Good write-up but I think the manner of losing is more significant than a mere point lost.
There are the individual games against them and the wider context of what is, and let's be honest here, a shameful and humiliating record of continuous failure against them which threatens to take on a momentum of its own, if it hasn't already.
Our derby record simply cannot go on as it has been for a single game longer. Enough is enough and that has to be the attitude from Moshiri down. Silva and the current squad inherit this issue and pressure, faultless though he and many of them are, because their predecessors allowed it to come to this.
It's embarrassing and an insult to all of the great players and fans that went before. We are better than this.
One victory alone will not be enough but it's the only medicine that will allow us compete in future derbies and rid us of the psychological burden.
The immediate task is to put it behind us and get back to winning games but I'm focused on March already - beating them at GP may go a significant way to ensuring they are out of the title race. They probably got a fright on Sunday but yet again we didn't strike a blow and they regard us as nothing, I want them to hate us and hate us good, at the moment we are merely an object of easy ridicule for them.
I was hugely encouraged by the performance but we simply have to turn up and score more than they do and stop being the victim.
