WYTHENSHAWE TOWN...3 STAND ATHLETIC...3: THIS was not so much a game of two halves as one of three thirds: the first delineated by Stand's assumption of control, the second by a tackle.

An hour had gone when Latics' defender Kluj collided with Furniss on the edge of Stand's penalty area and it looked like a red-card and a penalty.

However, after a lengthy lecture from the referee it was commuted to a yellow card and a free kick inches outside the box.

Town's Mee then drilled the free-kick through Stand's wall to bring Wythenshawe back to an undeserved 1-2.

For the following 30 minutes the refereeing decisions all went Wythenshawe's way, and after two contentious free kicks Wythenshawe emerged with an undeserved draw.

However, the Stand defence need to shoulder some of the blame.

Goalkeeper Hassall is entitled to ask which part of his wall crumbled for the first goal, and who was policing the areas from which the home side snatched their second and third.

At the other end there were the customary contributions from Dickinson and Walsh to send Stand 2-0 ahead, and one by Smith to move 2-1 to 3-1.

So with five games gone of Stand's 14 goals Walsh has bagged six and Dickinson four, while the 15 conceded go a long way to explaining why the points column reads seven and not 15.

STAND: Hassall, Kluj, Morley, Maudsley, Heaney, Martin, Welsh, Pratt, Airey, Walsh, Dickinson. Subs: Smith, Heapy, Woods.