Gillingham (0) 0
Oxford United (0) 0
Att. 5,364
Entrance: Season Ticket
Programme: £3
Mileage: 45/7,285
Match Report
Ninety minutes of my life that will never be returned and were truly wasted and I don’t intend wasting many more of mine or my readers’ time with a lengthy account of this dreadful match. Had I spent that time at home doing the ironing it would have been vastly more productive and marginally more entertaining.The mitigating factor was a strong wind that neither side had the wit or guile to master. Long, long periods of boredom were spent peering into the grey sky looking at the spherical object that had once more been launched into the stratosphere. The one player that attempted to keep the ball in touch with planet earth, Kevin Maher, did more than enough to win the Man of the Match Award.
Gillingham started with a spring in their step and forced some panic in the Oxford defence with a Curtis Weston shot being blocked. And then the game just died on its feet, until a last 10 minute onslaught from the home side in search of a winner that would have been barely deserved.
We can breeze, in gale force conditions, through the highlights, which in truth are mainly lowlights. Matt Lawrence was fortunate when Grant Hegley took a common sense approach and showed him a yellow when a red might well have been brandished for a retaliatory kick out at Paul McLaren who had fouled him in the first instance.
It took 65 minutes for a shot to be registered on target, Cody McDonald bringing a comfortable save out of Ryan Clarke. Early second half substitutions enlivened the game to a degree, Luke Rooney taking a punt that was high and wide, but at least it was a shot.
Into time added on, and McDonald headed against the bar from a difficult angle before the referee called time much to the relief of all present.
Now, where’s that ironing.
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