Sheaf Saint

We managed to do it with the question of whether or not we should leave the EU, so it should be possible. Actually, that was a poorly judged, ill-thought out clusterfuck that has inflicted massive damage to this country, so let's not do that again.

Well that's bizarre, because I watched the replay and the defender clearly and obviously left his foot in to trip Dibling.

He was an absolute disaster at Everton, due to being stubborn and tactically inflexible. Sound familiar?

No idea who the ref was, but I remember us playing Man U in a cup game our L1 promotion season in 2010/11. No massive howler decisions, but the obvious bias on display was ridiculous. Literally every time a Utd player fell over he gave them a FK, but gave us nothing all game. There was a moment when one of our players was about to break forward and was cynically pulled down by the most obvious professional foul and nailed on yellow card you'll ever see, but he didn't even blow for a foul. As for the most awful individual decision, that goes to Uriah Rennie for disallowing a perfectly good goal by Ken Monkou against West Ham for an imaginary foul, when what actually happened was he turned Ruddock so brilliantly to get away from him, he ran into one of his own team mates and fell on his arse.

The same reason it's wrong to plant two different types of seed in a field or boil a baby goat in its mother's milk, if you're using the bible as a guide. Most people, however, are perfectly capable of recognising why murdering people is wrong, without the need for belief in fictional deities.

I honestly can't imagine any scenario in this league where Smallbone is the right player to bring on. Whether we are chasing a game or defending a lead, he is completely anonymous - a nothing player who can't run, can't tackle, and consistently gives up any midfield advantage to the opposition by being utterly fucking useless at everything you need a midfielder to be good at. And if I'm honest, I'd rather go on a date with Savage. At least I would have a bit of a laugh before being ultimately disappointed. Widdecombe would just have me wanting to gouge my own eyes out within about 2 minutes.

Fucking what!? The person who didn't do his job properly today is Russ himself. To try and throw a single player under the bus for that defeat today is utterly unforgivable, among a whole list of other unforgivable moments from him recently. Any goodwill this guy still had left among the fans (and probably in the dressing room as well) is rapidly evaporating. Time's up Russ. Bye bye.

Carbon copy of the Ipswich equaliser. Every one of our players camped in the 6 yard box, leaving multiple players unmarked on the edge of the area. Fucking pathetic management. Fuck off Russ.

And there it is. Bye Russ.

Put me down for 97th

It's all very well pointing the finger at the ref, and he has been terrible no doubt, but in all honesty we've played shit today and don't deserve anything from this game.

No, we really haven't.

Surely Fatawu was offside?

Oh fuck. This is gonna be a penalty isn't it.

Hanging on by the skin of out teeth now.

True, but he's been poor in defence. Given the ball away in our half a few times under no pressure. Obviously happy with the scoreline, but we're making very hard work of it and are lucky Leicester haven't punished any of our numerous giveaways yet. After we scored our first, they took control a bit and 3 times in the space of 10-15 minutes they had an uncontested header in our box from a set piece. Not good enough. So while I'm very happy to see us take a 2-0 lead, I'm still very far from convinced by the performance. As for the ref, I have genuinely never seen such ineptitude before. Absolutely shocking.

Leicester player just went right through the back of Fernandes and Taylor gave nothing. Fucking disgraceful job he is doing today.

I'm looking at the team sheet, and I have no idea what kind of formation that's going to be. I could understand doubling up at LB against Arsenal, but Leicester? If Manning is the answer, what the fuck is the question? BBD not even on the bench I see.

Cardiff leading 10-man Plymouth 2-0 at half time, which leaves Pompey bottom of the table.

Yes. He had an effort in the away leg at WBA that took a deflection and although the keeper was already diving the other way, he somehow managed to save it with his foot. I do hope that isn't the closest he ever gets to scoring for us.

Lake

Completing my first ever 10k run this morning.

He won't though. His system is completely suicidal with the quality of squad we have, and he's said time and time again that he won't change his philosophy. If you know you have severe limitations then at least set your team up to be hard to beat and capable of scoring on the counter. Russ will never do that. There is pretty much zero chance he can "get it right".

Once is careless. Twice is questionable. But four times?