Dreadful as our naivety was...

I'm bizarrely unruffled by it. Probably because the game had such an "along came Norwich" vibe to it I had mourned the loss before we kicked off.

Lots of poor performances, but I'm not sure that Ruddy deserves all the stick he's getting though. I would have made the Wes for Tettey sub, too - I was worried about Tettey's knees having just played two international games in the last week.

And for all that, if the ref does the job he's paid to do and sends off Janmaat for denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity when he pulls Howson down it's still only 2-1 down with a penalty to take and 10 men for the barcodes. (And Wijnaldum's third was offside against Sissoko, who in jumping, made a movement toward the ball, which is all he has to do under this season's interpretation.)

Posted By: NJ_Canary, Oct 19, 20:07:09