Monmouth Town's Kingfishers started without the injured Dan Spence, the influential Andrew Smith and the AWOL top scorer Phil Tranter, were denied three perfectly good goals, and were forced to play the last quarter of the match with nine men.
And they still should have won comfortably against promotion hopefuls Cwmaman Institute, who were on a nine-match unbeaten run.
As early as the fifth minute, Monmouth had forced the ball a good two feet over the line through Matthew Bowen, but inexplicably the referee waved play on as Cwmaman cleared their lines, and then spent the rest of the first half raiding down either flank and giving the Cwmaman-based back line a good work our for the first half.