Joke

The joke is every time we have a free kick in a good position, It ends up closer to our goal, :huh:

Welcome back. Lost again, have we?

So u think we make the most of our free kicks?

Fig was his shocking self, and has got away with loads off appeals this season

Thougt we played well and they had a very lucky night which we will surely get at some point.Plenty of spirit and effort and but one of the worst decisions this season in my opinion and one that spoiled the game for the supporters who paid at the gate and the tv viewers alike.
.QPR is the big one and I’m sure the Latics players will be well fired up for that one now.[/quote]

I also think we played well up until the sending off we looked ok without doubt the decision changed the complex of the match resulting in Martinez having to take off our only attacking midfield player and putting a more defensive one on resulting with little outlet for the forwards we also played well second half and gave a good account of ourselves Ronnie Stam did well and Lopez had another good game as did Jones and Boyce

My initial reaction one seeing it was no penalty.
When I saw the replay immediately after from the “behind the challenge” camera viewpoint I changed my mind coz it looked like Figueroa’s shoulder had made contact with Ba’s back/shoulder blade (which is a foul) & then finished the challenge off with a shove/hand off with his left arm into his midrift, so i can understand why it was given.
When i saw Gary Neville going over it at half time I changed my mind again & did the same about 3 times at full time depending on which angle they showed it at.
My problem with the ref giving it is that you have to be 100% certain to give such a big call & I’m not sure how he could have been.

With that in mind to then send Figueroa off is even more debatable. To do that the ref has got to be certain, not that Figueroa is the last man but that he has denied a goal scoring opportunity so in turn he needed to be certain that Ba would have got to the ball before Al Habsi & I don’t think that from his positioning he could have been even remotely certain that would have happened

Football is a contact sport and that was never a pen. All this talk of he touched his shoulder etc so it was a pen annoys the life out of me. Like most footballers now he dove / cheated. He went down far too easily.

On the Kone point, said exactly the same last night. He’s right off the boil at the moment. Ali is getting some stick but Kone has missed a couple of sitters recently. We were pushing forward late on in the game and Kone was strolling forward