It really was a woeful performance. The level of inconsistency was mind boggling. Edouard booked for first foul when barely touching the player then when someone goes clearly through the back of Ayew it's nothing.

There was an attempted one-two that Olise played on the edge of the box and he was just taken out. Nothing.

Huge shirt pull. No yellow.

Jorginho and Kovacevic allowed to get away with constantly fouling.

In the lead up to their goal their was a contentious throw in and the ref and lino just looked at each other for a few seconds then guessed.

Plus many, many others... and I've not even seen the Silva handball incident again.

Utterly infuriating... no wonder PV was p*ssed off.

Really thought a draw would have been a fair result.

Hopefully we can pick up some points in the upcoming weeks now the fixtures are a little more favourable.

Anyone else see Reece James goading Zaha on social media?

What is it about Chelsea that breeds classless self-obsessed knob heads?

Have to say I watched James both games for England and thought he looked bang average.

Edited by Wilesy01 (02 Oct 2022 9.54am)

That was a tough one to take.

A brave team selection by PV which was good to see. Far better than the safety first team he played in the semi final against Chelsea.

However - and possibly as a result of that and the absence of Andersen, we made far too many unforced errors. As others have said, some of the passes back to VG made his life difficult.

The referee had a shocker. Booking Edouard thanks to the theatrics from Forfana, would have been acceptable had he then booked Chelsea players for similar offences - which of course he didn't. As for the Thiago incident, in my view that was cheating, plain and simple. It wasn't one of those handballs where the ball is blasted at a defender that can't get his arm out of the way, it was a deliberate act of preventing Ayew from going in on goal. It deserved a red card - or 2 yellows as Steve Parish argued.

You could have written the script for Gallaghers winner. A great strike, no blame attached for anyone on our side in my view.

We move onto a phase of games in which we should be picking up points. Let's hope we do just that.

Old, Ungifted and White

I stopped watching for maybe a season or two before - early nineties - when United could do whatever they liked, and matches lasted as long as they needed to for them. It was ridiculous. Now every rich club is United lite. The biggest blots on our game are separate Premier League Officials, not under the FA, and transfer fees, agents and contracts/ wages. PGMOL needs to be abolished - every year officiating gets worse - even when that seems impossible. Government should step in for transfers/wages as it's clear the corrupt game itself will do nothing.
It's like WWE wrestling sometimes it's that comical. Think of the Klopp fist pumps to the crowd when they beat us with crap officiating, that just about encapsulates everything wrong with the game currently. It's also not beautiful, it's dog ugly to be fair.
Giving young lads 100k plus a week is farcical and needs to be debated properly, not just complained about in private. Really, they should take a percentage of the wages, with the rest to come in retirement - it's not exactly f***ing rocket science to work that out.

Red and Blue Army!

Dont blame you there Gary, I can only put it down to blatent corruption or Bias against Palace in favor of the so called bigger clubs. I cant even put it down to bad officails as only a blind man would have missed that it was a sending off . What do we have to do to get a fair game in this league ?? week in and week out every game we seem to have big decisions going against us . To me it looks like there is an agenda to get Palace relegated and it must be very dishearting for the player that work their bollix off .

I am not a great fan of Ayew but have to say he did play very well on Saturday