Lovely, balmy Wellington night for football....best I can remember for ages. Decent crowd well led, as ever, by the Yellow Fever. Good effort from the Mariner's. Still going for the equaliser when down to 10 men. The booing when their player was taking the deserved penalty was disgraceful. No need to stoop to that level.
Do you want everyone to stand and applaud Matt Simon? What? The whole point of any active support is to intimidate the away team, which includes booing, and even includes abusing and making the home stadium a living hell in some Eastern European countries. Something soccer fans have been doing since before you were born (and judging by all those spaces between sentences, it was a little while ago). Booing is merely an off-putting device by the fans, unless there was a bad ref call. This time, Matt Simon is just a pest so it's deserved.