Not only the fixture gods. Just seen we have Darren England again on Tuesday, how the f does that work?

We've got the two toughest away games behind us and we've come out of them with one more point than expected and with some credit.

With Man U, Brighton and Chelsea to follow the Newcastle game, we'll have played 5 of the so-called big 6 in our first 9 games plus 2 of the next best in Newcastle and our south coast rivals (both away). Let's hope we can avoid banana skins against the eminently winnable games that come after them.

Yeah, but they are still hipster bellends.

The Mitchell injury on top of being cheated out of a fair goal to put us 0-3 up was devastating.
Our left back was still hobbling about and should not have been trying to carry on when the City scorer cut in from Mitchell's side to score a deflected goal.
Unfortunately he was replaced by Richards, an inexperienced Premier League defender, who is obviously a right-sided centre-half asked to suddenly be a left-back away at the champions.
Our squad was really shown up and exposed at this point, in fact what was happening on the pitch was such a mess Richards was switched over to the right side as the goals went in.
A club our size can put out a decent first XI, but cannot compete with the squad depth and world-class subs a club like City can throw on as we struggle to make do and mend with limited resources.

Why was Ayew's goal dissallowed?

You've written what I've come to accept, which is that sadly Brighton are much better than we are at the moment, as a club and a team.