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Natalie had more idea than this lot!
As one spectator sat behind me commented in the first half of this match "Natalie Appleton had more idea than this lot". OK, we started without a few first team players but ended with practically the team who'll start in the FA Cup on Saturday and the sad fact is that they just weren't good enough!
That was a comment from avftt.com - a Blackpool site after last nights game at Edgar Street. It went on:
Such was the insipid performance in the first half, we spent most of the opening 45 minutes of this game discussing costumes for a fancy dress party we're off to on Saturday. During this conversation I noticed a man in front of me was bizarrely wearing a wolf's head and wondered if we'd arrived at the party four days early! There was no chance of the 159 Blackpool fans being the party poopers at Edgar Street though and if anything we were like the embarassed relatives who sneak away early after they're thoroughly ashamed by certain people's behaviour - in this case it was the performance (or lack of it) from the Blackpool team that caused red faces all round. Colin Hendry said ahead of this game he was confident that not matter which team he sent out that they'd do a job against Hereford. He soon learnt that it wasn't quite as easy as that.
They weren't very happy with the winning goal although only their goalkeeper appeared to protest.
The winning goal was a farce from start to end as first the linesman awarded Hereford a free kick after Mark McGregor was adjudged to have pushed one of their players - no way was it a free kick and the referee was weak to give it. From the free kick, Blackpool failed to clear the ball and no one picked up Mills who bundled the ball over the line with his hand (even the Hereford fans on the way out were laughing at the way this was given!). The Blackpool fans remonstrated but the linesman who'd seen everything that everyone else had missed but nothing that everyone else had seen just disappeared up his line (or his own backside would be more appropriate!). Sadly I can't say I was bothered and was just relieved we didn't have to go through another dire 30 minutes of extra time!
