Watching Middlesbrough at home to Stoke City. The match was on life support for 50 odd minutes until Stoke scored through a Sam Clucas deflected shot. Boro then threw caution to the wind and equalized moments later. Now there's some life in this contest.
Clucas with a clear dive. His shithousery gets him a yellow card. Stoke look a different prospect now they've scored. On replay it does seem Howson gave him a bit of the knock. Stoke industry is short lived and Michael O'Neill looks like someone's grand dad wandered on to the touchline during a Sunday League match.
Substitutions made and now the game has ground to a halt. The 78 year old Steven Ward has left the proceedings and now there may be a match of football about to start up again. Scenes of athleticism may just be on the cusp of being revealed.
Wow, was I wrong. No game of football has come about and it has become even more scrappy and disjointed. Great substitutions by each side has meant that what was already a match lacking in quality has devolved into a struggle more akin to the Isthmian League than the second tier of English Football.
Wing shoots from North Ormesby...and scores. Boro on top now. Shocking! It is now, laughably, 2-1 for Middlesbrough.
While still an unedifying spectacle, tails are up now and Boro are looking for a third.
This football will be not be un-seeable for a long time.
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