They are an absolute joke of a team, more like Sunday league with their brutal styles of play. Hoof, Hoof and more hoof also like to point out that ref was a joke, how the F*** he never gave that foul against Sess was unbelivable. Last point Henderson needs to be rested, rubbish again. Sorry if i seem negative, i am after watching Stoke... ARGGHHH
P**s poor 'football' from Stoke but it beat us, plenty for Steve to think about and hopefully the players will learn to not give away so many free kicks/corners. Sessegnon looks quality on the plus side
whitburn you can't forget about decisions. the defence don't have to defend off side and hand ball if the ref and Linesman do their June. replays proved off side and if the linesman cant do his job then they shouldn't be there. we got 1 free kick second half. Sessegnonruns towards the box and is basically rugby tackled off the ball. nothing from the ref. numerous fouls on Gordon (every set piece other than their 3rd goal). I have no doubt that the ref and linesman cost us the game today. Yes we could have defended the kicks better but if the ref does his job we would have won.
In this thread: Bitter mackem *******s who just got played off the pitch by Stoke. And yes I am aware we're getting beat 2-0 as I type this before I get told.
Marcus - I know what you're saying but the decisions weren't black and white. It was only offside if the ball didn't come off Gordon. The replays didn't prove it. All I'm saying is with the advantage of replays I'm not sure what happened - how can the officials be sure in real time? Good as Gordon is, I think we can relax about him being snapped up by Manu or somebody. He's very weak at high balls into the area - a fatal flaw.
theyre a disgrace to football. i would say they should be demoted to the lower leagues but even those teams try to play a lil bit of football.