03 Feb 2021 08:23:11
Well then, just after we'd recovered from the last one.

Unlike Leicester, which was quite frankly a professional football side giving up, I have a bit more sympathy for the side last night.

9 players out injured, a player handing in a transfer request and demanding more game time who does that after 80 seconds, playing a side who found their mojo, and dealing with what I quite frankly think is on the verge of cheating with VAR - if those calls are for the other side, I'm not sure we would have had a penalty and a red card.

After half time we did ok to batten down the hatches, then 2 quick goals and after Jan went I think the team were so angry we just lost focus hence 3 goals in the final 5 minutes.

Funny as it is to say, I feel a sense of injustice. Watching it live I couldn't see how they'd given Che offside, and at 4-1 we would probably go on to lose maybe 5 or 6.

Martial dives, VAR check, and somehow they get a penalty and Jan is sent off for at worst breathing on his back. Scandalous.

This goes to show how important Vestergaard, KWP and Diallo are after only a few months or games in the XI. I'd still have this happen once a season for Ralph to stay forever mind.

And at least we already have 29 points this time 😬.


1.) 03 Feb 2021
03 Feb 2021 09:01:48
Remind me why we sold Christoph Klarer too?
Anyway. as you said, gets his first start after his transfer request. and gets sent off in the second minute. I don’t care if it’s 1st or 300th appearance, the tackle was a leg breaker, a disgrace! Studs up into the thigh!

What this loss highlighted was how bad Stephens really is! I noticed that Man U players were standing in space in our box and Stephens never seemed to move to mark his man . bizarre and amateurish.

As for loaning out Vokins and Valery and playing Ramsey, one of Ralph’s stranger decisions.

From +7 to -2 goal difference 🙈

Bednerek sending off . VAR is allowing referees to watch a monitor over and over again to make a terrible decision.


2.) 03 Feb 2021
03 Feb 2021 14:48:59
On our Live Chat the general view was there was no contact and it wasn’t a penalty. We expected Martial to get booked but as we have seen with VAR, common sense goes out the window. Shocker of a decision.


3.) 05 Feb 2021
05 Feb 2021 22:16:01
Our first XI and subs to come on are amongst the top 7-8 in the league. The owners and board don’t seem to understand that you can’t have a nucleus of 16 to get you anywhere. We need cover in probably 6 more positions (I’d always like to have a first team and an entire second team of players you’d be happy to play in a league game if necessary, though that isn’t always possible or practical) .

I agree that Ralph’s decisions on youth seem a bit strange, letting our back up full backs leave and Ramsay looked very out of his depth. Our first team is top quality, but we let half a dozen decent back up players leave on loan and we don’t seem to have the depth to cover for it.

If they’re fit, AM, RB, KWP, JB, JV, JWP, ID, SA, TM, CA and DI is a quality XI. Diallo looks another gem as well. At least relegation isn’t on the agenda this season.