Shweaves

So I take it you're a fan of his? It was utter nonsense. Sure Enzo didn't need to clap, but it wasn't in any way sarcastic and definitely not dissent. Meanwhile other players/teams swear at refs and its brushed aside. Didn't Bruno Fernandes just swear at the ref in their loss to Newcastle last night? I think we've stupidly got a reputation for dissent, a hangover from the last few seasons. This season we have been given so many yellow cards and I think some of them are down to reputation. Joao Pedro got one yesterday for what seemed like a soft foul - he was goal side and the Villa player was already falling over. Pedro Neto's first yellow was for dissent I guess but all I saw was him sighing and an exasperated wave of the arms... No other team gets a yellow for that

Wins at Burnley and Arsenal take us within 8 points of top*. I would love it if Rosenior instilled that desire to win in the team and chase down results. *Note that I am not suggesting we have a chance to win the league, just that it means the gap between us and first will have halved since Rosenior took over.

He said as quoted on x.com? So he tweeted it? Or was interviewed? A bit of a nothing comment and I'm sure most people agree that Rosenior is less likely to win the league in 10 months than be sacked. That being said, it's impossible to win the league in 10 months - that would only take us to next December. Silly clickbait title - nothing interesting in Petit's claim.

It was a scrappy game in the end, good to see him get a win. I was a little worried they were going to tail off and miss out on promotion in the end, which would have been a big strike against Lampard after getting them top of the league at Christmas.

You think that's an excuse? Back in my day players were winning 3 Ballon D'ors a year before their 16th birthday. Kids these days...

It's funny how some players start picking up injuries every few months, little niggles, and others just get away without any. Interesting to read young players get injured more, I would have assumed it was the other way around. I guess more experienced players know their body more and can work within those limitations, whereas the young ones are always pushing to and past their limits, perhaps in part due to the arrogance of youth. I remember in my teens and early 20s, the concept of being injured just was never in my mind. Now it's very much at the forefront! Back to Estevao, great finish yesterday but man he made a mess earlier missing an open net. He did all the hard stuff. I don't think it was the easiest finish, but I would expect him to be able to keep that shot down.

Cucurella is far better than Hato at present and it missing him for those big games will be a serious loss. He has locked down the left hand side and I think a lot of what he does defensively now goes unappreciated, because it's expected. If Cucurella had been on instead of Hato in the West Ham game from the start, I doubt we would have been 2-0 down. By no means do I think Hato is a dud, but I find it surprising that people are considering we sell Cucu now. When our left hand side is already weak, why would you take out the strongest player.

Seriously? It's pretty obvious to me that he passed it to Estevao, it didn't touch the keeper, and it was clearly intentional. The above angle is pretty inconclusive but check the BBC website for full replays. You can see him swipe his right along the ball in the direction of Estevao. His last touch doesn't go towards the goal... It was a good assist which came from him beating a man, taking the keeper out of play and putting it on a plate for Estevao. Just a bit weird to focus on this, rather than his brain fart earlier where he didn't play to the whistle and put the ball in an open net like he's paid to.

I thought it was a good game to get his confidence back. He sometimes cuts a frustrated figure with a lot of arm waving if things don't go his way, but he's getting his head down and working hard. I think we really need all our players to find some form and belief now. Great for Neto and Delap, but we need Garnacho too as Palmer won't be able to play every PL and CL game.

Cracking strike for the first goal. The second was lucky but still he put in a good delivery - nearly happened from another corner too. I really liked some of his interplay. He was a lot more central and there was a great 1-2 with delap for the third. Deserved hat trick. Hopefully he and Delap can build on today's performance and link up and bring it to the premier league. All well and good doing it against Hull, let's take it up a notch.

Agreed - It was pretty obviously a pen. Has there been anything further on the handball? His arm was not by his side, knocked the ball forward if he hadn't done that, Leeds wouldn't have managed to get the ball in our box. It's nuts that it wasn't called back. If that happens in the box it's either a penalty (if a Defender does it) or a free kick if the attacker does.

Surely got to start against Hull, try and get some sort of confidence back. How long is Gittens out?

And that's saying something

I dunno, Simons looks pretty average still. Kinda feel that was a bullet dodged. I may well be wrong, but I'm sure if he had been performing like he has for Spurs over here, he'd be below Garnacho and Gittens on the pecking order.

I was sat in Matthew Harding and really I remember it in the second half, where Chalobah was facing me and sticking his leg out in from of the ST. It could have been Fofana, I was kinda far away but I am pretty sure it was Chalobah... It only stood out to me as I think he did it twice in about 5-10 minutes and I thought it was pretty handily done.