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Ashley looks up for it.

Damn you Craig Gordon, DAMN YOU!!

Well, Carew looks lazy and disinterested.

Cueller, Warnock, Downing and Heskey have been poor today. Warnock will probably be OK after half time - we know he can do it. As for the others, Cueller needs to come off for one of the 2 perfectly capable replacements. Downing may aswell stay on although if he continues being this poor Albrighton deserves a run. Heskey can have 10 minutes to prove he's adding soemthing or he'll be off. That's my thoughts anyway.

Well done lads. Very entertaining and we won!

Downing is a tit.

Heskey held back. Nothing given.

Our boys making the ref aware of his ability to do his job - excellent.

Gabby - Pace of a cat, brain of a cat.

How far can Jimmy run? He doesn't stop. Ever. He's like a terminator.

Get in there - Jimmy.

Downing continues to be poor.

Bennet, an older looking 49 year old chosen to ref a game like this which was always going to be high pace end to end stuff.

Good save - damn it.

Cueller has been poor.

Cock!

Jimmy, Gabby and Ash all playing well.

anyone got a clip of carrick diving, not winning a freekick, moaning like **** and then getting a free kick?

summed him up

I remember the one your on about, it was like Gerrard at VP a few seasons ago, they ask for the free kick and get it.

What time in the game was it?

Take Rooney, Drogba, Torres, out of their respective teams and the squad you're left with isn't significantly better than ours. After that it comes down to experience. The majority of players in the 'top 4' have bags of experience at the top level. I don't think many are technically or physically better than our lads, but they handle pressure better. We will get there in time but a couple of players bought in with that experience will give us a massive boost both on the pitch and in the dressing rooms.

Interesting too that the Chelsea lose Beletti to suspension for the same offence, yet probably far less clear-cut, yet United keep the services of Vidic.

This is a good point. The situations are near identical. Perhaps the FA should explain to us fans why there is so much inconsistancy?

In fact, what is worse for us is that Man City are one of the likely teams to beat us to 4th spot in the league. That game was at 1-2 at that point in the game so could have ended differently had the Dowd been the ref there!

So, if the inconsistancy favoured us we could have been better placed in the league and, perhaps, won the cup.

The real issue here is the way managers like Fergie and Wenger manipulate and pile pressure on referees through the media. Spineless people like Dowd will keep making terrible decisions because they fear the media assault should they upset the wrong person. Had the events of yesterdays game affected them instead of us there would have been a far bigger uproar from the media. Dowd simply made the decision that he believed was least likely to cause him any grief and that will always favour Man Utd.

Lawrence - I actually feel a little sorry for him. Giving away 2 penalties is bad enough. Doing it when Neil Warnock is your manager is somehing completely different.

JESUS CHRIST!! YOU PEOPLE ARE SO FICKLE!!! WE'VE CREATED AT LEAST 5 CHANCES, SHOWN TONS OF CUTTING EDGE!!

PALACE KEEPER BEEN BUSY ALL MATCH AND MADE SOME GREAT SAVES!! GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!

OK, take a break and come back in 15....

Gabby is doing nothing. MON may aswell bring homself on!

Gabby off! Delfouneso on! Come on MON. If we can't keep them out for 10 minutes we shouldn't be in this competition anyway!