< 2007 Gloucester Hooligans Regular Season Game #7

Hooligans 4, Sporting Mexico 0
Goal Scorers: Gilles (4, 5),
Feodor (4, 5).

this is what the score of what 
last weeks game shoulda been 
like

start the game off with a bang 
with 2-3 really good quality 
scoring chances in the first 
5 minutes.  like last weeks 
game, pop in an early goal in 
the first 10-15 minutes, but 
like last week's game as well, 
have a hard time finding the 
elusive 2nd goal.  finally, 
with about 20 minutes to go, 
we get the 2nd goal and then 
score the 3rd and 4th goals in 
a 10 minute span (with a 
beautiful feo header goal off 
a gilles cross from the corner 
of the 18 yard box)

uneventful second half with 
few quality chances on either 
end.  we seemed content to sit 
on our 4-0 lead and play a 
little more long ball as 
opposed to our ball control 
style that's been working for 
us the past 3-4 games.  in the 
dying minutes of the game, 
tariq make a fantastic slide 
tackle on an opposing player 
on a breakaway to preserve a 
shutout.

on a side note...this game 
could have been played without 
a ref.  this is quite possibly 
the worst ref we have had in 
2-3 years easily.  numerous 
offside calls we're blown (on 
both sides of the ball) and 
many dangerous tackles were 
not called (one of them put 
gilles out of the game due to 
an injury that the opposing 
player even told the ref that 
he should have whistled).  the 
ref even missed (somehow) a 
hand ball by steph on a 
passback that even had steph 
laughing.  good thing the 
opposing team was good-
natured...if this was a rough 
game against a rough team, it 
could have gotten out of 
control real fast.