At halftime, the Finlay Milne-skippered Bay had dramatically gone into the changing rooms 3-2 ahead. Rowbury rightly awarded a penalty kick which Moses Dyer deftly slotted into the net for Suburbs to lead 2-1. "We had a good first half but you can't win a game in one half," he said, agreeing both defences were under scrutiny. A frustrated Lovemore said he saw the back-pass ruling "as a block and I think the whole ground did". That result catapulted Bay United back into the top-four reckoning in fifth place, one point behind Eastern Suburbs.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 15, 2017 15:38 UTC