kpc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Total capitulation in the second half at St > Andrews. Should have been level at half-time > either through Johnson's chance or a stonewall > penalty for handball, but the tone was already set > by then. Unnecessary bookings for two defenders in > the first half, with the first goal coming from a > pointless foul. Carr gave the ball away cheaply > for the second goal and Johnson tapped in for the > third when he could easily have cleared. Except > for Foster, Carr and Jerome, nobody played well. > Big games coming up - we could effectively go out > of both cups and lose to bitter local rivals in an > eight day period. Thank god for brilliant bar > staff and Crabbies Ginger Ale with large whiskies. Bowyer reverted to type by hacking at all and sundry and how the tackle on Fabregas was deemed to be a yello is beyond me. Birmingham should have had a penalty but then I think they shoul have only had 10 men on the pitch. Talking of which, yet another demonstration of idiosyncratic refereeing reared its head in the Baggies game against the mancs. How can it be that anyone who watched this game, other than the ref who had a stinker, agreed that Neville should have walked. In fainess he missed a stonewall penalty for the mancs, but by then they should have been down to 10. Anybody else think that had it been a Baggies defender felling a manc, he would have remained on the pitch. No, I thought not.