Off Day for Jets

Biggleswade Utd 1 Jets 0

Spartan South Midlands Premier
6th March 2010

The fourth game in just eight days proved to much for leg weary jets at Biggleswade United, on a dreadful surface that offered Jets little hope of producing their passing game.

Biggleswade have produced a super ground that meets all the ground grading requirements, but as seen so often at the moment all the cost of this work for seats that never see enough supporters to sit on, and fences that on this type of game need locking to keep the suffering supporters in, it is the pitch and playing surface that has no money left in a club’s budget to have anything done to, and that alone is the major factor to a football match and not if the path is wide enough around the pitch!!

Anyway back to the football, or lack of it, this really was a woeful game to watch.

Jets should have taken the lead in the first minute when Lee Armitt was clear on goal, and how that miss was to be regretted in a mare day for the striker.

Jets had all the early pressure and the opener looked on every time the ball went forward, until the 18th minute when Brown hashed a ball and the resulting ball seemed harmlessly going back to the Jets keeper when hesitation set in and Hilaire chipped what was to be the winner. Lee Grace made a great effort to clear, but the assistant was flagging like mad to indicate in his opinion that the ball had crept over the line for what turned out to be the winner.

Jets really were out of salts and Biggleswade edged the bore match from there on, with neither side giving any real value in this middle of the table game.

The second half was only different for the flow of yellows, that were handed out with ease, and it was to cost Jets and, in particular, Lee Armitt badly. After being shown yellow for dissent, Armitt was judged to have tripped a player from a "drop ball" after a head injury to a Jets player and up came the red card for the striker. 

Like many decisions by players, officials and all aside another not great decision, but truly by then nothing surprised anyone, and most were happy to hear the whistle for the end of the game.