Face in a crowd: North striker Nigel Hutton is surrounded by Wanderers in a packed six-yard box. (0766037)

North 2, Jersey Wanderers 3 (after extra time)
DANIEL TARDIVEL’S hat-trick sunk brave North’s Junior ‘Upton’ hopes at the Corbet Field.

But, sadly, the individuals who caught the eye more than any of the players were two of the match officials.

Jersey’s linesman Mark Le Cornu and veteran referee Geoff Ogier had matches to forget – and that is being polite.

North raged over Le Cornu’s plainly wrong decision to allow Tardivel to race away and score Wanderers’ first-half equaliser. And Ogier, who carded several players and sent off North’s Nigel Hutton, might wish to ponder his performance, which included blowing for half time in the extra half-hour approximately five minutes early.

Wanderers certainly had the edge over a younger North outfit for whom keeper Tom Creed played the match of his young life.

He kept his team in it until sub Aaron Lamb bundled the ball over the line and forced extra-time with an unexpected equaliser for the Guernsey champions late on.

And no player gave more on either side than North’s talented skipper Scott Bougourd who ran himself into the ground as well as proving a constant menace to the Jersey side.