Jon moss

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Excuses, excuses...we weren't good enough, end of story. Blaming the ref has become a disease this season...playing the victim, kopite behaviour.

You say we weren't good enough yet once again we were put at a disadvantage like so often in these fixtures against the likes of Man United. The penalty wasn't a penalty and therefore, if you deduct that goal from them, the score is 1-1. Add to that Smalling should have been off for a blatant second bookable offence (unless they have changed the rules on that like they have with the straight reds when a penalty is awarded) and so we may have even won the game.

Sounds like you're too easily accepting of us being disadvantaged by these incompetent and biased referees. It's amazing to think that some of our own fans are that easily trusting that in a multi-billion pound game that referees wouldn't favour the clubs that provide the most money to the league and who are the biggest brands. It's an obvious way for them to behave, human nature really, but it is everyone else's job to point it out and do their best to not allow it.

Silva and Moshiri should not allow this to carry on without at least having their say to the FA, publicly as well.
 
Devising a strategy to win against a super power team that attracts the best players including our own and managers is hard enough. The ref on their side makes it impossible. It's so demoralising.
 
You say we weren't good enough yet once again we were put at a disadvantage like so often in these fixtures against the likes of Man United. The penalty wasn't a penalty and therefore, if you deduct that goal from them, the score is 1-1. Add to that Smalling should have been off for a blatant second bookable offence (unless they have changed the rules on that like they have with the straight reds when a penalty is awarded) and so we may have even won the game.

Sounds like you're too easily accepting of us being disadvantaged by these incompetent and biased referees. It's amazing to think that some of our own fans are that easily trusting that in a multi-billion pound game that referees wouldn't favour the clubs that provide the most money to the league and who are the biggest brands. It's an obvious way for them to behave, human nature really, but it is everyone else's job to point it out and do their best to not allow it.

Silva and Moshiri should not allow this to carry on without at least having their say to the FA, publicly as well.

Great post. I echo these sentiments entirely.
 
You say we weren't good enough yet once again we were put at a disadvantage like so often in these fixtures against the likes of Man United. The penalty wasn't a penalty and therefore, if you deduct that goal from them, the score is 1-1. Add to that Smalling should have been off for a blatant second bookable offence (unless they have changed the rules on that like they have with the straight reds when a penalty is awarded) and so we may have even won the game.

Sounds like you're too easily accepting of us being disadvantaged by these incompetent and biased referees. It's amazing to think that some of our own fans are that easily trusting that in a multi-billion pound game that referees wouldn't favour the clubs that provide the most money to the league and who are the biggest brands. It's an obvious way for them to behave, human nature really, but it is everyone else's job to point it out and do their best to not allow it.

Silva and Moshiri should not allow this to carry on without at least having their say to the FA, publicly as well.

Just to add to your points, factor in that the goal was scored around the half hour mark, going in 0-0 at half time would of made a massive psycolical difference for us and more importantly, them! Utds best 2 spells were after the goals when there tails are up, and they are "let off the leesh" so to speak, ive seen quite alot of them this season, and if things arent going there way, they tend to start making more mistakes and become vulnerible. Pogba's goal was a weight off there shoulders and helped massively
 
Just to add to your points, factor in that the goal was scored around the half hour mark, going in 0-0 at half time would of made a massive psycolical difference for us and more importantly, them! Utds best 2 spells were after the goals when there tails are up, and they are "let off the leesh" so to speak, ive seen quite alot of them this season, and if things arent going there way, they tend to start making more mistakes and become vulnerible. Pogba's goal was a weight off there shoulders and helped massively

This is another thing that just gets brushed under the carpet too. There is a mentality from a lot of pundits in other scenarios where the game might have ended 3-1 to just say "well they got beat anyway so...". But they ignore that goals at specific times can have a huge influence on how teams approach the rest of the match. That Man City Burnley game may have ended 5-0 to City, but Kompany could have gone in the first 5 minutes and at 1-0, City then scored a goal where the ball had gone out. 2 key decisions at crucial moments went against Burnley because it was a "big side" at home.

United had quite a few clear cut chances because we had to go after the equaliser. Rashford had one, Lukaku, Martial all in the 2nd half when we were far more open than we would have been had the scoreline been what is should have.
 
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