Howay

This ref has been so inconsistent throughout imo.

Agreed, looked competent at the back and put some good balls in when he's got forward. Hope he gets a run of games.

Watch Ritchie on the replay already celebrating before Lascelles even makes contact, quality to see a bloke that can actually aim a ball at a player rather than just blindly hit it in.

Fucking get in!!!! Well deserved

Perez is so frustrating.

Aye gutted to see Sanches come off. Not sure about our sub mind, I'd much rather see Shelvey on or Hayden stay on than bringing Diame on.

Loving Merino completely mugging Sanches off 3 times in a row

Good recovery by Lascelles that after him and Manquillo lost Abraham.

That Abraham is fucking all over the defender anytime the ball comes to him. Sanches is also diving all over the shop 2nd half.

I like watching Merino tbf. He's been head and shoulders above Sanches in this match. His positioning and passing is very good plus he doesn't shirk from a challenge. I hope we do manage to make his move permanent as I think he's a steal for the quoted £5m-£6m when you consider players like Tom Carroll and Fabian Delph are in the £12m+ range now.

Aye, so far he's looked pretty dirty imo and has gotten away with at least one handball. I actually think he meant to kick Joselu there, he surely knew there was no way the ball was going to go there since a persons entire body was in the way. He's also given the ball away nearly every time he has touched it.

Decent half from our lot. Swansea were always going to have the possession stat but I thought we had the better chances, looked more threatening, and went forward with more purpose. I've been impressed again by Joselu, and Murphy isn't panicked in possession which is nice to see. Gamez looks competent as well which makes me wonder why he isn't used more.

Sanches should have been booked there imo, can't just kick a bloke in the dick ffs.

Ayew there man went down like he'd been shot then as soon as the ball come back in the box he was sprinting about.

So close there. Cracking save from the lad.

Fer should have been booked for that, very similar to Hayden stopping Sanches' counter.

Forgot how fucking dull Swansea are.

Aye harsh yellow and the commentators wankfest over this Sanches lad is already tedious.

Aye true enough. It's still fucking annoying to see these massive inconsistencies, especially the retroactive ban bollocks as it shows how much it really was due to motd etc making a fuss over Mitro rather than it being standard FA protocol.

Interesting that all the pundits (apart from Gary Neville iirc) are all 100% convinced the Mane incident was a red, yet no one was arsed when that Huddersfield tramp put in a similar challenge on Mbemba a few weeks ago which didn't even result in a free kick. The FA committee that retrospectively banned Mitro also conveniently didn't bother looking into that one.

They're certainly proving every point they made about us during last season that we were only winning because the league is so poor.... Didn't realize they had signed that utter fucking cunt Mcmanaman, he suits them down to the ground the fucking shite charver.

ffs

Challenge Ashley to a charity boxing match, then punch him all owa.

I'm not defending Mitrovic in any way, I was simply talking about how fucking stupid the FA's rules are. I also disagree that if Lejuene hadn't been injured I wouldn't have thought a yellow was insufficient, I agree with what Fish said. It was a sending off offence tbh, Kane went in recklessly, with intent to hurt the player as he had no chance of winning the ball since he was coming through the back of the player.

This is the sort of shit from the FA that's ridiculous, the refs apparently didn't see it therefore didn't punish it on the field so the FA can punish Mitro after the fact meanwhile Kane hoyed in a potential leg breaker with zero chance of winning the ball simply because he was being a petulant, frustrated chode and since he was booked can't get into any bother. Lanzini suffered no injury meanwhile we've been without our new CB since the tackle.