@ Berkeley
Stratford 1
Berkeley 1
Stratford 4-3 in PKs.
A second Berkeley shot signaled a goal by the AR on the endline, waved off and overruled by the center who said the keeper made the save. Berkeley finishes the game with ten on the field after a Berkeley player unwisely expresses dissatisfaction with what she perceived as a consistent lack of calls on rough play.
Most of you know I very rarely criticize officiating, but to me this is yet another example of a situation where a yellow in a timely manner (issued to EITHER side of an increasingly chippy match--a couple of mine also delivered some hard shots that could have been cautioned) would have prevented the kind of emotional frustration that led to a red after reaching the point where people are being pushed to the ground.
I know a lot of those girls and they can be proud to say threy were the 1st. Knew these younger girls and that they were going to be trouble way back in Feb. 