Davey Baby

Simply undroppable. A class act. Boy what a player.

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Slojo, don't you know the rules? That is a banning offence.

Kepa poor with his distribution a couple of times. The last time, with Zouma, Dean blew for a foul, and we got away with it. Dean will be kicking himself for that. Pulisic looks confident. Not an awful lot to shout about. We're sleepwalking. We need to go for the jugular and play with a lot more urgency.

The star of the show is undoubtedly Mike Dean. 3 bookings for us despite only having committed 4 fouls, whereas they foul us every time we get around the box, quite cynically. Sure, we've had a load of free-kicks but only 1 booking for them. Work that one out. Furthermore, when James queried a call with the linesman, Dean had to run the full length of the pitch to give James a lecture. Superb refereeing. What a man. What a pro. What a total c**t.

May I ask where you get your drugs? Asking for a friend, obvs.

Are you by any chance on drugs?

If these stats are correct, they're pretty damning. Even worse, they don't factor in the fact he can't claim a cross to save his life, thereby putting our defence under unnecessary pressure. He needs to up his game because I have no doubt Frank and Petr will strengthen if they think they can. Remember, Kepa arrived before Frank and Petr's appointments, so they won't have any qualms about getting in their own man. Kepa needs to impress them if he wants to stay, and right now, I doubt very much he's doing that. He needs to up his game. On his day, he's quality, as we saw in Ajax, but this season he has been pretty average for the most part. Even worse than average judging by those stats.

For those wishing to talk about Sarri, there is the Antonio Conte thread.

Brendan Rodgers left Celtic mid-season to take the Leicester job, ruining his status there. They now loathe him. I doubt he'll leave Leicester mid-season but if Utd, Spurs or Arsenal are thinking about a new manager they should wait till the summer, because I reckon they can get him. He's a top manager.

I said after the Utd game in the LC that Frank's decision to let Marcos out for the 2nd half cost us the game. Frank obviously learned his lesson and we reaped the reward. Alonso plays that second half and we lose, it's as simple as that. I've no idea why he started but there's obviously a problem with Emerson. Regardless of whether Emerson's fit on Saturday, no way can I see Marcos starting.

Please show me where I said it wasn't a handball. I've just questioned the rules, not the referee, and I've questioned the quality of your glasses.

I don't even really want to give Alonso too much grief. He's won titles with us. He's been a good signing. He makes the most of what he's got. He's scored some big goals. He put two past Tottenham at Wembley. He just hasn't got the attributes to be a top class full-back, like Reece James has. It's not his fault.

You might be right but Conte's first thought upon winning the title was targeting Alex Sandro.

It's almost getting to the point where if your defender gets booked, you'll have to sub him straight away, because you can't risk it.

It was handball, according to the new rules. I'm just saying it wasn't deliberate, as you state. Not that it makes a difference either way.

He got hooked at half time. Well done Frank.

I need you to change your glasses.

I know it went in our favour but it drives me mad. We got a pen, to get a second booking on top is way too harsh. It's beyond a farce. He literally could do nothing about it.

No offence mate but you need to go to Specsavers.

Exactly. It was a farcical decision. We got off the hook big time tonight. Even against 9 men we looked capable of losing it. The youngsters, possibly understandably, had no idea how to take advantage of the tow man advantage and the more experienced players didn't seem able to influence them in the way you might expect. I think that's where Lampard showed his inexperience. Having said that, we had more than enough chances to win it, although they had one or two of their own.

You might be right, I don't know the rules, but I maintain the game's gone mad. That's never a booking in a million years.

Is it an automatic booking? It's ridiculous in my opinion.

Uefa have confirmed it was for handball. Ridiculous booking in my opinion. Criminal in fact. There's nothing he could do. He was literally trying to pull his hand away, but there was no time. If the rules say it was a booking, why wasn't Abraham booked as well, when our goal was disallowed?

People saying we can't win this tournament and they'd rather we drop into the Europa League. What are you on? We most definitely can win this tournament. We can't win the league but we can win the CL. We've played Liverpool twice this season and both times we were the better team. We just need a little bit of luck. If it's your year it's your year. Ruben Loftus-Cheek will score the winner in the final. I've got money on it.