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Konate should have been red on the Pen Jorginho should have been yellow on McGinn Konate pulled ollie down by his shirt from behind and no call Henderson should have seen yellow on Luiz ( I think) But I see those and complain about those because I;m a villa fan. To be honest, he's let several ankle tackles but us go unpunished. While as a fan I think he's biased, it may be that he's just not very good.

Mings played the ball does that not count for something? time was, that was not a foul, and that time was better. TBF, by today's standard it's a yellow

There is a Salah shaped bulge in Digne's pocket.

actually, i kinda enjoy it. it makes me smile every time.

another one of those days when we have to be good enough to beat 12

and no card for it. clear and obvious error but not subject to VAR review.

just don't change focus to simply hold this lead. We need to keep playing like it's even. we may well need another, so play like we absolutely need it.

ATM, we really are the better team.

that could easily be red for Kanate

it's not a bad lineup. Better than many we have seen, but usually, I can see the hint of a plan from UE. This time i'm not sure. I suspect we may be going a bit defensive focus (early at least) and shifting our attack a bit to be much stronger down the right (cash, bailey, mcginn) and letting Ramsey play with a bit more width and space on the left. if he can carry the ball down the left and put in some good crosses, I think Ollie and Luiz might have very good afternoons. It will be fun to see.

can i like a post multiple times?

Of course I hope we finish ahead of both, but if I had to pick a team to finish ahead of us between Brentford and Tottenham, it would be Brentford.

Can I still hope that somebody punches Bruno in the face?

So we will finish somewhere between 6 and 11 Not bad considering our Gerrard handicap.

You ARE going insane. 1) KAne was offside 2) Martinez made more of a play for the ball than several tackles on Watkins and Emi B that were no calls. 3) Martinez would have had the ball cleanly if Kane had not flicked it 4) it's still possible the ball touched Emi's right arm. 5) back to Kane flipping the ball, his intent was to flip it over Emi, away from goal, with no chance of an opportunity to play it - that's not what he was trying evidenced by 6) he was falling before any contact 7) he dragged his left foot into his own right calf to make the "trip" look more convincing. It's a strategic and calculated effort to fool a referee into thinking a foul has occured. when he could have easily hopped over the opponent as a true sportsman would 8 ) it happened in a context where fouls had been called in very one-sided direction for most of the match 9) see the two clips above to see that this way of looking at a foul is not a universal or consistent interpretation across premeirship matches. 10) even you admit that Martinez error was "speading his entire body" :For Kane to run into.....dive or whatever. (I would add that only one of the two made a legitimate effort to "play" the game in the way it's intended to be playd - Kane's effort was only to touch the ball away from play so he could cheat.) But I think YOU are missing the point. Was the officiating fair? no but we won anyway. We were that much superior to this supposedly "big" club. That's the big take home point. I'll take it, I'm happy. Kane is still a diving cheat and the referee was snookered again. after being "entirely coincidentally" one sided througout the match. Seriously, you are not insane, you are looking at the facts focusing on a few of them, from one perspective facts from a very di. I am focusing on those same facts but placing them in the context of the overal play and the overall match. The fact that our perspectives on it differ does not mean either of us are insane. it means we're fans.

With perspective, the officiating team was still poor, But that isn't the real point or the real story. We won. We beat the opponent despite the ineptitude and inequities in the officials. Well done lads. I've seen us crumble many games when the officiating was inept or biased. Winning despite the slanted deck is a noteworthy accomlishment. UTV

sorry, I would not be approving. I didn't like it when bailey went down easy and was moaning for a call. I didn't like it when Grealish did it either. It's cheap, it's cheating. I don't care what color the shirt.

US TV coverage showed Harry off side before the PK one time. briefly. he surely appeared to be off. no idea if VAR looked at it. But I doubt they did or they would have had to have given it.

Harry Kane

because of the agenda

offside and dive = PK Right. Need a ref category for "clearly bent"

Don't worry, this ref will add plenty of extra time

Romero in the book about 4 fouls too late.

Duran apparenly unfairly allowed the defender to jump through him

i think Digne scored a left footed beauty earier this season