Having been at Goodison yesterday, it all looked set to be a perfect double with 92 mins gone at Daggers today.
We were a bit lax towards the end, but scored a perfectly good goal right at the death that was ruled out massively incorrectly by the ref, who got dog's abuse from all and sundry for her troubles. Their keeper lost her bearings slightly under the crossbar, catching a cross; promptly dropped it at the feet of a Villa player to prod it home.
Nice to know that reffing is just as bad in both leagues (shout out to a poor ref yesterday at Everton).
Cracking shoot-out. Special mention to Hampton's shithousing – she did the Emi trick of chucking the ball past their kick taker to put her off, successfully. Then when the away end told her where the Hammers keeper was hiding her water bottle with the peno instructions, she promptly threw it into the away end. Just a shame that a steward went and fetched it back.
Quality pen from Hampton at the death. And the Hammers keeper put every goal kick wayward to the right all game, so no surprise she did the same into the away end.
Delightful stuff, and thoroughly deserved.
