Cheer up boys, we won

Bitter. Twisted. Three penalties. Bitching and moaning. But you know what? We won the three points, so cheer the hell up! I've never seen such a gloomy lot following a win. I can excuse Ant - he thought the score was 2-2.
Gary J says it left a bitter taste because it's very rare to walk from a field unable to face shaking the hands of the moron who has just tried to take your leg off at the knee joint, or spent the past 90 minutes whinging like a baby. Today we gave the babies a spanking and I am stoked we did. Four points from those deadbeats and, barring a final, we won't see their ugly bogan faces again this season.
Enough about them.
I think we triumphed by getting back in their faces today - more than a match for them physically and mentally and 2-1 victors on the day.
We went ahead to two penalties in the first half. For the first Ant surged into the box down the right and was hacked down. Fergus despatched his third penalty of the season for a 1-0 lead.
Running into a strong wind, we continued to dominate with few issues at the back aside from a couple of long balls into our box. The defenders dealt well with the bombardment and up front we were playing good ball behind their backline.
The second penalty was, to most observers, controversial. From my viewpoint, I barged through two defenders (possibly giving one a shove), won the ball and then had my legs kicked. Yep, I fell over and yep it was a legitimate penalty.
With Fergus off I stepped up to take the kick. Then I noticed Fergus standing beside me - he subbed on at the time the kick was given (did he clear it with the ref?). Afterwards I proffered the opinion that you couldn't make a sub to take a PK. I will admit to a high level of soccer nerdiness here and acknowledge that I have looked up the law this evening and found out that I'm completely wrong.
Luckily I hit the shot just hard enough that it found the net despite the keeper getting a left mitt on it.
Ant just clipped over the bar to end the first half and we started the second half the stronger again. I should have played in Fergus but overhit the pass and several times we had players in the box waiting for crosses pumped over the top.
As is a recurring theme, we let in a goal while cruising and it caused an anxious final 25 minutes. Dean climbed above a Burgh defender to head clear and the ref called for a freekick. Very soft and unfortunately in the box. The Burgh players started to argue, which made a nice change from their pathetic whining, and finally their centre back stepped up nervously for the penalty kick. The twang it made when it thunked into the post was the sweetest thing we heard all day.
Soon after the Burgh got it right with a neat buildup cutting us up down the right and leading to a good goal. The Burgh's chief idiot claimed "that goal was worth two penalties". Wrong, dickwad.
Ay this stage our midfield disappeared completely and we were playing a 10-0-1 formation.
Ant did however create a couple of chances to wrap it up, one showing amazing athleticism and a booming shot just over the bar and the other... you had to be there I guess.
Five wins, two draws and one loss. Unbeaten against Helensburgh.
Anyway, let's hope we play against a nicer bunch of blokes next week.