Alex dived in to block the Wigan player from crossing or shooting. He was a few feet away from the Wigan player. Alex was successful in blocking the cross/shot. The ball ricocheted up from Alex's leg and hit his arm.

You're always at risk of a penalty if there's contact with the hand/arm in the area. But that should have never been given and was rightly waved away.

Can people stop having a go at cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy please? I doubt very much whether he's taken up football refereeing just yet and even if he had I doubt he'd have been fast-tracked into the PL just yet.

Well, that was unexpected. Great to see the Villa fans heading for the exits after the fourth went in, s.

No.

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

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Irritating aren't they.

It's one of the worst songs in football, hate it. They only sang it the once today though, they were very quiet for some reason.

The BBC stats have Chelsea scoring 6 goals from 5 attempts on target.

They've paid their money, undertaken a lengthy round trip to get to watch a match that they could have watched on the telly in a pub. If they want to go home early in those circumstances then fair enough. Better than staying and jeering the team.

Nice to see St James's somewhat full

Was nice to hear Robbie Savage back tracking on MOTD2, he's a f*cking idiot that fella.

You mean like Toon fans leaving at halftime in 2008? Yea, suppose it is.

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Ooh that Alex Ferguson never gives anyone any credit does he??
from the BBC website

"In fairness to Fulham they were the better team in the second half. I don't think we deserved to be in front at 2-1," reflected Ferguson. "They caused us a lot of problems, particularly Bobby Zamora who was very good for them. We can't complain in terms of the run of the game."

Isn't he still sulking with the BBC? They must have got that quote second hand.

They'll have taped his post match interview from Sky

Dont managers have to give interviews from this season or the club gets fined? Im sure I read that somewhere a while back but whether or not its come into force yet I dont know!?! EDIT: found something "New rules have come into force this weekend supposedly compelling Premier League managers to provide post-match interviews to the media. If they refuse, their club will be fined. If they refuse again, the fine will increase with every non-appearance." www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... k-BBC.html

Dont managers have to give interviews from this season or the club gets fined? Im sure I read that somewhere a while back but whether or not its come into force yet I dont know!?! EDIT: found something "New rules have come into force this weekend supposedly compelling Premier League managers to provide post-match interviews to the media. If they refuse, their club will be fined. If they refuse again, the fine will increase with every non-appearance." www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... k-BBC.html

I don't have a problem with people leaving early, although it's something I wouldn't do myself.

It was the third game in a row that they've been to SJP and sold nowhere near their allocation. After the way they 'celebrated' sending us down, it was nice to exact some revenge yesterday and see their fans squirm.

I couldn't stop laughing at his prediction that we'd go down a couple of weeks ago, based on the sole fact that his Derby team beat us 3-0 last season.

We played you twice at Old Trafford in 2008. The first game was 0-0 at half time. The second game was 1-1 at half time.

If you're going to bull, at least do some research first so that you don't make yourself look stupid.

Quote ="LFCRhino"Dont managers have to give interviews from this season or the club gets fined? Im sure I read that somewhere a while back but whether or not its come into force yet I dont know!?! EDIT: found something "New rules have come into force this weekend supposedly compelling Premier League managers to provide post-match interviews to the media. If they refuse, their club will be fined. If they refuse again, the fine will increase with every non-appearance." www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... k-BBC.html'" One of the most ludicrous of all the new rules brought in to play recently. Unless they are going to relax bans/fines on managers speaking out and/or make referees do the same then I think it will be totally unworkable. What's to stop Ferguson (for example) just replying with "No Comment" to every question???

Quote ="LFCRhino"Dont managers have to give interviews from this season or the club gets fined? Im sure I read that somewhere a while back but whether or not its come into force yet I dont know!?! EDIT: found something "New rules have come into force this weekend supposedly compelling Premier League managers to provide post-match interviews to the media. If they refuse, their club will be fined. If they refuse again, the fine will increase with every non-appearance." www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... k-BBC.html'" One of the most ludicrous of all the new rules brought in to play recently. Unless they are going to relax bans/fines on managers speaking out and/or make referees do the same then I think it will be totally unworkable. What's to stop Ferguson (for example) just replying with "No Comment" to every question???

Think id sooner leave early than be pictured at the end,sat in a empty stand crying.....everytime i see that its always some sad geordie 2@.

Because the rule you state is that managers have to provide post-match interviews to the media. Would you consider Fergie saying "No comment" to every question to be providing an interview? I wouldn't, I don't think many people would, so Fergie doing that would be treated as a refusal to give an interview.

Personally I couldn't really give a to55 about interviews with footballers and managers. They're a complete waste of TV air-time IMO. But I'm in a minority in that and TV companies give a lot of money to televise football which massively benefits every top level player and manager. TV companies feel that the best coverage includes interviews with the important players and managers and they are right to insist that they give them.

Fergie's acting like a child with the BBC. He's got away with it for far too long.

No he's not, he's sticking to his guns and rightly so