It was only a little over a week ago that we were four points behind free-falling Leicester and thinking that third place was still a possibility. Since then, they won twice and we bottled two games and the gap is now back to eight.
They’re off over the horizon and we ain’t catching them. It wouldn’t shock me if we didn’t even pick up eight more points between now and the end of the season.
They fell behind at home to Palace on Monday when Zaha ran onto a through ball from Eze and beat Schmeichel. That Iheanacho twat then teed up Castagne for the equaliser and then he won it himself.
Iheanacho turning into prime Daniel Sturridge is one of the many shit things about this shit season. He’s been shite for about four years and now he’s just suddenly remembered how to play. Fuck him.
Leicester’s next match is against Southampton on Friday and given that the Saints have been on holiday for the last two months there’s every chance we’ll be 11 points behind Leicester after this weekend, as we’re clearly not getting anything from Old Trafford.
So we’re not catching and if we’re being completely honest with ourselves we know we aren’t catching Chelsea either. They have had the distraction of the league cup final and their involvement in the CL but it’s not hampered them that much and we weren’t able to close the gap on them when the opportunity was there. We fucked that right up with those pathetic draws with Leeds and Newcastle.
Chelsea came through their big showdown with West Ham this weekend and that result has probably ended the Hammers top four hopes. It feels like that was a game that had to win but in predictable Davey Moyes style they failed. They even let that turd Werner score the only goal of the game.
He scored just before half time with a close range finish but normal service was quickly resumed when he then missed an absolute sitter just after half time.
I know I’ve ripped the piss out of Werner a lot this season and I’ve taken great pleasure in being right about him not being all he was cracked up to be, but I didn’t think he’d be this bad and I expect him to be a lot better next season. It’s hard to imagine he could be any worse.
Lingard was a whisker away from an equaliser with a half volley that dropped just wide and then we saw one of the worst decisions of the season when Balbuena was sent off for kicking the ball and then inadvertently catching a Chelsea player with his follow through.
Honestly, the VAR and the on pitch ref (Chris Kavanagh) should just be sacked on the spot for that. This wasn’t one of those when two players are running at each other head on and one is out of control and catches the other after playing the ball. I have a hard enough time accepting those as red cards but this was next level. This was a defender clearing a ball down the line and an opponent comes in from the side, right across him and into the line of his follow through.
All Balbuena is doing is kicking the ball in a normal motion. He isn’t even looking at Chilwell, he’s just playing a ball down the line. Then that busy cunt on VAR (Peter Banks, whoever the fuck he is) tells the ref he needs to look and Kavanagh is such a fucking spineless little turd he goes along with it and pulls out a red card.
Footy is a complete waste of time now. We’re only watching out of habit because if it was like this when we were kids we wouldn’t have fallen in love with the game in the first place. All that stuff that came out in relation to the market research the Super League did about the attention spans of younger fans being much lower. THIS IS WHY!!! We only watch because it’s in our blood, but anyone trying to get into the sport now is not going to have the same passion because how can you?
All that fucking outrage about the Super League when the real danger to the future of football is VAR, referees and the moronic rule makers. That’s not to say the Super League wasn’t going to be a massive threat to the future of the game, but it’s not as big an issue as what we’ve seen from refs and VAR and the twats making these rules over the last couple of seasons.
West Ham would have been justified in just walking off the field after that decision. I’m not even joking. Moyes could have just taken them off because that wasn’t a contentious decision it was just a scandalous error or it was just bent, take your pick. It was a black and white, 100% NOT a red card and West Ham should have refused to continue until it was overturned. They had a potential Champions League spot at stake here and THAT happens?
The exact same thing happened a few minutes later when Coufal cleared the ball and his studs ended up catching Rudiger on the thigh. VAR wasn’t interested this time. No need this time as between him and Kavanagh they’d already done what he wanted and fucked West Ham over (to what end I don’t know, but it’s obvious you don’t make a decision like that unless you’re wanting to shaft the team involved).
Imagine one of your players being sent off for that in a game with so much riding on it. I’ve got no time for Moyes and he usually needs little encouragement to complain about refs, but under the circumstances he was extremely dignified for once. Like I say, I’d have taken my team off the field and refused to play until they overturned the decision. Of course it's been overturned since, but what fucking use is that to West Ham now? What a fucking joke.
Meanwhile, Graeme Potter was sporting a shiner and a cut on his cheekbone as Brighton travelled to Bramall Lane. He “fell over at the beach” apparently. Nah, not having that. Defo more to it, although I’m not going to speculate as to what. If it was Pardew then the obvious conclusion would be “angry jealous husband” though.
Clearly, whatever the cause was, it hasn’t been a good week for Potter as his team lost to the already relegated Blades. McGoldrick’s scruffy goal proved decisive.
Moder thought he had equalised but VAR showed he was offside. I’ve said before how Brighton just seem to have a shitload of players I’ve never heard of and they wheel out at least one every week. Where’s this Moder cunt been all season?
Maupay blasted over the bar from two yards as Brighton’s lack of goals cost them another result. They’re like a Poundland version of us but at least they have an excuse for their lack of goals. By excuse I mean Danny Welbeck.
Moving on, and my God I fucking hate Arsenal so much. It’s not the usual kind of football hatred, which is usually borne out of rivalry or the team actually being really good. Hatred is probably the wrong word. I hate Everton. I don’t hate Arsenal. With Arsenal it’s more just complete disdain than anything else. They absolutely disgust me. They’re pathetic and weak and shit and it terrifies me that I’m seeing similarities with our team and theirs recently.
They completely dominated against Everton but lost to a late Richarlison goal from a weak, pathetic cross that Leno allowed to squirm under him. Richarlison had the fucking nerve to do some shitty goal celebration dance, and I can honestly say I’ve never wanted to punch anyone more as they celebrated a goal. Probably wouldn’t have bothered me if it had been anyone else, but that Richarlison cunt is the biggest cunt in football and I absolutely fucking loathe the loathsome cunt.
You know how there are players you hate but you know if the Reds signed him you’d immediately be on board with it? Like, for example, Harry Kane. If we signed him I’d be the world’s biggest hypocrite as I’d instantly love him. If we signed Richarlison I’d still despise him no matter what he did in a red shirt. He’s just the fucking worst. Cunt.
Burnley eased their relegation worries by battering Wolves at Molyneux. Did they even have relegation worries though? The table suggested they were in danger but I think we all knew they were going to be fine. I don’t even know how they ended up so low in the table as it didn’t feel as though they were on a terrible run. One minute Fulham and West Brom were targeting Brighton and Newcastle, the next minute Burnley were the ones closest to them.
Not any more. Not after this emphatic win. Wood turned Coady inside out for the opener. Coady is shit, I’ve been saying it for ages but it feels like nobody else can see it. Wood added a second following an under-hit pass from Traore.
Vydra missed a sitter after Traore had lost it in a dangerous area again. The beefcake could have been sent off soon after for shoving his hand into the face of Jack Cork during a bit of a scuffle. I’m not in favour of red cards for that kind of thing but what irks me is that had Cork gone down and made a meal of it, Traore would defo have been off. Cork didn’t make a big deal of it though, he just gestured to the ref that he’d been hit in the face. VAR had a look and the outcome was a yellow.
So the lesson here is that you get rewarded for cheating and Traore is lucky he did it against Burnley (if any of their players had thrown themselves to the floor after something like that they’d have been laughed out of the club as they’re pretty old school). If it had been someone like Son, Fernandez, Richarlison or any similar type of cheating fuck then Traore would be serving a three game ban now.
Wood completed his hat-trick with a close range header from a corner and Westwood lashed in number four. The score didn’t flatter them either as they had several other good chances.
I don’t know what the deal is with Wolves. They should be so much better than this. They were fucking woeful in this game and they’re right up there with us as the biggest under-achievers of the season.
Their black country rivals West Brom are all but down now after drawing at Villa. El Ghazi’s penalty gave Villa the lead but Pereira’s penalty levelled it up. The West Brom pen was incredibly soft as I don’t think Konsa did anything. Diagne made it 2-1 and the Baggies had chances to make the game safe before Davis took advantage of hesitation by Bartley to equalise deep into stoppage time.
Villa are still without Grealish and their season basically ended when he got injured. They were well in contention for a run at the top six and then he went down and that was that. The difference he makes is incredible. With him they’re a pretty good side. Without him they’re no better than the likes of West Brom and Fulham.
I skipped through the 0-0 between Leeds and the Mancs but I did catch a line from the commentator at the beginning that jumped out at me. “This is the one game Leeds fans will have had circled on their calendar when the fixtures come out. This is the game that means the most to them”. Does it really though? When they can’t actually be there to see it?
I know everyone just has to try and get on with it, especially the TV companies, but this pretence is irritating me now. Why are we trying to make out things are the same? Talk about ‘home records’ and ‘massive games’ and United not having lost away all season. All of it is just fucking bollocks. I realise we can’t strike this season from the record books but there really does need to be a massive asterisk next to it.
This isn’t sour grapes just because it’s United, but that away record of theirs just doesn’t compare with a team that has actually done it in front of hostile away crowds. Similarly our home record this season is a farce too. Yeah, we’ve been shite, but losing six in a row at Anfield has literally never happened before. It’s only happened now because the stadiums are empty and this isn’t even real footy.
City didn’t play in the league this week as they had the League Cup final against Spurs and then the trip to Paris to face PSG in the CL semi. They won both. The twats. I didn’t watch the final but I saw on the news the images of Son crying. Little fucking wanker. I hate him, he’s the biggest phoney in the league, the fake nice guy twat. “Oh look at poor Son crying. Look how much it means to him”. No, fuck off. It’s all part of an act. Horrible little prick him.
I probably should have asked my mum if she’d seen it as no doubt she’d have gone off on one as she hates him even more than I do. In fact, it’s because of her that I’ve seen through this act of his. I’m glad City won because it again highlights how their cheating has made English football almost a non-competitive sport now. Virtually nobody else is winning any of those domestic cups and the only thing that stopped them winning the FA Cup again too was another massively bankrolled oil club.
And the only teams standing in their way in the CL will be an oil club too. Either Chelsea or PSG, because Real Madrid are shite. PSG ain’t all that either. You know how I know that? Because they’ve got an ex-Everton player in their midfield and he wasn’t even the best player at Everton when he was there. If he wasn’t even that good at Everton, then PSG’s standards aren’t that high. Whatsmore, they’ve got a former United man in there too. One who wasn’t one of their best players even in the worst team they’d had in decades.
There’s a real whiff of the Madrid Galacticos about them. All the money is tied up in the stars and then they’re having to fill in the rest of the squad with losers from the likes of Everton. City have one foot in the final now but PSG do still have enough star quality to turn that around. And at least they won’t be handicapped by some fucking blueshite this time.
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