Hertford Town v Sun Sports                    14th March  2017                      SSML Premier

A lacklustre first half performance cost the Sun the points on Tuesday night as second placed Hertford Town scored twice to help push their promotion chances.
Hertford kicked off, started strongly and pressured from the very beginning with Sun’s rookie keeper Drew Oliver soon called into action making two vitally important saves.
The force of the Hertford attack saw Town take numerous corners in succession before the Sun could even rally themselves together, and Damien Cruickshank was in the right place at the right time to head a shot off the line.
Damien limped off with a swollen knee and Kerran Lataille followed soon after only eleven minutes on the clock – two subs used with just over ten minutes gone and more injury worries for Tim O’Sullivan.
A perfectly placed cross floated into the penalty area to find Lowen’s head, who guided the ball into the top right of the Sun goal, leaving young Oliver stranded on the goal line – not that any other keeper could have reached that header.
With the Sun a goal down Andy Brennan and Deji Ikusemori took more control in midfield and it looked like the Sun might try and make a game of it.
But seconds before the half time whistle came an uncleared cross from the right which was tapped in from within the six yard area by Ramone-Sinclair to give Town a two goal cushion and a much harder job for the Sun in the second half.
Harsh words were spoken at half time and the Sun came out with all guns blazing, substitutes Jack Johnson and Karl Penny both had decent chances to get the Sun back into the game, Johnson had a long range strike that bounced in front of the Hertford keeper but he recovered from the bounce to push the ball to safety.
Penny wrong-footed one defender and as he powered his way into the penalty area was brought down by the stretched leg of the covering centre half, despite the appeals the referee waved play on.
In front of a hostile and raucous Hertford crowd of 153 Drew Oliver had a decent second half and handled the banter given by the opposition well.
Scully for Hertford went for a high ball and blatantly tried to get Tommy Walsh (pictured) booked, or worse, by screaming and holding his ankle and rolling around and around like an Argentinian player from the 80’s. Within a minute or so he was up and running around as if nothing had happened – maybe he just wanted a bit of attention from the Hertford physio!!
The majority of referee decisions seemed to go against the Sun, which clearly frustrated the players and fans alike and as the final whistle went something was said to cause a fracas near the tunnel, causing a few punches to be thrown and pushes made.
The referee promptly walked up to George Hobson to give him a second yellow and sent him off (although the match was already over) and it took a fair bit of persuasion by the Sun players and coaching staff to give Draper of Hertford a red as well.
So a bad day at the office all round for the Sun, and with the next couple of matches coming up being away to 4th placed Biggleswade United and then away to 3rd placed Cockfosters in midweek, there’s some tough matches ahead for the boys in yellow