Whitey Grandad

Poll didn’t think it was a foul, that was all, but incidents like this are ‘in the opinion of the referee’. Not your opinion, not mine, not Poll’s Oh dear, that nasty referee gave a decision against us. Grow a pair FFS.

It wasn’t 10 yards away. You’ll be arguing over which blade of grass it should have been on next. Do you have any idea how feeble complaints like this sound to any supporter of any other team? Please Sir, please Sir, that nasty player in the blue shirt took the free kick when I wasn’t ready! It’s really pathetic. It’s not a matter of defending him. How many times do I have to say this? We need to manage the situation and learn to defend. In the first minute and in the last. The other team is going to try and desperately attack us in the last few minutes.

And a sure sign that Pellegrino is not a judge of a good player.

Because in the vast majority of cases their decisions aren’t actually wrong.

I’ve just recovered the recording and looked at it again. The free kick was taken from very close to where the free kick occurred and no nearer to our goal. That’s if you accept that it was a free kick anyway but Redmond does grab at the defender’s arm. Besides, why the hell aren’t we trying to keep possession at that late stage in the game? Nobody has mentioned McCarthy flapping at the cross that Bertrand keeps in play right at the end.

And where has he been all season? We have had to suffer Stephens and Hoedt when we could have played him.

It’s not that I’m defending refs, I’m saying that we have to live with it. Decisions go for us and they go against us. Deal with it. Move on. Having said that, the time added on today was spot on. Cedric should have been dragged to his feet and told to hobble on and Bertrand should have put the ball in row Z instead of keeping it in play and passing it straight to them.

Not talking to you? I might give that a try

Works for me

Have you forgotten every other decision in the game? One questionable decision in the last minute has as much effect as one in the first. A free kick down the other end of the pitch shouldn’t be a problem to any team that wants to play at this level. It was always going to be launched long at us. We had plenty of chances to run the clock down but Bertrand decided to keep the ball alive for them.

And Stoke and... Actually there are shedloads of examples.

Yoshida only misses one game for two yellows so he should be available for this one.

Two draws might just do it. Lose to Swansea and we need to beat City and hope.

I think we would all have taken that after the Chelsea game.

Don’t push your luck little boy.

Yeah yeah, very adult. Does your mum let you stay up this late?

What are you on about? What did the ref do that you don’t agree with? We should have managed the last few minutes better. Cedric should have stayed on his feet whatever. Bertrand should have put the ball out of the ground. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.

The time is allocated by the referee and he is the only person responsible for timekeeping.

DON’T YOU CALL ME A PRAT YOU LITTLE SNOT.

Give it a rest. We should have killed that game well before the end anyway but a free kick to them right down the other end of the pitch shouldn’t be a problem to anybody.

The deflection for their goal came off Hoedt.

It was right up the other end of the pitch over 90 yds from our goal.

1 min 20 secs as it happened. He should have stayed on his feet no batter how badly he felt.

OK, when you said ‘forget Swansea’ I assumed we would get the 4 points from Everton and Man City.

That would mean that Swansea would have beaten us and have at least 36. If Stoke beat Palace and then Swansea they would be on 36. There could be four teams on 36, couldn’t there? Then it’s all down to goal difference.