Met Police 4 Basingstoke 4. Not a bad game for Non-league Day
As always Met Police are a decent team to watch, unless you happen to be their defensive coach. This game was not really a 4-4 game but more like 8-8. One of those games where every attack could have been a goal. I still cannot fathom why Met Police do not get larger crowds as their style of football and quality is some of the best around in non-league currently. Good to see a couple of things. A core support of noisy Basingstoke fans ( but is the drum really needed?) and a good referee. Andy Bennett took no nonsense from the players, at one stage telling a Basingstoke player to stop talking to him in that manner, and broadly got all the major decisions right. A penalty decision went Basingstoke’s way however when looking at the photos the Met Police defender, who clearly tripped the striker, was having his shirt massively pulled. In fact in almost every photograph there is some physical contact
This was a good game to photograph. There was energy from the start and plenty of interesting tackles. Even the last kick of the game came off the Met Police crossbar.
Luke Williams the Met Police Fc keeper
Just a suspicion of a foul
Somehow a goal
Basingstoke fans
The Met Police defender trips the Basingstoke striker, but when did the shirt pulling start?
chris1957
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