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Booking him for diving, when it was a clear pen. Last season he sent him off for slipping over despite having his back turned to the incident, and then reviewed the tv footage and claimed that he was absolutly correct in his descsiosn, (ignoring the fact that he had his back turned , didnt consult the lineo and xabi slipped and fabrigas wnet down holding his face) . He let ebou off tonigt far too much, and didnt give an even clearer pen when an arsenal defender went through kuyt in the box. And henry fouls carra for the 3rd (watch again, its quite clear). All in all, hes a cheat AND a bad ref. Its hard enough when you are playing as bad as we did first half without officials being like that. And is it just me, or do we tend to struggle against teams who cheat? We dont seem to know how to cope with cheating teams against us who play dirty, dive, feign injury and waste time (ala benfica last year).

Thats what i think. Its the same with tevez, who i have seen play and is for me baros mk2. These 2 players have highly over inflated reputations and are no where near the worlds best.

#I see the henry rumors have gatherd pace. Betfred taking bets on him signing for us now.

he was unplayable today. And its about time he started playing like he did for brum.

neill is ideal for messis comeback game against us

well bergkamp was the king of stamps and elbows and getting away with it. And fabrigas has got more people sent off in the last few years than any other i can think of.

yeha, thinking that myself. Just hoping that newcastle will be desperate to bounce back after the trouncing by a very poor everton side today and that united will have a slight bit of complacency with the 6 point gap en all

How realistic is it that we can beat bolton, villa beat chelsea(at villa) and newcastle beat united (at newcastle)? 7 and 13 points behind them into the new year would be fantastic.

It just makes it more of a pisser that we didnt win on boxing day. Would have been 7 behind chelsea and 13 behind united now, instead of 16 and 10.

what, like have a lot of jammy luck?

i cant remember us dominating away from home this much and getting beat. our chances where massive chances last ditch blocks from blackburn that kind of thing. A mixture of bad luck and just not being good enough to break them down. and why the hell do players get booked or talked to by the ref for getting fouled by savage?

gonzales not happy with going off. Shaking his head muttering somthing!! Hang the b*****d!

With this fixture pile up im worried our players will run out of steam. I mean come on, a european cup final, fa cup final and must win league game to win the league all in the last 2 weeks, gonna take it out of them that is!

I spotted Steven Gerrard. Does he count?

Villa away and wigan away at the weekend for mancs and chelsea respectivley. Come on villa and wigan! If they at least get a draw the title race is back on!

Did anyone actually watch the game at the weekend? Gerrard spent an awfull lot of the time on the right hand side. The fact is regardless of where he is picked on the teamsheat, he roams.

Part timer!

its a good thing i only shop at asda

Yep, and whilst everything arsene touches turns to gold in the transfer market, the bad spell they had this year and last year isnt because they are not good enough (like us aparently) but its becasue the genius french coach is "reshaping" the team or going through a "transitional" period!. Boro beat chelsea 2-1 earlier this year, did you see the team they had out!!!!

Larsson is a fantastic signing for them. But hargreves>??? The guy was a national joke up untill a few months ago when he had 1 or 2 decent games. Nothing outstanding and i couldnt care less if they sign him.

Its not THAT phenomenal. Its a bit of a myth really. Most of the really promising players have been let go as they cant make the step up.

I belive we will win the league if we win all of our remaining games. However wether we will win all of our remaining games is another argument completley. Unfortunatly i think chelsea will win it. If we beat chelsea and man utd, that takes it to them needing to loose 5 and 3 respectivley. Man utd vs chelsea - one of them has to loose that game Both have to play arsenal, which if they lost(which i know is unlikley) would leave them needing to loose 3 or draw 4. Very likley imo. Alot more likley than us winning 20 of our remaining games, nevermind 23.

At the moment i would say not a chance. But im sure man utd fans would say the opposite.

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I havent got a problem with carlsberg extending the deal, but theyd better stump up the kind of cash that to be honest i cant see them doing. The reason i consider them to be a bit of a joke, is the fact that depending on who you belive they where supposed to have wanted out before we won the european cup, and the fees we have got from them in the past have paled in comparrison to other giants of europe, man utd, juventus, chelsea, arsenal and erm, spurs!