Posh Blog

At Saturday's game against Southend I ended up standing next to a guy with his young daughter who appeared to be about five. She was sitting on the barrier to get a better view. I had to wonder what her dad would think of any bad language as the London Road Terrace is not one of the family areas of the ground where bad language is prohibited. I was still debating with my mate about whether it would be ok for us to shout a few choice words when necessary when the girl's Dad shouted "You *bleep*ing Prick!" at the referee. I guess that's question answered. I don't hold out much hope for his daughter though, it'll only be a matter of time before she's calling her Dad a *bleep*ing prick around the house. Oh well.

Our team for the game had to be changed yet again due to more injuries. Zakuani was out from defence and Coutts was out from midfield which meant bringing Tommy Williams back from injury at left back and Shane Blackett back from injury at centre back while moving Charlie Lee to midfield. Despite all these changes we still managed to start the game fairly brightly. It was only 6 minutes in when the referee made one of his many poor decisions by giving us a penalty for what, after I saw it again on TV, was a very very soft foul. I can't complain but the Southend fans definately had reason to. Keates converted the penalty to give us the lead.

I can pinpoint the exact moment when our game completely turned to shit. On 25 minutes we struggled to clear the ball out of the box and they capitalised with a stunning overhead scissor kick, it was completely unstoppable because it just came out of nowhere. Unfortunately it's certainly a contender for the best goal I've seen this season, I was hoping that one of our players could do that.

After the goal we didn't look the same side, we kept trying hopeless long balls and our short passing got very sloppy as well. None of this was helped by the massively inconsistent referee who booked players for seemingly innocent tackles while letting dangerous ones go unpunished for both sides.

The final nail in the coffin of the match was their second goal. The cross should have been no trouble to deal with but just like Craig Morgan did at Leicester, Blackett spooned the ball past Joe Lewis and into the back of the net. It was no more than Southend deserved, and their large away following certainly will have gone home happy. We could have gone second if we had won this match but it seems that we might be starting to bottle it. We need to put this right with a win on Tuesday night.

Next Match Attending

Leyton Orient v Posh
3/3/09 7.45pm
Brisbane Road