I don't know why I am posting this considering the verbal abuse hurled at me in this thread but here are some more details from someone who watched the reserve game. Your boys did well controlling the play until the red card and goal.
A few more notes:
DC's starting lineup:
GK: Thorpe
D's (L-to-R): Zaher, Murphy, Mediate, Barlow
M's (L-to-R): Thompson (guest), Dyachenko, Stratford, Kirk
F's: Niell, Cordeiro
At the beginning of the second, Carvalho replaced Thorpe, and Cordeiro and Thompson switched (putting Cordeiro in his normal position).
Barlow and Dyachenko were subbed out over the course of the second; can't remember who came in.
As noted, DC wins 2-0. The scoreline is a bit misleading; Toronto had the run of play for a lot of the match. It seemed to go through phases:
1. For much of the first, Toronto carried the run of play, right up until the dust-up between one of our players (Thompson?) and one of theirs (was on the opposite side of the field from me. Niell came running in, and took a shot to the head/neck. He got a yellow; the guy who clocked him got red.
2. After the red, and for the rest of the first, the match was more in our favor, but not as much as you'd expect given the man advantage.
3. At the start of the second, despite being a man down, Toronto came out strong and really pressed. They had the momentum until we scored, against the run of play. I'd moved to the north end of the field at that point, and the goal was scored at the south end, but it looked like a nice sequence.
4. After that goal, Toronto seemed to really deflate, while DC played with more confidence and energy. The second goal game when Niell sent in a low shot. The keeper was a little out from the goal to narrow the angle of the shot. Just as Niell shot, a TFC player slid in to tackle the ball, causing a deflection up into the air and over the keeper's head, and into the goal.
Not much happened after that.
Late in the first, there was nearly a second fight. Gala for TFC and Zaher for DCU had been jawing away and bumping each other for an extended period, jockeying for "position" even though the ball wasn't nearby. As Zaher left it and started to move back towards his goal, Gala took the opportunity to kick Zaher in the calf from behind. Zaher came back after him and shoved him, and of course that's all the refs saw and TFC got the foul call. On the subsequent free kick, Toronto seemed to score a nice goal, but it was called back for offside.
Footyfan note: Nice way to treat a former TFC player.
Footyfan note: Your team is full of classless hacks.
One other note: I've never heard anybody jaw at the AR like Lombardo does. Anyone. Some of the stuff he said to the AR was so over the line, without a card or even a comment from the ref, that I now can't imagine how far one would have to go to get the automatic red for "abusive language" that we've occasionally seen. Wow wow wow, he was unreal.
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Originally Posted by Rooney
) would that be in violation of board rules? Just wanting to make sure so if I ever resorted to such a classless thing I am not ejected for what is within the laws of the game 
