God what a finish to it all last night! Happy that the last ever derby at the grand old lady didn’t end in defeat, we didn’t deserve to lose that game, we stuck it up to them and they didn’t like it up ‘em. Beto gave their cbs a rough time, let them know they were in a battle, fought hard and kept the ball well and took his goal well. The difference in him since Moyes has come in has been remarkable. Branthwaite brilliant and O’Brien also doing a great job while not in his main position.
Michael Oliver, thought for a long time he was a very overrated ref and for the supposed best ref in the country, thought he was very inconsistent to say the least, could say a lot, lot worse.
Their head loss post match has been hilarious, from everyone, players, management and fans. If one of our players came out and described it as ‘their cup final’ post derby, I’d be fuming in all honesty. It’s not supposed to be an easy match and what else would you expect with a 98th minute equaliser? It’s actually easy to forget they’ve still extended their lead at the top after all this fallout.
Anyway, 10 points from 15, unbeaten in 4 league games, moved up a place, some kinder fixtures on the horizon. Looking forward to the next couple of weeks now, haven’t been saying that for a while