Dale Park were given our very own Halloween horror story on Sunday as we lost our second game this season in a controversial manner. Our day started well, and despite some aggressive tackling from our opponents we took an early two goal lead. Nick Wingate's left-foot cracker put us in front, and Dale Park then taught their opponents a lesson in how the game should be played, when a sweeping passing move, started by Rhodes and Clark, gave Wingate his second of the day that put him to the top of the goalscorers chart. Park continued to pass Trinity off the park, but a lucky route one goal got Boro back in the game, before a game changing incident midway through the first half. A debatable free kick was awarded to Trinity after a battle for possession between Kris Collins and Trinitys number eight. However while play had stopped keeper Ash Finney went to pick up the ball with no danger around, but Gainsboroughs striker charged in on the keeper and lunged in two footed, in a potentially dangerous tackle. Finney played on, but Gainsborough equalized after the blasted free kick found its way in. They then shockingly took the lead after Park failed to close down a midfielder, who found the top corner with a quality volley. The second half began and it somehow got even worse after a lucky bounce managed to help the ball find the goal to give Boro a two goal lead, Trinitys fifth goal was well taken after a good run, Dale Park could barely believe their luck, that despite dominating the game we were three goals down. Cue an inspirational fightback that unfortunately didn't get Park the points they deserved. First Lacey-Hatton's volley found the roof of the net after a brilliant delivery from Rhodes' corner. Clark then latched on the end of a long ball and superbly lobbed the keeper to bring us within one goal of a draw. Despite late chances we could not find the equalizer that would have brought a sense of justice, due to the almost constant flying tackles directed at our players. Towards the end of the game especially, the tackling and time wasting of our opponents was shockingly obvious, disgraceful and at times quite disgusting. The referee blew the full time whistle on a game in which, when the dust settled four of our players (Harvey, Ingham, Collins and Lacey-Hatton) were yellow carded. That may say something about the spirit of the game considering, we have only ever received three yellow cards before in our history (two of which were rescinded). However we will not dwell on the unusual high amount of bookings or passion from both touchlines, as we would like to report on the match. Hopefully the aggressive, thuggish and route one tactics used by our opponents will eventually die once and for all, as we would like to remind them that football, in our opinion, should be played on the ground. As Brian Clough once said "if god wanted us to play football in sky he would have put grass there". Next week we face Scotter Juniors in the David Darby Cup. We are still third in the table.
Dp Team: Finney, Spencer, Lacey-Hatton(C), Collins, Johnstone, Ingham, Reeder, Clark, Harvey, Rhodes, Wingate.
DP Scorers: Wingate(2), Lacey-Hatton, Clark.
DP M.O.M: Ryan Ingham
Bloggers M.O.M: Nick Wingate
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