Norwich keeper Mark Bunn is shown a straight red for handling outside the box as he charged from goal to try to deny Danny Graham, who had been played through after a defensive error from Michael Turner, who headed the ball back towards his own goal. Whoops!
And another handball which is (correctly) just, just a handball for me. Yes Bassong was unlucky that it seemed to bounce off his chest first, but his arm should not have been out-stretched like that. Both tight calls, but both correct calls for me.
We have had several similar calls against us like that, technically correct but harsh luck in the circumstances.
So that didn't take them long. Strange that with two strikers who could do with a goal to get them off and running again in Fletcher and Graham, Gardner took the penalty.
Was such a crucial goal, would have been daft to give it to Fletcher or Graham to 'get them going' when Gardner is a very very good penalty taker.
Yeah Gardner's the designated penalty taker, and one of the best at it in the league, why would you let a striker who could be low on confidence take it instead?
Yeah I understand that it was important. But you would assume that one of Graham or Fletcher would be good at taking penalties too and with 8 games to still play after this, Sunderland could really do with one of them finding their shooting boots again.
That's unfair standards to hold anyone to though, what chance do they have to compare to Lambert? On another level.
That particular quote of mine did refer to the Bunn handball. But a fairly irrelevant point, seeing as though I did later say that the Bassong handball was also correct. However yes, upon replay, Fletcher was indeed offside when the ball was played.
Sunderland, Fulham and Stoke have got to be the 3 most boring teams in Premier League history, surely?
