This weekend Nailsea received their second sending off in only 16 senior games. Reserve Team manager David Brace joined Alan Powell as the only two sent off so far in this campaign, but unbelievably Mr Brace was not even playing.

Minutes into the second half of the game away at Combe St Nicholas, Dave said something to cause the referee to send him from the ground and out of the car park. One onlooker quoted him as saying "funny how you didn't miss that one hey ref, you f#cking pr#ck". The referee then approached the managers bench and requested his departure, and tempers started to rise even more when Mr Brace questioned the referee's authority to send him from the ground, and it took both Roberts and Horton to remove Dave before the referee actioned his threat of abandoning the game.

Mr Ree-Yees, a regular Combe attendee said "it shouldn’t have been the substitutes job to eject him, someone should have rang the local zoo-keeper to remove the Ape-like fiend".

"Ape-like Fiend" Dave Brace

The injured Stuart Roberts was at the match spectating, and was called upon by the United captain Andy Roper to take on the role of manage. When questioned about the incident, caretaker Manager Roberts responded "well yes, I can see where Dave is coming from, it is very frustrating when these referees get even the basics wrong, and at any opportunity I advice them to read the rules when they get home, but I do not tolerate swearing at the referees, it is something I have never had in my game and never wish to, I am proud of my disciplinary record. I would like to add it was an honour when the lads requested for me to take over from Dave, and we should have gone home with 3pts if it wasn't for the referee choking - it must have been the heat".

Another home supporter, Mr I N Bred, said "the manager never actually left the premises, he hid in the changing room, and because the glass is frosted he had to open the top window to see the pitch, but we simply kept shutting it on him to make him irate…… it's the most fun we have had down here since we hid Gwendolth's Jam against Chard in 1989."