Other games 3/4 April 2010

[Slim]

The Guardian website recognises where Cole got his inspiration from anyway:

"What a finish this is! Malouda bustles down the left, shrugging off about 37 challenges by Fletcher. When he's level with the six-yard box, he rolls a crisp pass along the floor towards Cole, who with his back to goal, Daniel Aggers a delicious backheel into the right-hand corner, Van der Sar utterly confused."

[Craig_H]

Hopefully the one man team might struggle to find a goal without their shrek.

Chelsea looking like they're easily capable of more.

[wiw]

Next goal is huge. Chelsea's performance reminds me of us - those games where we do 99 things out of 100 right and then concede a soft goal or the other team does something really flukey

**** OFF that was a pen

[Craig_H]

Incredibly uncharacteristic of Mike Dean (or most refs, to be fair) not to give the mancs a peno.

Chelsea might need another goal or two, cos i can see the mancs given one at some point later, especially as they just had that one turned down.

[Craig_H]

To be honest, that should've been a peno

[Slim]

It was certainly more of a pen than the one they got against us.

[wiw]

He made the most out of minimal contact though, he got a touch and flopped over

How isn't that a booking

[Craig_H]

It was certainly more of a pen than the one they got against us.

In that it was actually IN the box this time, yes

[Guest]

Never a penalty there, he made a feast out of it.

[Slim]

In that it was actually IN the box this time, yes

[Craig_H]

Oooh, Anelka barged right over in the box - no penalty. Ref's evened it out.

Can you imagine the self combustion of ginsoak if the ref had given Chelsea a peno there?

[Shaggy]

Berbatov £32m proper crap.

[Craig_H]

To be honest, the manc one was more a pen for me, but they were both in the "i've seen them given" category.

[Craig_H]

Just seen the Anelka one again - penalty for me. Neville makes zero contact with the ball and just barges Anelka out of it. Clearly a foul. And in the box so it's a peno.

Both should've been penalties IMO.

[wiw]

Now that was a ****ing pen!