Four-goal hero Ross Allen powers past a Trinity defender at the College Field on Saturday. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0841342)

Rangers 4, Trinity 3 (AET)

FOUR-GOAL Ross Allen scored a winner of utter brilliance to settle an amazing Deloitte Jeremie Cup quarter-final at the College Field.

Deep into extra-time of a match of three red cards no sooner had David Le Roux made it 3-3 for nine-man Trinity than Allen, straight from the re-start, went on a run normally reserved for the school playground.

Green-shirted player after player was left in his wake as he went in a direct line for the visitors’ goal and, having eased passed as many as six players, he nonchalantly rolled the ball past the keeper Jimmy Styles with the side of his left foot.

If a better goal is scored locally this season I will be as amazed as the watching Trinity camp were on this occasion.

But Allen’s goal was only a small part of another remarkable Rangers game which swung one way, then the next and was stacked full of controversy.

Referee George Jennings straight red-carded Piers Ockleford after 40 minutes with Rangers one up and Trinity had forced extra-time when they, too, were hit hard by the ref’s hard line on the back-chat.

Extra-time was only three minutes old when Tommy Titshall talked his way into a second yellow card and early into the second period of the added half-hour defender Scott Jones followed him into the pavilion for a second yellow, this time for deliberate handball.