So you would have brought on a heartless waste of space in Babel rather than a quality player who keeps possession, can play in midfield, but is also able to offer protection to Konchesky, who was on a yellow card and was marking one of the trickiest wingers in the league? Hodgson has received a lot of criticism, most of it justified, but any criticism of him here is absurd. But then some of the stuff written about Hodgson on this forum is embarrassing. We were pretty unlucky today and had we taken our chances either side of half time and didn't have a ref who gave us nothing throughout the match, we'd have left WHL with 3 points. Not many sides will play as well as we did yesterday at their ground. Meireles and Lucas in particular were outstanding. Of course, all of that is going to be ignored by most of the people on here, who love to dig the knife into Hodgson at every opportunity, even when it is completely unjustified.