due to facebook i have made contact with a old friend i have not seen for 14 years and we went to the Southend 0-2 Brighton last night,
now dont get me wrong, it was a good game , a punch up in the first 5 mins, a sending off, 2 goals, 2 off the line clearances.
but the Reff was shocking and the linesmen.
it was never a sending off, the linesman missed 3 clear pens for southend and one of the the Reff Singh was right next to the player when he got his shirts almost ripped from his back in the box just as he was going to take a shot.
a lot of the time when we say the Reff is for just one team its done out of sour grapes , but last night i was neutral and was shocked what i was seeing.
I know it was only a League One and Reff Singh has only just come up from the Non League but he has been given some big games this year.
This was always going to be a hard game, two seaside towns and ex Briton player on the southend team.
but in truth i have seen better Reffs in the Sunday league down the park.
I was not shock that the police had to help the Reff off the field at the end of the game, not to save him from the fans but to save him from the players.
all creadit to the southend fans they took it well and the humor was great.
as for southend as a team they have not got a clue up front this year and need to get it sorted if the are going to try and move back into the Championship.
I did have a great night and it was good to meet up with a old friend that i had been to hundreds of games with when i was younger.