been away for a while only to come back to ankara to see that gencler's season is basically over. out of the cup and no chance of relegation or a european place. not only that, but our coach resigned mid-week. it seems as if zumdick left on good terms and we will be coached by his assistant until the end of the season. so, all up, last night's sivas - gencler match meant bugger all. at least to us.
sivasspor 1 - 1 genclerbirligi
i was off at the dutch national day reception last night and as they had free heineken it was with difficulty that i managed to get mrs. oz kanka to take me to the beer bus. i finally did and walked in on the 62nd minute mark to find us 1-0 down. a minute later and hursut sends across a perfect ball to oktay who sent the ball into the net with a header.
high fives all round and the gencler fans all treated my arrival as an omen.
not long later and a sivas player was given a second yellow for a dive. the crowd started getting angry and various objects were thrown onto the pitch. fine coming up for sivas i guess.
with a man up for 22 minutes it looked as if we were going to go ahead but some great keeping kept us out.
so, 1-1 it finished, and sivas has to wait another week to see if they can mathematically avoid the drop.
