FARNBOROUGH 0 SWINDON SUPER 1
By Andrew McNeill
FOOTBALL can be a tactical game of chess orchestrated by two managers. However for all their fine plans and schemes they are executed by 22 meat-puppets with their inherent fallibilities, which was the case here.
A first half of little spectacle and even less incident saw low-flying pigeons in greater danger than either goal. The referee was keen to let wriththe game flow and bring an end to the half as soon as he could, even when a Supermarine player committed a tackle that in rugby would have seen a yellow card for dragging an opponent down ...