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This game ended up 1-1.. I thought there should have been more cards in the game.. on a corner kick one of our guys headed the ball in the goal and one of their players, the red-headed #14, obviously swatted the ball out of the goal. We got a PK and scored, but #14 should have been red carded. The ref claimed not to see who reached up and knocked it out with their hand even though everyone including people on the sidelines knew who hit it out, so he said he couldn't card anyone. I think we got the bad end of the deal on that one. Also another time one of their players (#1) shoved one of our players who was on his back trying to get the ball and it looked like he was about to punch our player but he backed away, I thought this should also be carded but it wasn't. Other than the lack of cards and control of the game by the refs, I thought everything went fine.

Well, We came out strong at the beginning of the game and controlled most of it as well, I was very confident we would win but turned out that we just couldn't score. Their first goal came from a throw in. The first time they threw it to our keeper, but it was called back because they were still subbing or something like that. So they threw it in again back to someone beyond the 18 who wasn't marked well and he took the ball and shot from far out, scoring an upper 90 shot.. I don't know if he meant to shoot it or cross it, but it was unstoppable. Their other goal in the second half was also scored from far out, noone picked him up quickly enough so he shot, which the ball hugged the far post on the right and went in. I wouldn't doubt that we did have more shots, they just were more accurate on a few of theirs.

lol but professionals can't usually hear the individual fans because the stadiums are so loud I don't think

Yeah, we won 1-0.. neither team could control the ball very well because it was raining on us, making it very slick. We actually scored another goal, but it was called back. One of our players won the ball outside the 18 and took it in for a shot, but when he was fighting for the ball, it hit his hand unintentionally. Many of the calls were ridiculous, most of the time in favor of Morristown West, the ref was calling out their players by name which usually isn't a good sign. They had annoying student fans that were yelling at me and other players, telling us how to make a throw-in among other things to try and make us mess up.. we never did. It was hilarious though because they kept messing up on their own throw-ins.

This is Justin, an ex-fury player, I was just wondering who you played for competitively, I thought you were playing with Impact.. and I was trying to figure out who Knives was, because he denied that he was Adam in another post and I knew he was your keeper for Impact.

Burns what competitive team do you play for? Impact?

Where did you get that I was blaming the ref for our loss to Farragut? I was just saying that I thought it would be a badly called game when I first saw that ref and that it was funny what #12 said.. The refs called the game pretty fairly, I thought. Who are you anyways? You obviously know me.

lol It's funny how you mentioned the refs, because after one call that was made against farragut, the guy who had been taking most of the long throw-ins (#12, an asian kid) turned to the linesman and said "you're supposed to be helping us out," I thought that was pretty funny. I'm surprised the ref called a pretty fair game because that bald ref we had made some terrible calls and some that he didn't call against us in our game against Kingston.. which I heard that's where he's from. So I was a little worried when I saw him. In the Kingston game he seemed to be trying to get in my way, like on a free kick we had infront of the 18, my teammate played it to the side and I was going to shoot but I had to work it around the ref so it didn't work very well. By the way, I think you are talking about my shot on goal in the Farragut game pseudophobia.. the one that was far out, past the 18 and was going just under the crossbar but adam tiped it over for a corner?

Ok, I thought the Schmeichel pic and the fact that you play for Farragut were giveaways..

a plague aka: Adam Greene?

His name is Justin, a junior.. once we got back to school he turned in his soccer uniforms. Now who are you?

lol No, the ball boys were young, middle schoolers or younger. The guys yelling stuff at our players were older and bigger, highschool aged guys. I think they were finishing up track practice or something and they just stayed, because I'm pretty sure I saw them running, or maybe they were just running for the heck of it.. but one of Farragut's coaches told them to leave, so they did. Maybe it was them that went into the stands and was singing "Ole ole ole ole?" I don't know.

We play Morristown West on Thursday. And yes, we played at the stadium, but there were fans next to the field on the track.. and I know it happens in Highschool soccer, but seems like 2 teams should be able to play without any outside interference/help.

Yes, Farragut beat LC.. so what? I know of atleast 10 seniors on Farragut's team, there are probably more that I don't know. What will happen to them next year when they lose those seniors though? They have such an advantage over a small school like ours.. they have so many people to choose from, I heard that about 70 people came out to try out for Farragut, while we had about 25-30 at most. On top of that these guys have played together for years, I know, I have played with alot of them or against them. Our team has mostly younger players with no height. Farragut had height and that's what killed us. We couldn't win hardly any headers, which is how they scored several of their goals. They would have #12 take the long throw-ins and have guys running onto the ball for the header, or they would play a ball over the defence's head where they had over-loaded the side and head it in that way. This year's Farragut team has improved from last year's alot, since we stayed with them until the end last year until kevin underwood scored one goal against us to make the final score 1-0, believe it or not. It was pretty annoying though how after every call was made against them they would complain and act like they hadn't done anything when it was obvious. Also about the class issue, the fans/students didn't have any.. they would hang out close to our defending corner and say things to try to distract and insult our players, just like last year at our game against Bearden, however the refs were kind enough to take care of it this game. ps. Knives, you're adam aren't you?

Enzo Uriquilla from LC is a very talented forward