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**** off. We finally mount an attack, they break and it’s oh so easy for them. ****s.

Ridiculous Rose dive gets Valery a yellow.

Ericsson free kick hits crossbar. Phew!

Bloody hell. Yoshi hits own post. What a shambles we are at the back today.

Yep, in centre circle, early in game. Refs need to use common sense and just give a warning.

Only a matter of time before Spurs score, we are so careless at the back.

Yellow for Romeu. ********!

Going to be another one of those days where everything goes against us. ****!

Cardiff winning. ****!

Can’t be letting Kane go like that.

So what are we looking at? Wins for: Saints Palace W Ham Everton Liverpool I reckon Fulham and Huddersfield are gone but Bournemouth and Leicester can add another nail if need be.

Oh Jesus, the Ottawa Senators have a vacancy.

That’d be awesome. If we can just get something. Probably too much to ask for us to pull off a shock win but a draw would help.

I guess in a way this highlights how difficult the job of referee is. Even with the angles we get and slowed down the opinions are still divided. The human element (not necessarily conscious bias) is still always going to be a factor. He must have been under a lot of pressure to get that one right but Man U are probably the bigger club so I guess it’s the safer decision.

I feel the handball decision to be the most complicated decision these days. So many factors and opinion is always divided. Used to be so simple.

Lol. What do you make of that VAR decision? I’d have been ****ed off if that was against Saints. His back was turned. Hmm.

Anybody just see the VAR penalty Utd just got vs PSG. I’d be pretty upset if that was against Saints. This is a really controversial moment in a huge game, we haven’t heard the end of this.

Welcome back Alps! Looks like we’ll be just fine now we’ve had your vote of confidence.

0-0 draw in Merseyside Derby means Liverpool now trail City by a point.

Fair enough. But I see the big clubs get very weak penalties awarded every week and then what I consider to be a much better shout not given for us. There’s no consistency at all.

Really happy for him. He’s often showed glimpses and then regressed a bit but his attitude has always been first class. He’s worked really hard and has taken his chance and at 24 he’s got a lot of time to push on even further from here. Ralph seems to have figured out the right position and role for him that had us scratching our heads in the past about where to put him and what kind of player he should be. Well done James, keep it up lad!

It’s galling isn’t it. The week Salah tumbled in the box with very little contact and got a penalty we had 2 stonewallers ignored. Yesterday Aubamayang went down due to a gust of wind, no hesitation...penalty. Later we get nothing for 2 very good shouts for a penalty. Later on ref has no hesitation whatsoever in giving Utd a penalty after Rashfod pulled the old “I’ll just leave my trailing leg here” routine. It’s hard enough for a small club with players that cost a fraction of the superstars we are playing to get ahead and keep the likes of Lukaku etc at bay. But for the way the games are refereed in favour of those superstars makes games like yesterday an exercise in futility. It’s so frustrating, an equal playing field and we may well have got 3 points vs a massively superior team but instead put I all that great effort for zilch.

Sessignon thought he’d equalized in last minute, ruled offside, was very close.

Safir Taïdir just scored for Montreal impact vs San Jose.

Shades of when Poch took over and we had a magnificent 2-1 defeat up there that Fergie said was the best away team he’d seen that season at OT. We then went on to survive comfortably. Hopefully the same is true this time...