United (H) Post Match Thread

Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
There were two penalties - one in each half. Blatant handball right under our and the lino's noses. And Aguero cleaned out and left for dead in their area in the second half.

That game should have been won by HT and by a record first half score since derbies ever began. But apart from our comical defending and Raheem's woeful finishing, the Time Lord reffed this game the way I fancy he has never reffed a game all season, and will not replicate it in any game win which he officiates the rest of this season. it had to be seen to be believed. I was left totally incredulous by some of the free kicks that he was awarding MANUre. Sterling got rugby tackled early on in the first half, nothing given. He then, a minute or two later, dribbles round three of them and Atkinson blows for a fictitious foul. And that was the pattern for the whole of the second half. Every contact, whether we won the ball, and came away with it, was sanctioned a foul. I was left wondering whether someone at PL HQ had deemed that the title should not be won so soon before the season finishes. It was inept reffing, it was bias, masquerading as blinkered!
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Apart from the blatant handball I agree with the vast majority of your post
 
Proy said:
Christ there are some fannies in here.

It's been a shit week in an otherwise ridiculous season so lets cut the bull shit, especially that surrounding Pep.

The league is done and we have 2 bits of silver. Calm the fuck down.
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Christ- has the complacency taught us nothing over the last week ?
This league is most certainly not won.
 
Chippy_boy said:
We needed 1 win from 7 this afternoon.

Now we need 2 wins from 6.

After next weekend, I predict we'll need 2 wins from 5. I cannot see us winning at Spurs without Fernandino and going there with morale where it will inevitably be having lost the derby and having been dumped out of the CL.

If god forbid the unthinkable were to happen and we lost away at West Ham, we'll need 2 from 4 and will have probably just lost 5 games on the bounce.

This is not yet a crisis, but it could turn into one quite quickly.
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Why do you think we'll be without Fernandinho at Spurs? Did he get sent off and I missed it? The rule on umpteen yellows getting a ban stopped being in force after the Everton game.
 
As much as I like him, and as much as not following runners in the second half also cost us, and a quite bizarre refereeing performance that really has to be questioned, Sterling cost us the game today, and one of the most memorable moments in our history (thrashing them to win the title) that was obviously there for the taking.

Will take me a while to forgive that.

We need to make sure this week is not the start of a momentum shift - expect nothing less than a massive scare for Liverpool at least now on Tuesday.

We were quite incredible in that first half and should have been out of sight. Losing that game the way we did is fucking ridiculous. Reminiscent of last season when we play well but can’t stop goals for shit. Totally understand the team selection, and it was fully vindicated by the first half. We do seem a little soft though when we don’t have everything our own way. We lack a leader in adversity perhaps.
 
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