He unintentionally made himself look tiny then. The exact opposite of what he should do.

Watch it again and also how ridiculously off his line he was, the second before the ball was hit.

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Edited by XKudu (28 Dec 2023 10.07am)

The Ref: was from Preston so had no particular grudge against Palace. But Chris Kavanaugh on VAR is from Manchester and presided over the Palace v Chelsea match last season when he failed to send off the full back who, as last man, hand balled twice to stop Ayew’s clear run on goal. He obviously doesn’t like us!

He went down low before the ball was kicked.I recall a few years ago Martyn Margetson, then England goalkeeper coach asserting that Henderson's body position was too low.

Redeem themselves? Their reserves just won them 3 points!

I haven't read every post but that game was the first time Roy just looked like a tired, cold, old man on the side lines. He mainly seemed to sit there shivering, I was waiting for someone to give him a blanket. I've nothing against old people working. But let's put it this way: I don't fancy working well into my 70s. I think, for everyone's sake, Roy needs to be thanked and replaced. Not booted out in a bad manner but you never know with us.

Red and Blue Army!

Nor have I. I've waited till the morning after the night before to post my bit of bile.

It was clear from an early stage that Eze wasn't up to speed and was an accident waiting to happen. He kept trying to do too much when on the ball and consequently lost it more often than not. At 70 minutes I was desperately wanting him replaced by Franca but yet again Hodgson left his substitutions too late.

It was so frustrating because we started the game on the front foot, but unfortunately, because we're not used to playing on the front foot we made poor choices and instead of being 1-0 up soon found ourselves 1-0 down.

Anything other than a win on Saturday will be unacceptable. Brentford are the team immediately above us, are missing their two best strikers and have just been walloped by Wolves at home for a fourth successive defeat.

I'm, like others, fed up with Hodgson's talk about good performances and unfortunate results. Apart from the Liverpool game where the ref seemed to view their fouls leniently and ours with a draconian mindset, we've got what we've deserved in the last half dozen games or so.

Time for Roy to go IMO.

Edited by doombear (28 Dec 2023 11.50am)