All the yellow cards where perfectly alright, and the red two. Elbow in the face is marching orders as simple as that. Beattie was clearly offside in the replay, no discussions there at all. The goals given away where not the best from your perspective, but perhaps this is the level of the players involved when the pressure is on, you can't turn a Skoda into a Ferrari.
You lot played a good first half, and we did look jaded today, but to be fair player-by-player we have a far better squad, so it can't really be a huge surprise that you'll have to deliver more than this to have any chance of winning this fixture.
As for diving the only diving team I've seen this season in the PL is Chelski, I watched the whole game yesterday in a relaxed atmosphere and there was very little to no diving going on from either team (think Garcia fell easily on two occasions, but there was contact and no yellows were given, that's the only dives I saw all day).
So please stop calling us a diving team, when we're anything but, and start looking into where you need to address your own failings next season, if you want to someday approach the level you had in the late 80s. Given the state of world football today, its a Kilimanjaro to climb. We almost left it to late to "rejoin" the "Big 4/Big 3", for anyone else its a going to be monumental achievement.
