i have always blamed the referees and i am certainly blaming them now, my theory is the top or big four as they are called now have always had the dodgy dicey decisions, but apart from the atkinson manipulation they have not been getting as many, tonight i had to explain to my son why i wanted liverpool to lose, so i told him about when smicer blatantly dived and got a penalty off graham poll a few years back against city, then i went on to tell him about the infamous alf gray incident when he disallowed a perfectly good goal and while we were all celebrating including the players the referee was throwing his arms forward waving liverpool on to score, but for a couple of our players we would have gone behind, then i told him in the same game about how there graham souness took Nicky read out of the game but awarded them the free kick to which they won game, also i have always blamed the referees for our failure to do well at england level for the simple reason most of the england players play for the big four so they always get the decisions but fail to do so when playing in international level, whether this is just a blip on the officials part we shall have to wait and see but i really do hope that things DO NOT get back to normal?