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Another shitty week. I don’t even know if you’ll bother reading this because it’s just been relentless levels of frustration and misery. Footy is shite when the Reds aren’t winning and the last few weeks have been a nightmare. I won’t blame any of you for skipping this because if I could have skipped writing it I would have. I’m finding it hard to even get my head around some of this. Everton being in position to go above us when they’re quite clearly shit is really difficult for my brain to process, but it’s not just that. We’re now behind a Leicester side that we completely outclassed what only seems like a few weeks ago. It was men against boys that day and if you’d asked Brendan or any of Leicester’s players if they had a chance of being above us by the end of January even they would have said “no way”. Yet here we are, looking up at Leicester and United and City and wondering just how the fuck we got here. Well we got here because we can’t fucking score, that’s why. And now I’m having to sit here, watching MOTD, seeing goals fly in and points being picked up and I’m just feeling completely frustrated and pissed off. Pissed off with these other teams and their fancy ways like putting the ball in the net and winning games. Fuckin’ show offs. Pissed off with the completely inept officiating I’m seeing in virtually every single game. Pissed off with the suits who made changes to rules that didn’t need changing which has now only exacerbated the issue of incompetent match officials. And pissed off with our front three for all going shit at the same time and for not playing for and with each other. But enough of them, I’m sick of talking about them lately so I’m going to say no more about the Reds in this and just focus on all these other cunts. Starting with Leicester, who went second after a win over Southampton. Undeserved, not because of how they played but because no team with an away kit like that Southampton one ever deserves to lose. Gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. Give them a Champions League place for next season so they can show it off in all its glory. Actually don’t, we might be needing that fourth spot unless things pick up. Maddison has run into a rich vein of form of late and he put Leicester in front with a good run and powerful finish. The move started when Ndidi blatantly pulled back Diallo to win the ball but it wasn’t given. Fucking refs again. Southampton pushed hard for an equaliser and Armstrong hit the bar. Leicester had chances too and eventually Barnes wrapped it up with a breakaway with the last kick of the game. Chelsea ended their losing streak with a win at Craven Cottage but it was far from convincing. Mount got the only goal of the game late on but Fulham played a big chunk of the game with only ten men and still looked quite comfortable. Mitrovic must be really stinking it up if he can’t get a game ahead of that Cavaliero jabroni though. He’s awful. He wasted Fulham’s best chance of the first half when he completely missed his kick and the ball hit his standing leg and looped wide. It was such a great move too and it ended with that. The right back who played him the ball was fucking disgusted, and rightly so. Soon after Fulham were a man down when Robinson flew in recklessly over the ball and caught Azpilicueta. Clear red that one. Mount eventually broke the deadlock and then in stoppage time Timo Walcott should have wrapped it up when he went clean through only to shoot well wide. Someone needs to tell him he didn’t sign for us because he’s playing like he’s part of our front three. Staying with Chelsea, you probably missed this but Thiago Silva’s missus was throwing shade at Robbo on Tik Tok. Incredible scenes. Robbo posted a clip where he skinned Jorginho at Anfield and this soft cow went wading in with "Chilwell is better than u dude you even lost to Southampton." Where to even begin with that. It’s embarrassing beyond belief and I had to triple check to make sure it wasn’t fake news. “You even lost to Southampton” when Chelsea have been losing to every cunt lately. You just can't argue with stupid can you? Thiago Silva needs to keep her in check as she’s made him look a tit there. Brighton beat Leeds 1-0. Deservedly so, they were the better side and Leeds seem to have hit a bit of a wall since the turn of the year. You know who I can’t stand? Neil Maupay. I don’t like his face and he seems like a bad knobhead. He’s a diving cunt too. He went down when he was clean through, which normally makes you think “he must have been fouled because there was no need to go down”. Then you see the replay and realise that rather than try to score when he’s one v one with the keeper, he chose to dive because he thinks he has more chance of scoring from the spot. What a loser. Unfortunately as we know, the saying 'cheats never prosper' is horseshit. They do, all the fucking time, and Maupay got the only goal of this game from two yards out. Everyone else did the work for him but he ran off celebrating on his own. Yes, I know players have been told they can’t celebrate together, but this cunt would have done that regardless. Because he’s a selfish cunt. It was an unusually quiet afternoon for my boy Bamford, who is probably smarting as I am this week after all the criticism Jon Bon Jovi is getting due to some ropey cover versions he’s done of late. I’m not here to defend those performances, I didn’t even watch them. Why would I? I have no interest in hearing JBJ singing someone else’s songs. In fact, it winds me up that he does it at all. It’s like Adrianna said to me when we saw them play at Anfield and they covered a Beatles song; “I want to hear them play their songs, not someone else’s”. Exactly. I've never been prouder of her than I was at that moment. It baffles me why the world’s greatest songwriter would choose to sing someone else’s songs. He’s getting ripped for butchering them but all I’ll say is that if Tiger Woods was playing golf using a pool cue, he wouldn’t be Tiger Woods, would he? Meanwhile, I see West Ham have let Haller go to Ajax. Don’t really see the sense in that unless it’s just to save on his wages. Sure, Antonio is back now but for how long? He’s so injury prone he may as well be one of our centre backs. He broke the deadlock on his return with a close range finish against Burnley. That was the only goal of the game, which will have been a surprise to nobody, but I’m saying nothing about Burnley’s lack of goals as it will only end up making me look a twat and you’ll all blame me when we lose 3-0 to them later. West Brom beat Wolves in the Black Country derby. Wolves have been massively disappointing this season. They can’t just put it down to losing Jiminez either as they were doing shit even when he was playing. Nuno has changed from his tried and trusted 3-5-2 system and it’s not worked well. I don’t know why he did it but it might have been to try and maximise the talents of Adama Traore (you'll note the absence of the 'my boy' prefix). It hasn’t worked. Traore has been a flop this season and he’s making me look like a twat after I hyped him up so much last year. Add him to the ever growing list of things I’m pissed off with. Seems I was wrong about him. He’s got ridiculous attributes that should have elevated him to world class levels but for whatever reason he’s just treading water. He seems more concerned about fancy hairstyles and oiling himself up before games than he does about y'know, being a great footy player. West Brom’s opener came from the penalty spot after Traore had lost the ball trying to dribble through three players near the edge of his own box. In fairness, that’s what he’s good at and he almost got away. If he had they’d have been in great shape but instead he was tackled and a few passes later Robinson was caught on the foot by Boli and Michael Oliver pointed to the spot. It was outside the box though. It’s clear that the contact is a few inches past the line so I don’t understand how VAR didn’t overturn that. As I said though, virtually every game is marred by bullshit decisions. Boli was on a one man crusade to make up for it after that and he went close to equalising with an acrobatic back heel that went just wide. Another Boli back heel created the equaliser for Fabio Silva. Quality finish that, I love the way he used his body to block off the defender before he put the ball in the corner. Adama then burst into life and blew past a couple of defenders to win a corner. I remember when Gabby Agbonlahor would do shit like that before he went fat, and I’d often wonder if he shouted “meep meep” like the Road Runner when he ran past people. I defo would if I had that kind of pace. Anyway, Adama’s run reminded me of that. From the corner, Boli equalised and Wolves led 2-1 at the break. Then they collapsed. Ajayi headed the equaliser early in the second half and then Coady conceded a pen after tangling with Robinson. Pereira converted for the second time and West Brom had a lead that they would hold onto for a huge three points. Coady was hooked soon after giving away that pen and that will have been a killer blow to a man of his ego. Nowhere near as good as he thinks he is but in his defence I’ve been saying for ages he’d get exposed in a back four so it’s hardly his fault that his manager has set him up to fail. Nuno isn’t all that is he? I’m starting to think he gets so much praise because he’s such a sound fella. I’ve defo allowed that to cloud my judgement of him. He’s one of the good guys and I like him a lot, but so far his attempts to re-invent Wolves from a counter attacking 3-5-2 side into a more progressive team that needs to take the step to the next level have been pretty disastrous. I just don’t know what’s going on with refs now though. Fabio Silva was booked for an outrageously pathetic late dive. Fair enough, except how many times this season have we seen players dive, win a penalty, have it overturned because it’s a dive, but not get booked? There’s absolutely zero consistency to any of it. Another thing I noticed. Saiss gave away a free-kick and then just booted the ball into the stands in frustration. That’s an automatic yellow card, right? It isn’t down to the ref’s discretion, they don’t have a choice. Oliver did fuck all though. Bet you anything you like though the next time someone does it he’ll get his card out, and that’s the frustrating thing. These cunts are a law unto themselves at times, yet on other occasions they’ll be utter jobsworths and they’ll play the “I have no choice, it’s the rules” card. Pricks. Speaking of pricks, Aurier put Spurs ahead at Bramall Lane and every player joined in the celebrations, completely ignoring the warnings. Then again, Spurs have form for it don’t they? Mourinho had his players training in the park during the first lockdown so they clearly don’t give a fuck. A typical Kane goal made it 2-0 and that was game over because although there was a chance the Blades could score one, there’s no way they were getting two. When was the last time they scored twice? ....I’ve just checked and they’ve only managed it once all season, a game in which they lost 3-2 against the Mancs. They did get one against Spurs, when McGoldrick head home from a left wing cross, but Ndombele improvised superbly to make it 3-1 with an outrageous lob as he ran away from goal. Quality that. City put four past Palace. I have nothing further to add as I’m boycotting any games that involving manc teams winning. When they don’t win, you’ll hear from me. When they do, I have no comment. Life’s hard enough at the moment without watching these fucking twats. Monday night now and a routine home win for Arsenal over sorry Newcastle. Everyone is beating the Geordies lately, even Sheffield United. Well, almost everyone is beating them. *grinds teeth* Two from Aubamayeng and one from Saka gave the Gunners the points as they continue to climb the table. Beating the shite teams will do that. Not beating them will get you in danger of being overtaken by Everton. City won in midweek against Villa thanks to a scandalous offside goal and a penalty for handball that we could only fucking dream of being given. I could go on and on about this and how fucking stupid the offside rule is and how I hope the pricks who keep fucking with the offside law all die horrible painful deaths, but what’s the point? They’ll change this rule again because of this but the damage is done from Villa’s point of view, not to mention those of us directly affected by City’s results. Everyone who saw that goal knows it should never have been given but they’ll try to justify it by hiding behind the rule book and talking bollocks about second phases of play etc but it’s nonsense. I hear that Peter Walton cunt tried to defend the decision. He’s a fucking joke that fella. He’s not as bad as Dermot Gallagher, but he’s still a snivelling little bootlicker. If they’d given that offside he’d have said it’s an obvious one and there’s no question about it being right. They got that wrong because they’ve interpreted the rule incorrectly. The way the law is explained allows some room for misinterpretation but that’s where common sense comes in. I’d be willing to bet that if you showed that goal to the cunts who amended the offside rule and said “is this what you meant?” they’d be like, “no, that’s defo offside”. Dean Smith was sent off for calling David Coote a clown and for asking why Fat Jon Moss didn’t check the screen. Personally I’d say he should be given a fair play award for not killing the shit cunts. If you're a manager how are you expected to just take decisions like that on the chin? I'd have 100% punched Jon Moss in his fat fucking face. This is not the game I love anymore. It’s a fucking shitshow where decisions are now so egregious I don’t know if it’s down to incompetence or cheating. It’s impossible to tell anymore as some of what it happening just can’t be explained. It just feels dodgy. It’s dawned on me now that I actually hate football. I love the Reds, but I hate football and what is now is. The Premier League anyway. The game itself lower down the pyramid is still a great sport but at the top end it’s becoming unwatchable. I mean fucking hell, I’m getting angry watching decisions in games I don’t have a stake in. What do I care about Wolves and West Brom for example? I don’t, but I’m still getting wound up by the officiating. So many games are being ruined by it now and VAR has made the problem 100 times worse because instead of solving these problems it just adds to them. But anyway, I’ll get on with it and move on to the next game, one that saw Leicester going to the top of the table briefly before the Mancs overtook them. Ndidi’s first goal of the season set them on their way to a 2-0 win over Chelsea. Chelsea were awarded a penalty when Evans brought down Pulisic, but VAR said it was outside the box, which it was. Don’t really see how this was any different to the one Boli conceded though. Maddison doubled Leicester's lead and they had plenty of chances to inflict further misery on Fat Frank, who must now be seeing Guus Hiddink or Avram Grant shaped shadows around every corner. Of course he blamed his players for “being sluggish and not wanting it enough”. When Roman fucks him off there’s defo a career as a Tory MP waiting for him. It took Fulham only five minutes to do what we never looked like doing in 90 on Sunday. They took the lead against United through Lookman, who is doing a reverse Adama and making me look bad by looking like a really good player after I said he was shit. That was as good as it got for Fulham who ended up losing 2-1. I haven’t watched any of it other than the Lookman goal so I’ll swiftly move on and try to forget it ever happened. Not easy when you see the league table though. Cunts. West Ham beat West Brom and got to within two points of us. No, you didn’t read that wrong. West Ham, WEST FUCKING HAM, are two points behind us as we prepare to face Burnley tonight. Bowen chested the Hammers into the lead but Pereira fired in a low shot to level it not long after. Antonio volleyed in the winner but it probably wasn’t deserved as neither team were much good. By the way, can I just say that I hate Sammy Lee now? I’m not proud of it and I wish I didn’t, but I can’t help it. Can’t stand looking at him. I no longer see him as ‘Little Sammy’ who bounced around for us in the 80s and then used to make the tea and put the cones out for various managers. Now he’s just the annoying, sycophantic little ‘Robin’ to Allardyce’s odious ‘Fatman’. Fuck him. My boy Snodgrass is a Baggie now but he wasn’t allowed to play in this game as it was part of the deal made with West Ham. Funny that, considering you’re not allowed to do that anymore. Allardyce said they couldn’t have signed him unless they agreed to it, so surely something needs to be done about this. I won’t hold my breath. A points deduction for West Ham to put some more distance between us would be nice. Did I actually just type that? Fuck me, is this what it’s come to?