It was a travesty of justice! As the second half rolled on, Logica had kept reigning champions St Anselms at bay for the previous 15 minutes and had just added a fantastic second goal through Keiran Toman. Saints were on the rack, and hoofed a desperate clearance over half-way just relieve the pressure temporarily. However the Saints right-winger, who was grabbing a quick breather well into the Logica half, suddenly found the ball at his feet. Clearly offside, the linesman's flag was immediately raised. Incredibly, though, the referee chose to ignore his assistant and waved play on. The St Anselms loiterer advanced on the exposed Humphreys and slotted the ball past him. On such diabolical decisions do games turn, and are vital points lost.

Perhaps the objective journalist would balance this gross injustice by observing the trivial fact that this was in fact St Anselms seventh goal of the morning, and may not, if truth be told, have had quite such an impact on the final outcome as all that. Indeed Logica had struggled for the most part with a team that was missing Hatton, Millar, Fleming, Woolhouse, Plane, Oude Vrielink, Abbott and Spence. Perhaps Logica should be looking to get their games postponed on International weekends.

Had it not been for the outstanding Toman, things may actually have been much worse. Logica's answer to Steve Stone, who has not missed a competitive match since March 1995 (thirty-one consecutive appearances), has been on top form all season, adding defensive guile and attacking threat to the left wing-back role that was made for him. Today he was far and away Logica's Man-of- the-Match and was instrumental in both their goals. The first came when Toman received a good pass from Gow. Taking on and beating two defenders he reached the bye-line, and pulled back a precise cross which Johnson was able to clip home in unusually uncontroversial fashion. In the second half, it was Matt Turner, along with Gow also making his full debut, who showed great vision to pick out an excellent blind-side run by the galloping Geordie. Taking the ball on and out-pacing all Saints' defenders, Toman showed a cool head in finishing with a well-placed shot which gave the keeper no chance. A richly deserved goal to cap a fine individual performance, and who knows what the final outcome might of been had it not been for that dodgy refereeing decision?