We made two mistakes this week.
1. Henry jumped the gun giving Kenny the contract on Thursday. I didn't want to say anything about this earlier because I'd have been seen to be negative about Kenny getting a 3 year contract, which I'm not because he's the right guy for the job. But if we were going to give him the job before the end of the season, why wait until several days before the most important match in the run? Would have been better for Henry to attend the game, and make the announcement after. You could see the players had no hunger out there, and I honestly think that was in part because something they had been playing their hearts out for had come to fruition.
2. Kenny started Carroll. This was a grave error, as he tried to fix something that wasn't broken. Shelvey for Meireles would have been fine, given that Shelvey actually had a decent game anyway. We were flat, and had no creativity to go with our lack of urgency; doesn't matter who the referee is if you play like that. Over the last few weeks we've created tons of pressure from the off, and have been rewarded with goals each time. We were a goal down before Carroll headed over under no pressure with an open goal, and that was our best effort in the entire first half.
Howard Webb was shocking. He blew us every time Crouch took a tumble, but awarded only 2 fouls on Suarez despite how much he was getting kicked. The penalty was awful - Pienaar barged in so it was foul play on his part, and contact was outside the area anyway. But as I said, we didn't lose because of Webb, though he helped; we simply weren't good enough.
MotM: Flano.
You mean i may have to watch the paint dry every thursday night?
