[ Tue 29th Sep ] v Kings Langley FC, KO 7:45pm SL1DC AWAY

[Sid]

Is it a draw though or was the match abandoned. No one seems to know. Crazy :roll:

[corby diamond]

So late in the game, surely if it was abandoned the result would still stand?

[UttoDiamond]

KL twitter saying FT :?

[UttoDiamond]

If the game was abandoned then the game will probably be replayed as per Corby's game at Truro last year which was abandoned in 80th min or thereabouts.

[Sid]

All the other results are on the SL website.

[Diamond-In-Barton]

Claming we cheated.

[updiamonds]

Does the (1-1) result stand or not? Seems to be a bit of confusion over that.

Which team did the first bad sportsmanship. Kings Langley. The Kings Langley players rolled around on the ground, when nothing was wrong with them. (The physio) didn't even come on.

And the second bad sportsmanship from Kings Langley was how they acted to it. It was Kings Langley fault, for there first bad sportsmanship for there players rolling around on the ground, when there was nothing wrong with them.

[BartonRaz]

In terms of the game, we played for a draw and almost got what we deserved which was absolutely nothing. I can't understand for the life of me why we reverted back to the god awful 4-5-1 or whatever it is. I'm guessing everybody just wants to know about what happened at the end though....

Their goalkeeper lashed the ball out of play and then subsequently went down holding his back. Hard to tell if he'd actually kicked the ball out for treatment or not because he smashed it a good 60-70 yards down the other end, he didn't simply roll the ball out for a throw-in as you might have expected. Then 2 other KL players decide to go down claiming injury, which leaves 3 of them on the deck. This is a minute or so after a KL player pretended to be injured before jumping up and grinning at the Diamonds fans behind the goal.

All 3 jump back up after a minute or so and I must admit i'd expected us to give the ball back even though it was clearly a con from at least 2 of the KL players. The ball was thrown to Bunts, who for some reason was charged down by some KL players who should ordinarily have allowed him to just kick it back to the goalkeeper. Confusion all round at this point. Bunts then plays a perfect through ball to Joseph, whos fierce shot rebounds to the feet of Quigley who scrambles it in sparking wild celebrations. It was a bit naughty to be honest but it was really confusing. I didn't know whether to cheer or laugh due to the instant karma from their time-wasting tactics.

This obviously didn't go down too well with the home side. Someone was sent from the dugout (think it was Hanlon), their players surrounded the referee, and it took a good few minutes for play to restart as tempers began to fray. Shortly after the restart, one of their players puts a poor looking challenge in on Brad Harris in front of the KL dugout, and at this point all hell breaks loose. It made the brawl against Biggleswade look like handbags. I was at the other end of the ground but it looked like he could have shown 10 red cards. As it was he waited an absolute age before showing a random red card to Elliot Lamb-Johnson who was sat on our bench, not a clue what for. Things started kicking off once more, before the referee probably rightly realised it wasn't going to be able to restart.

Utterly ridiculous if we have to go down there and re-play that for the sake of 2 minutes.

[sussexdiamond]

Well we did not lose, so now only Solihull Moors and ourselves are unbeaten in the top 8 levels of English football, that is some 363 clubs!

[davealbon]

Our goal was poor sportsmanship if we're being honest, however their time wasting and injury feigning was cheating, so they got what they deserved. I suspect the result will stand once the league/FA have reviewed the blind clown's, I mean referee's match report. Although the behaviour of their bench and players was a disgrace, unfortunately a few of ours let themselves down by sinking to their level.