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Because Phil Dowd is an inconsistent c*nt and Vidic plays for Man Utd. And you're right he didn't get a yellow card for it either. Plus it's worth noting that there was not a great deal of difference between what Vidic did and what Belletti did yesterday.

I'm with you on that, it was just mistimed.

Yeah I agree it's a stupid rule but it's one all the players know.

There wasn't a great deal of contact but in those situations there doesn't need to be. With the ref being behind the players, 99 times out of 100 he'll give a penalty.

Sadly it was a penalty and Belletti's idiocy made that decision all to easy for Mike Dean.

Sh*t. Sh*t. Sh*t. Sh*t. I know this match has been full of individual errors and this may well be an overreaction and I hope I'm proven wrong but on todays showing I believe our supposed strength in depth is a complete fallacy and we will be lucky if we win anything this season now.

Ballack showed a complete lack of professionalism with that tackle, absolutely pathetic.

On looking at the replay it appears that JT switched off as he thought (as I'm sure all of us did) that Mikel was going to deal with the header, the most culpable for me was Hilario, that should have been an easy save.

What a collective brain fart that goal was.

Malouda at left back!?! Do I not like that. Fingers crossed that he manages to pull it off.

To quote Jack Bauer: "Dammit!" Can't say I'm too surprised though as this is a home banker for One Man Utd.

Just Like Heaven. :D Best get working on a playlist myself.

D'oh, well spotted.

Says a lot about Sampdoria's quality or lack there of though, doesn't it. I saw bits of the game after Inter were down to 9 men and by the looks of it Sampdoria were still playing with 4 at the back!! Little fact I picked up from the game was that Jose is currently on a run of 129 home league matches unbeaten, all the better they didn't lose tonight so that we can hopefully end that run on Wednesday.

How's Joe Cole playing, or shouldn't I ask?

Praise be to Drogba. :D

It's as bad as it sounds on Sky Sports then. If we don't win today I will despair for our chances of winning the league.

19 Kolo Toure (Manchester City, £5.6million). Talk about more money than sense. I can't believe he's in the top 20 earners.

Dean Ashton brings compensation claim for career-ending injury (Guardian) I feel sorry for Ashton and rated him highly as a player but how on Earth can we be liable for his injury when it was an England training session?!? It's not like we'd have instructed Wright-Philips to foul him.

Ronaldinho looks like he's getting back to somewhere near to his best if tonight's showing is anything to judge him by and he's showing Rio up at every opportunity which is always a bonus.

Try iRip (Windows and Mac). I've not used it myself but my friends have and it works fine by all accounts.

Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here. Here's the lead single Me And The Devil.

The timing of this couldn't have been much worse. Is it the same ankle he had previously picked up a knock on a few weeks back?

Needless to say it's shocking news, fingers crossed he's a quick healer.

Everyone played well today and did their part in the victory but my vote goes to Ashley, he was just about perfect.