Shocking reffing display, truly shocking.
Was there today, and Mark Robins, I mean Halsey didn't just muck up the first pen, from what I saw we should've had a good shout a couple of times first half, plus for some reason he wouldn't blow for any amount of fouling in the middle vs Yaya, Garcia, a shove on Zab in the boc 2nd half and time and again against Kun!
First 30 we were slow and ponderous though at least a bit better re: passing accuracy, btu from then on it was one-way traffic and we deserved to win (though made it hard with relatively poor/non-existent final balls.)
Even though he may have appeared a bit selfish, Balo gave us a bit more oomph and desire to try our luck, and the final goal was a peach of a finish - in fact just like the one Gervinho scored for Arsenal, but Edin was more tightly marked.
Net level with last year's same fixture point now, and the rags have just lost to perennial bottle merchants spuds! Have just got yellow from Mrs for telling Spuds just how much they continue to bottle but looks like my hairdryer just about did the job this time, so am feeling (somewhat) vindicated!
And am absolutely loving baconface's rant about only 4 minutes added time being a joke and not allowing a team (read, rags) to chase a game (read, until they score.) Eat my schadenfreude, you sour-faced git!
