last Saturday's inept performance. Davy seems to be of the opinion that the ends justify the means, so what if you kick lumps out the opposition, if you score more goals than them it will be justified. But no we got it wrong thankfully, but on the minus side the 4th official is he of the spindly legs, none other than Colin Burns, he'll no doubt sanction our bench and at the same time let the 'fat controller' and the IFA bench away with murder. Sure that's only to be expected so to speak, we are in the lions den and we can expect no mercy.

Team news: as usual we don't have a baldies (and we're not talking about Spike's backroom staff here), opinion among Sky Blue fans seems to dictate, we will rest a few players tomorrow, but we at 'Sport would rather see Glenn pick the nucleus of the side he's going use in the final and see if we can come up with a plan to frustrate the champions. Sparky is completing the last match of his ban and Spike may have hopes of adding him to his squad or his starting eleven on Tuesday night. On top of that, our Captain Jenks, is to be given 45 minutes with the reserves tomorrow and if he doesn't suffer adverse reactions from that outing, we wouldn't be surprised to see him in the panel at least. As for tomorrow line-up we at 'Sport see no future in playing Thommo and Alan D in the same team and with of return of Gavin and the expected promotion of Kane to midfield, one of them will undoubtedly have to stand down. Tomorrow's three points will not make or break our season, but will go along way to discover if we have real character in our team.

Our dismal record at the headquarters of the IFA/Linfield, speaks for itself, we usually get tanked or lose by a scrappy goal that could have been avoided, Tomorrow needs to be a turning point for our team, we can't afford to let the IFA dictate the pace and we need to fight 'fire with fire' and try to shake their confidence going into the County Antrim Shield final at the Oval next Tuesday, in short, we need players to stand up and be counted. If we can play as a team with everybody working their socks off and a 'never say die' attitude, maybe, but we emphasis the word 'maybe', we will have something to show for it come ten to five tomorrow. But if on the other hand we go out with the same attitude as last week and the slip shod defending, we can expect no mercy from the champions. It's over to you Spike and your backroom staff, if you have prepared for this and it comes unstuck, you may get another chance Tuesday night, we only can hope, come on Sky Blues, let's shag those villagers!