Dalbeattie Star boss fumes at goalie's dismissal against Mid Annandale

Dalbeattie Star boss Eddie Warwick was left fuming after his goalie was sent off against Mid Annandale on Saturday.

Keeper Jake Gemmell (right)was dismissed after just a quarter of an hour following a collision with Jordan Harley, with coach Mikey Devlin – who is not a keeper – taking over.

Star were 2-0 up at the time but fell 3-2 behind in the second half before rallying to win a crazy game 4-3.

But Warwick was furious with the circumstances behind Gemmell’s dismissal.

Warwick said: “I’m still very angry and very frustrated with the way it came about.

“I’m a great believer that some decisions will go round in circles and even themselves out – let’s hope that is going to be the case.

“Both players have slightly scuffed the ball – they have both connected and they have both crashed into each other and it’s a keeper coming out of his area clattering a striker. That’s not what we’re angry about, we’re angry at events – a foul in the build-up and an offside.

“Dalbeattie is a big place and a referee has been sent down on his own, and it’s a massive surface to get round.

“We didn’t have a reserve goalkeeper on the bench and had to ask a coach to go in. No disrespect to him but he’s not a keeper, he’s never been in goals before in his life and put a pair of gloves on for the first time. He’s jumped in goals for us and tried his very best.

“When you put a non-goalkeeper in, it’s almost the same as having no goalkeeper. You’ve just got to pepper the target and the ball will most likely go in – that’s exactly what we would have done.

“We’re so thankful to the coach for going in – he got a round of applause afterwards and rightly so. It takes a lot of guts to grab the gloves and do it.”

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