Tim Sherwood maintains his 0% record with Villa. Worst Villa manager ever, by his standards, I guess. Roger East manages to mistake Wes Brown for John O'Shea at Old Trafford, sending the wrong player off. Haven't seen the incident, but it sounds like quite a ****-up, doesn't it? Southampton have now failed to score in three consecutive league games, with only one goal in five. Problems for Koeman. Might need to switch things up.
Just seen a picture of it: please log in to view this image The only case of mistaken identity possible in that one is if you're wondering why Tevez is playing for Utd again.
LVG now Lucky Van Gaal? I suspect if VanP had not been injured he'd be playing, and Rooney would have been in midfield again. As it was ManU again struggled to beat a poor team, even playing 4-4-2. And I don't believe there is any such thing as winning but not playing well. There is no such mystical force, other than a bit of luck and maybe ref interventions.
Your criticism may have been justified on other days, but not today- 74% possession. And 30 attempts at goal. It was very one sided.
Lalana scores a brilliant goal that is rightly disallowed for offside then Henderson scores an even better goal...then a aguero hits the post...All in the first 12 minutes
That was my point LDL - you played much better in a 4-4-2 with Rooney up front. By lucky I meant that LVG was lucky that he didn't have to try to "fit in" all the players he wanted to play, with some out of position.
So Chelsea fans have been accused of racism again and Adam Johnson's been accused of being a sex offender. Another great day for the image of the game, then!
Sherwood gets his first win as Villa boss, as Ben Foster throws the game away in the last minute of injury time. Looked shaky all game, then dropped the ball and conceded a totally unnecessary penalty, which Benteke put away extremely calmly. Probably the right result on the balance of play, too. Disappointing late concession by Palace cost them the game at Southampton, unfortunately. Could've done with them getting something there.
Not the first time the words "Newham council", "West Ham" and "outright lying" can been used in the same sentence: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/plan-for-west-hams-ground-breaks-council-rules-as-upton-park-village-to-have-no-social-housing-10084156.html
BBC Live text taking the piss out of BT's piss poor coverage Spatgate Newcastle 0-0 Man Utd Posted at 20:40 Jonny Evans and Papiss Cisse squared up in midfield during that first half and television replays seem to show that both players spat at each other. "Jonny Evans is not that kind of guy," says Paul Scholes on BT Sport. "What Papiss Cisse did afterwards is unforgivable."
**** results, barring our own and maybe Chelsea's. We're not going to catch them, so opening up a nice gap on West Ham's good, I guess.
What's this from the ManU match (quoted from BBC report): Smalling survives strong penalty appeal Well fancy that.
Deffinate pen, ref was unsighted and the way the ball went looked like Smalling got it but the lino could see plain as day
