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Banks O'Dee appeal Formartine Red Card incident


By David Porter

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Formartine 2 - Banks O'Dee 0

For the second time in a month Formartine comfortably saw off the challenge of Banks O’Dee.

Well taken goals in the first ten minutes of each period of play were enough to seal the win against a side that managed some decent periods of possession and mounted a couple spells where they had United pinned down in their own backyard.

They seldom mounted any sustained goal threat, had few shots on trarget and came nowhere near matching the efficiency of finishing achieved by the hosts who clearly merited their 12th victory in 13 games (the other was a draw).

The game started at a high tempo and initially had an end to end flavour to it although it was clear from the outset that United had pace and organisation enough to get the ball into the opposition box while the visitors, moving the ball well enough from box to box struggled to get beyond that point where a home back line with Crawford and Smith in the wider berths and Adams and McLean in the centre proved near impenetrable.

United had gone close in the opening minutes when a right to left cross from Lisle flashed across the goalface missing the outsttretched boot of Wade by millimetres and one from the other side by Norris came just as close to being turned in by Campbell.

In the tenth minute United broke through hard and early after Wade, Gallagher and Lisle had combined to force a corner on the left.

Gallagher played it shortish to the near post area where WADE wriggled free of his markers to head home from five yards out.

Formartine used this as a platform and began to dominate moving the ball about confidently and dictating possession , shape and tempo.

Dee worked hard for each other but lacked penetration and although they had enough of the ball to do more twitch ithan they did, lacked the penetration in the final third to work the keeper,

United were able to pick their moments to attack and then did so with power and pace.

They all but replicated their first goal in the 34 h minute when a

Gallagher cross from the left was headed hard to the base of the near post where a superb reflex save by former United keeper Shearer maintained the scoreline.

Almost immediately after that Dee pressed again and Winton pursued a right to left ball across the box and home keeper Macdonald dived between player and ball felling Winton in the process. Gauld took the penalty but the wee striker is a former Formartine player whose penalty style would be well kown to the keeper who immediately dived low to his left to push the ball round the post for an urewarded corner.

Like the first half the second began with a quick and beautifully taken United goal.

A free flowing attack from the halfway line in the 52nd minute had the Banks box crowded with defenders and others when the ball came to GALLAGHER at the front edge.

He had the nous to use the congestion to his advantage.

Realising how this could be used to restrict the keeper’s line of sight, he very carefully curved the ball round the two players between himself and Shearer and into the net before keeper knew what happened.

From then on Banks were in deep trouble and despite having the will to reverse things simply lacked the way or the means.

They had a couple of attempts but found themselves in an irrertrievable position in the 75th minute when Winton ,who will fight tooth and nail (premominantly the former( for his cause was summarily red carded after being disposssed by McLean.

In retaliation for being suckered he turned on the big defender lunging at his neck and was sent off for either biting him or trying to do so.

It is unclear whether the attack was occasioned by a blood lust or the curious fetishisation of a taste for tatoo ink.

There was no way back for Dee and United gradually slowed things down playing simple possession stuff until time ran out.

Commenting post match Banks o’ Dee FC have strongly refuted the decision to send off captain Kane Winton during the game and immediately lodged an appeal with the Scottish Football Association.

Director of Football, Paul Bain, will head an investigation by the club to determine the circumstances around the events that has led to the red card which also resulted in widespread media coverage.

Contact has already been made with the SFA, Formartine United and Banks o’ Dee FC representatives and findings will be submitted shortly.


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