Utter **** refereeing from Clattenburg. God, I was so irritated after the game, had he been anywhere near reaching distance, he'd only be half alive wondering what the heck happened by now. If he gets a game next weekend after this, I'll be utterly disappointed.
But that does not take away from our defensive frailties. Blackett is still a youngster, and is prone to making mistakes. He should have been slowly bedded in, not just thrown off the deep end. For the most part, Blackett has worked out, but he still makes mistakes frequently, and I'm not talking about just this match. And out of our remaining 4 CB, Evans and Jones are injury prone, Smalling is okayish at best, and Rojo clearly is a CB, not LB. I don't think I saw him take on his man even once :\
With Blackett out of the next game (screw you, Clattenburg), for heavens sake, put Rojo at CB and Shaw at LB. Also, I've said this a couple of weeks ago too, I believe, but if Jones is out injured, our defence will be pretty screwed.. We need to keep him fit, no matter what;;
Also,we need a leader at the back to organize defence (probably where we missed Evans today). Rooney cannot do that, and we needed that at 3-2, although even if we had Puyol, Clattenburg would still have won them the game. But we need an authoritative figure at the back. Please go nuts all for Hummels next season.
