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A mate said after this that it feels like we’ve been playing the same game since January. It really does. For most of this game I was just thinking that this is more of the same we’ve seen in virtually every other game for months, especially at Anfield. The only thing that changes is the result based on the small details, such as shot conversion, whether our defensive errors get punished or egregious VAR interventions. The games themselves are pretty much the same other than the finer details. We play ok. Not anywhere near our best but rarely terrible either. We create plenty of good openings, some of which are turned into clear chances and some of which are converted. Mostly we’re just wasteful though. And the opposition rarely dominates the game but they usually have three or four decent chances, at least one of which comes from a serious error from one of our players (more often than not Alisson). Sometimes they take one of those chances, sometimes they don’t. Thankfully this was one of the occasions when they didn’t. Despite not having played for a couple of weeks we somehow seem to have picked up a load of injuries. We were so short of bodies for this one we had Ben Woodburn and Billy Koumetio on the bench. Don’t ask me where Ben Davies is. Injured, presumably, which is the second or third time even though he hasn’t played one second of first team football since he arrived. Anyway, Kabak became the latest centre back to be struck down so Rhys Williams came in. Klopp did have other options. He could have dropped Fabinho back there and drafted in Jones, Ox or Shaq into midfield, but he went with Williams and that probably says a lot about how Klopp views his midfield options currently. Ox has been fit most of the season but we’ve barely seen him. He’s surely done here now. If he can’t get games in an injury ravaged season like this then he’s got no chance when everyone is fit. Anyway, Southampton probably saw our centre back pairing and thought they could have some joy there. Unfortunately for them they were without Ings, as he’d surely have given us plenty of problems. As it was, they had a few opportunities but for the most part our lads at the back did well. Whenever Williams plays though it always looks like the opposition will get in behind him. I don’t know exactly why that is, presumably it’s positioning and angles and that kind of thing. His lack of pace doesn’t help but i he any slower than Phillips? There can’t be much in it, but Nat hasn’t been caught out as much despite playing a lot more games. The high line does neither of them any favours (Kabak got caught a few times in his early games too) but that’s how we play and changing that means changing everything. Nat has dealt with it brilliantly, Rhys has had some problems. It happened once in the first half and almost led to Southampton taking the lead against the run of play. We’d started well and had a few chances that we hadn’t taken, but then one ball in behind completely carved us open. There didn’t look like there was much Williams could have done to stop Tella getting in. There was no pressure on the man playing the ball and the lad had acres to run into. It would be unfair to call that a mistake, but the likes of Virgil and Matip never get caught like that (and Nat rarely so) so it must just be positioning and general know how. And because he isn’t the quickest he isn’t able to recover when someone does get in behind him. Tella did well to pick out Adams in the middle and we looked in real trouble until Alisson intervened. The save itself wasn’t anything too special but the split second decision making process that allowed him to make the stop was different class. So many keepers would have just thrown themselves at the ball and gone to ground there, but he used his feet to get into position and he then he made himself big to give Adams nowhere to go. Brilliant. He then saved the rebound too after Thiago had put Trent in a bad spot with a needless pass. And within a minute we were scoring at the other end. Lovely goal too. Quality spot by Mo to see Sadio in space at the back post and he had a simple header. 1-0 and a rare first half goal. Even prior to the goal I did think Sadio looked a bit sharper than he has done. He was direct and went past Walker-Peters a couple of times early on. Hopefully the goal relieves some of the pressure he’s been feeling and makes him feel a bit better about things, but I didn’t see any noticeable difference in him afterwards. He was alright, but it’s mad that apparently this was the first time all season that him and Mo and combined for a goal. I have to think that can’t be right but off the top of my head I can’t think of any. When you consider that Bobby has been garbage all season too it’s no wonder the goals have dried up. I mean fucking hell, how is it even possible that Salah and Mané hadn’t combined for a goal all season? There have been times when they should have passed to each other but didn’t and there was one in the first half here. Sadio rolled it to Mo and then dropped back into perfect position for a cutback only for Mo to take the shot himself and hit it straight at Frankenstein in goal. Easy to criticise Mo for that but it’s a split second thing and the cutback wasn’t on until the very last moment, by which time Mo’s head was down ready for the shot. Because it happens so often though it’s easy for people to see this as a thing, and maybe it is. I think it’s overstated but that statistic is alarming if it’s right. Anyway, we actually played some really nice stuff at times in that first half (Trent’s passing was great) but the finishing was wasteful once more. Sadio had a couple of other chances he didn’t take, Jota shot straight at the keeper (he’s doing that all the time lately) and Mo didn’t make the most of a couple of good opportunities. We even had a couple of efforts from corners. Nat headed just wide (first one I can ever remember him going close with) and Gini hit the bar. The second half wasn’t as good but we did still have openings we didn’t make the most of. And the longer it stayed at 1-0 the more confident Southampton became. They never had us under the cosh at any point but they always carried a threat and Alisson needed to be sharp to keep them at bay. It’s not like he had to make any great saves but he did need to be alert and quick off his line a few times to snuff out danger. The best chance they had was put on a plate for them by Alisson though. He played the ball to Thiago who rolled it back to him. Thiago pointed where Alisson should play it and he duly did. The problem was that Adams knew it was going there and stepped across to intercept. If the pass had been accurate Adams wouldn’t have got near it, but it was a horrendous ball that went straight to the striker. He fluffed his lines and Alisson made a save to redeem himself. He does this far too often for a keeper who we are always told is brilliant with his feet. It was starting to get nervy now and that wasn’t helped by Jota scuffing his shot after being picked out by a Salah cutback. That was a lovely move too. Great ball by Fabinho, good awareness and composure by Mo but an awful finish by Jota, who really looks like he needs a goal as he’s not been himself for a few weeks now. He was eventually replaced by Firmino whose first contribution was to back heel the ball straight to a Southampton player and allow them to counter attack on us. Kinell. He was decent after that to be fair, but it was getting quite stressful going into the closing stages given our recent wobbles. With about 15 minutes left there was a passage of play that made me distinctly uncomfortable. Mo picked the ball up in space on the left. There was room for him to carry the ball into but he delayed, stopped and eventually passed backward. Sadio gets the ball and he too passed backwards. A few seconds later Thiago did. It suggested to me that they weren’t sure how to play it. Go for the second or try and see the game out. To me the decision was obvious. Hell for leather to get the second goal because no matter how comfortable you might think you are, and no matter how easily you might be keeping possession, there’s just too much time left on the clock and you know all it takes is a set-piece or a mistake and three points becomes one in a hurry. I don’t mind keep ball when you get to the last couple of minutes and stoppage time but this was too early to be thinking about that. Presumably word was sent to them because I didn’t see too much more of that to be fair. It was a little bit edgy but not too bad and I think the lads actually did a good job of seeing the game out and keeping Southampton away from our goal. We kept pressing them and it was difficult for them to put us under any kind of sustained pressure and even the goal that eventually settled it came from us hunting for possession high up the pitch. I love that goal because we were on the front foot and not playing like we did against Newcastle for example when we just let them put us under pressure late on and shit ourselves. Sadio and Bobby went to press one of their players and they won possession. Bobby rolled it inside to Thiago and he took a nice touch to set himself before rolling a low shot into the corner. It took a little deflection that maybe kept it out of the reach of Herman Munster, but it was a well deserved goal that Thiago clearly enjoyed. Not sure who he was pointing at as he celebrated, maybe Klopp after the backing he’d given him in the pre-match press conference. I had to laugh when I saw the first player to celebrate with him was Phillips. Imagine if you’d told Thiago a year ago that he’d be signing for Liverpool and when he scored his first goal in front of the Kop it would be empty and the first team-mate to reach him to celebrate would be Nat Phillips, someone who he would never have even heard of this time last year. This season has just been fucking bizarre on so many levels. So what does this result mean? Fuck knows. We’re still alive though. Just. Any slip up over the last four games and it’s over and even if we win them all it doesn’t mean we’ll make the top four, but to have any chance of Champions League football we need to win every game we have left. Klopp said afterwards he thinks that would be enough. I’m not so sure, especially after City blew it against Chelsea earlier in the day. Those cunts never fucking win when we need them to, do they? So we can forget about catching Chelsea I think, but Leicester are giving encouragement to everybody with the way they’re going. We need to overtake West Ham before we can worry about Leicester though. That was made easier by our friendly neighbourhood bluenoses knocking them over on Sunday. Now we need the Mancs to take care of Leicester. It’s easy to say they’ll throw that game but the title hasn’t been officially sealed yet so they need to keep winning and see what happens. Of course City are going to win it, but if you’re in United’s situation you would want to keep the pressure on just in case. I saw nothing in this game to give me confidence that we can win all of our remaining games but it’s just a case of winning the next one and taking it from there. Problem is of course, the next one is at Old Trafford. Star man is Fabinho. Not sure why so many people think it’s Alisson. Most of what he did was what I would have expected any keeper to do. The first bit of goalkeeping to deny Adams was brilliant but no way was he man of the match for me. That pass he hit straight at Adams was so egregious there’s no way I could give him star man after that. Fabinho was great though. He just strolls around bossing everything and never wastes a pass. Fucking great player him and we’ve wasted him for most of the season by sticking him at the back. I understand why Klopp did it but if we could redo this season then the better option would be to keep him where he is and roll with the likes of Phillips and Williams at the back. Big Nat was solid again and all things considered Rhys deserves a lot of credit too. These lads weren’t supposed to be anywhere near the team but they’re performing well above any realistic expectations we could have had of them. Honourable mentions to Thiago and Trent as well, they were both very good. I thought Mo was good too. Deserved a goal really as he was lively and worked really hard. We need a big performance from him on Thursday as - like most of his team-mates - he’s usually fucking terrible at Old Trafford. Team: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, R Williams, Robertson; Fabinho, Wijnaldum (Jones), Thiago; Salah (Oxade-Chamberlain), Jota (Firmino), Mané:

Sunday May 2: Well at least we didn’t lose. The game getting called off didn’t bother me too much as it was nice to not have to watch it, but we really should be awarded the points for that as it’s a fucking farce. They couldn’t fulfil the fixture because their fans invaded the stadium (or were allowed in by club staff, depending on which account you believe). Sorry, that’s a forfeit and we should be awarded the points. Anything else is unacceptable, but Sky aren’t going to have that and we all know they call the shots. Bizarrely, I’ve seen a lot of “good on them” and “this goes beyond rivalry, we should stick together” type sentiments from Reds over this. I’ll simply say FUCK. THAT. How come these fucking scrotes are being hailed as some kind of noble warriors fighting for better rights for football fans across the nation? It’s mad, I don’t get it. Am I missing something here because I just don’t see it. They aren’t fighting for fans rights, they aren’t leading some movement against leveraged buyouts or demanding reform of the ‘fit and proper owners’ guidelines. They don’t give a fuck about leveraged buyouts other than the one the Glazers did. They don’t care about ‘fit and proper’ owners just as long as they have one. So spare me the ‘we need to stand together’ bullshit because when we were fighting Gillett and Hicks what were they doing? Waving American flags and chanting USA from the away end at Anfield, that’s what. The Glazers have been there donkeys years and for most of that period the majority of their fans tolerated it because they were winning. They had a home game a couple of days ago so where was this protest then? Half of these cunts didn’t even know why they protesting. Some of the ones I saw interviewed were going on about the fucking Super League. Y’know, the Super League that isn’t happening. There is no fucking way United fans did what they did today because the Glazers wanted to be part of a European Super League. Not a fucking chance. In fact, had the Super League idea gained traction and the Glazers had said they wanted no part of it, Old Trafford would have been filled with the very same mutants today kicking off about that. Look at the footage of it. Look at the faces of those inside that stadium. As if they are there because of the Super League. Come on! They have every right to want the Glazers out because the Glazers pulled a Gillett & Hicks and bought the club with a loan that the club are now paying off. They’re paying a shitload of money every year just for the pleasure of being owned by the Glazers, so yeah you wouldn’t be happy about that. But…. It’s the world’s smallest violin playing just for the mancs and their ‘plight’. The Glazers have taken a billion quid out of United apparently. Obviously you wouldn’t be happy about that as a fan but it’s not that straightforward. United’s revenues are up massively because of the marketing and sponsorship deals the Glazers have brought in and they would therefore argue that they’re entitled to take their cut. Their cut is wildly excessive but it hasn’t stopped them spending more money on players than ANY OTHER CLUB IN THE WORLD. You can go on all you want about how it’s about time fans stood up and said enough is enough and that change will only happen when drastic action is taken. Talk about fan solidarity all you like and tell us how we should back United fans in their fight against greedy owners. I can sort of see some logic in it (but not much) but my instinctive reaction is to once again channel my inner Mr Pink and say… The Glazers have been there 16 years and - other than a hard core minority - United fans have had zero appetite for getting them out. You know why they are protesting now? Because City are winning loads and because we have a title and a CL in the last few years. It’s that simple. The Glazers are doing nothing different now than they have done for 16 years. In fact, they're spending more than they ever have. The only thing that has changed is they aren’t winning titles now and have had to watch us and City hoovering up big prizes. That’s what today was about. It wasn’t a ‘protest’ it was a fucking hissy fit because they aren’t top dogs anymore. Those who protested back in the beginning, fair play to them. The rest of these bandwagon dickheads can fuck off though. You know what most of these Man United fans want? They want their own Sheikh Mansour. They want to be bankrolled by someone who will massively outspend City. They might try and pretend otherwise, but that’s what most of those cunts on the pitch today want and if it happens they’d be insufferable in their gloating about their spending power. I genuinely can’t get over the sympathy they are being given in some quarters. Newsflash: They are second in the league with the highest wage bill in the country and they’ve spent more than anyone else in the last few years. They broke the world transfer record to re-sign a player that had left them for nothing and they paid £80m for Harry fucking Maguire. In a few weeks time they’ll be playing in a European final and will no doubt spend big again this summer. So fucking spare me this “the Glazers are ruining United” nonsense. I know full well what the Glazers are. I also know that these are first world problems that United fans are bitching about. They aren’t Newcastle. Or Blackburn. Or Sunderland. Or Portsmouth. Or Bolton. Or Bury. The absolute fucking gall of these entitled arrogant cunts making out they’re being so hard done to. They’ve spent over a billion quid on players in the last decade. You know what their problem is? They want to be able to spend TWO billion. Maybe all those supporting their protest and saying ‘good for them’ need to be careful what they wish for, because the Glazers are the only thing standing between United making Man City’s spending looking like FSG are controlling their purse strings. So I can’t stress this strongly enough. Fuck them. I’d rather set fire to my own face than back those cunts. Monday May 3: Heard a Red from a well known fan media group on the radio today saying “we sympathise” with United fans and that “they have good reason to want their owners out”. I’m sick of this shit now. I’m seeing it all over twitter too. Reds being all magnanimous and taking the moral high ground by backing United fans. Fuck that shit. So many are racing to try and reach the top of Mount Righteous but I’m more than happy with my place in Tribal Valley. People have lost their fucking minds. Showing solidarity with the same fucking rats who sing “the Sun was right” and holding up “Vote Boris” pictures with “Self Pity City” on it. Even the cunts on the pitch yesterday were chanting about scousers. And don’t tell me “it’s just a minority”. Is it fuck. It’s usually the entire away end and when it’s at Old Trafford it’s tens of thousands of them. All these Reds going out of their way to publicly support their ‘cause’ is making me sick. And now it appears we’re allowing them to rearrange the game at their convenience, possibly even to a time when they’ll be allowed to have fans in. So just to recap here. They invade their own stadium, fight with police, run riot inside the ground damaging the pitch and TV equipment, break into Covid safe areas, cause the game to be postponed and as a result of that they get to rearrange the game so they can actually come in and watch?? Fuck this shit. I’m livid. If LFC agree to this they’re fucking pathetic. Imagine them fucking bellends singing their anti-scouse songs all game while our lads no doubt shit the bed like they do every fucking time they go there. It’s quite fitting though I suppose. The fly on the top of the turd that this season has been. All those Reds backing what happened yesterday and wanting to stand shoulder to shoulder with these fucking twats, maybe think about that when you’re listening to the fucking shit they’ll be singing when this game is played. I want them to go under. To go out of existence. If that happened I’d celebrate so fucking hard it’d probably kill me. But I’d die happy. Tuesday May 4: Just caught up on this yesterday from Simon Jordan on Talksport…. “Gary Neville is a barrack-room lawyer who sits on PFA panels, who says salary caps are something football needs to have, while behind the scenes he’s talking about the fact the PFA should never allow salary caps to try and control football finances. “The centre of all of this is money, and the irony of this is Manchester United fans will say it’s not about money, but they’re making it about money because the Glazers are taking money out of the club. “The hypocrisy of the argument that ‘football isn’t all about money’ while you make it all about money, because it’s all about how the Glazers are taking money. “There is a selfish nature in football and it pervades football full-stop. The Premier League, despite the promotion and relegation system, has decimated English football – 90 per cent of TV revenues go into the Premier League and the other ten per cent is left for the rest. “Neville sits there advocating independent regulation – why? Because he’s one of the intellectual capitals behind independent regulation with David Bernstein and he wants a seat at the top table. “The hypocrisy of his ownership of Salford when he got a billionaire owner in there who is funding Salford who are, to my mind, losing money left right and centre, who probably breached financial fair play, and all of this is being utilised by Gary Neville to advise a soap box wrapped in hypocrisy. “Yes, these owners and the ownership models in football right now are flawed, but why are they flawed? Why has it got to his point? Because of the greed across the board in football and the hypocrisy embodied by people like Gary Neville.” Holy shit that’s amazing. That’s even better than his Ryan Fraser rant last season. Round of applause for that man, absolutely nailed it. You know what’s worse than the proposed Super League and the behaviour of those United fans at the weekend? Hearing Gary Neville soapboxing about it. Fuck that little rat. I’m muting the twat now. Not gonna watch when he’s a pundit and I’ll mute if he’s doing commentary. Ideally I will be able to live the rest of my life without ever having to listen to a Gary Neville opinion on anything. Imagine that. Bliss. I’m still seething about all this shite though you know. Each day I feel even more strongly about it. I’m so sick of seeing Reds doing this “be the bigger person” thing and thinking that backing them is the right thing to do. It fucking isn’t. I suspect a lot of it is down to this naive thinking that we might be on the cusp of some sort of football fan revolution where we can take back our game and fuck all the billionaire owners off. I’m telling you now, there is zero percent chance of this happening and the most likely scenario here is that the only club who will benefit from it will be United if the Glazers sell up to China or the Saudi or some other cunts who will just bankroll moves for Mbappe, Haaland and whoever else they want. The bottom line is the rich always get their own way. Always. That’s how it’s always been and how it always will be. Unless they’re up against someone even richer. Like PSG losing to City tonight. It’s happening isn’t it? They're going to win a competition they had been banned from. Hopefully there's enough medals left for the players after the lawyers have been given theirs. Wednesday May 5: That video of the manc screaming abuse at Souness and Carragher. Jesus Christ. Carra actually went to bat for them too, even after that. Personally I’m far more on board with Souey’s stance of “shut up you crying, entitled cunts”. The best bit of that video is how the manc completely loses his shit because of the contemptuous sneer Souness gave him. It immediately went from “scouse cunt” to “ARROGANT SCOUSE CUNT” as Souey got right under his skin. Meanwhile, SOS had a meeting with Billy Hogan yesterday (and they didn’t need to smash up Anfield to get it). They want fan representation on the board and for FSG to pay any potential fines for the failed ESL thing out of their own pockets and not with club funds. Both fair enough I’d say. Tell you what though, being the fan on the board has to be the worst job in the world. Imagine the grief you’d be getting, especially at our club where you have a ‘legacy fan’ v …. actually what did they call the newer fan? I can’t remember so I’ll just call them ‘fifa virgins’. Being the fan on our board would be an absolute nightmare so if that happens good luck to whoever it is. The United game has been rearranged for the 13th May which means we play them on the Thursday and then West Brom on the Sunday. United play three times in five days but the middle one is against Leicester so you know that’ll be the ressies getting a run out as they get everyone rested up to face us. I’d be fuming about this if I thought there was even the tiniest chance that we could catch Leicester, but we’re shite and probably won’t even catch West Ham, so this news was met with a shrug from me and no more. It doesn’t really matter and I’m not going to moan about whatever team Solskjaer picks as we only have ourselves to blame for this. Be funny if they kick off and cause it to be called off again though as surely we’d have to be awarded the points then. If it does go ahead it’ll be good practice for next year as we’ll be doing a lot of the ol’ Thursday / Sunday thing. So every cloud and that. Meanwhile, Chelsea comfortably beat Madrid to reach the final. And now they’re the only thing standing between City and a European title. So, *deep breath* One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow, one man on his dog, went to mow a meadow. Two men went to mow, went to mow a meadow….. *ten minutes later* Supporting Chelsea is a last resort but that’s where we’re at. City are the last club on Earth I want winning a European Cup. They weren’t even meant to be in it in the first place. The only reason they are even playing is because they can afford better lawyers than UEFA. No team has ever deserved success less than these cunts but it feels like we’re the only ones saying it as nobody else seems to be arsed. I see Madrid fans aren’t happy with Hazard who was laughing and joking with his old team-mates at full time. I don’t blame them for being pissed off as I would be too. He’s been a fucking flop but the lack of self awareness to be doing that on the pitch, in front of cameras, is staggering. One TV presenter went on a massive rant about it and said “Hazard has spent two years taking the piss out of Madrid. Two years. Kilos overweight. Unable to beat any defender. Many of you are saying, another Bale?" Another Bale? The same Bale who won you two Champions League finals? Fuck me, I don’t like Gareth Bale but the lack of respect he gets from Madrid is staggering. Being the most arrogant club in a world that contains Manchester United is some going. Thursday May 6: Arsenal had the chance to reach the Europa League Final tonight. All they needed was a 1-0 win at home to Villarreal but they served up a damp squib 0-0 in which it looked like they weren’t even trying to score. No urgency, no effort, no emotion. They’re a fucking disgrace. I’m glad they’re out because they had no chance of beating the mancs in the final. I don’t give the Spaniards much chance either but at least they aren’t Arsenal. Hey guess what? Chelsea are being linked with…. wait for it….. Mo Salah. Get the fuck outta here. I don’t know what’s going to happen with Mo and whether we’ll give him the contract he wants, but one thing I’d be fairly confident in stating is that he isn’t going back to Chelsea under any circumstances. For one thing, they don’t need him. Why would they splash out on massive wages for him when they’ve got more forwards than they know what to do with? Their strategy seems to be to buy up as many boss players as they can aged 24 and under so why would they move away from that to sign Mo? And why would we allow it to happen? The suggestion is we want to move him on to finance a move for Sancho. That might be true (although I doubt it), but selling him to Chelsea? If they do that, heads should fucking roll. The more likely scenario here is that Chelsea just go and sign Sancho and we’ll be once again shopping at ASDA, or more likely buying Neto. Friday May 7: Loads of content around today about the 4-0 Barca game. Turns out it’s the anniversary of it today. I didn't know, but my instinctive response when I saw all that today was to roll my eyes and cringe a little. It reminded me of how we’d be bombarded with Istanbul stuff on May 25th for years and years afterwards and the more shit we were the bigger the Istanbul obsession became. This is probably just me, and I’m not judging anyone who posted stuff about it or who enjoyed reading it. There’s nothing wrong with it, I just don’t like seeing it when we’re shite. It’s fine when we’re doing well, but when we’re shite it just feels lame as fuck to me. I want no part of it. It’s like “yeah we’re shit now, but how good was this?”. If we were doing well now I’d lap up this Barca stuff today, but it’s hard to explain. All those years when we were fucking rubbish and then Istanbul Day came around, it didn’t make me want to relive it and celebrate, it just pissed me off that we were a million miles away from it and that’s how I feel today. I worry that we’ll be back in the pack, winning fuck all and then every year when May 7 comes around it’ll be “CORNER TAKEN QUICKLY ORIGI!!!”. This season better be a fucking one off. In the PL tonight, Leicester were beaten 4-2 at home by Newcastle which in theory is good for us. It’s not though is it, because there’s absolutely no chance that we win our last five games, and that’s what it would take. Especially since the little fucking goblin basically said today he’ll be resting everyone when they play Leicester so he can play his best team against us. He didn’t say it in so many words, but the implication was clear. I’m not even mad. He can field whatever team he likes as we only have ourselves to blame. Win just two of the six home games we lost on the spin and we aren’t in this mess. Don’t give up late goals in our last two games and we’re in a much healthier situation. Be mad at that, not at Solskjaer playing the hand he’s been dealt. The pathetic situation we’re in right now is of our own making. There are legitimate excuses for not challenging for the title. There is no excuse for us being below Spurs (who have been so dire they sacked their manager) and West Ham. If we win our games in hand we’ll be just three points back of Leicester. We won’t though, will we? We have five games left and there is more chance we win none of them than there is that we win all five. Still, on the bright side there is only five games left and the misery is finally over. …. and that was the week that was.