1948, seriously I don't know. I did love that penalty though, not the actual shot though it was fine and he sent the keeper the wrong way, it was his, meh I'm doing something to my foot, completely relaxed, not a care in the world thing, whistle went, took the penalty, no fuss, bang, sorted.
Entertaining game but a bit too much of West Ham syndrome as I like to call it, West Ham the last time they went down consistently did this thing where they'd be the better team in the first half and not score, or take a lead, then either way they'd completely stop playing, stop getting forward, passing backwards and end up losing. Villa did that against Liverpool the other day, and Fulham last night, utterly dominated QPR then almost everyone but Berbatov completely gave up playing football.
Sidwell's was never a red, neither leg locked out, both bent, low, no massive lunge, just a very unlucky challenge, certainly worth a yellow and I wasn't even sure if he was already on a yellow, never a straight red.
Emanuelson, wow, how god awful a player can you be having played for Ajax and Milan, he basically made the wrong decision every single time possible, miskicked it, weak as hell on the ball, showed zero pace and no effort to close people down or do anything....
Not sure what Jol was up to, he needed to sub Emanuelson LONG before he did and probably Karagounis aswell as he was useless, again. HE flops over a lot, gives the ball away a lot, in some games shoots a lot and gets the odd goal, haven't seen him have a good game yet, the odd good minute.
What has happened to Frei, he looked really really promising last season yet seems to have disappeared, Emanuelson on instead of Frei, a sub unused despite that FUlham team being utter turd from 35-40mins onwards and desperately in need of legs and a change, Richardson available as well who could have played on the wing and helped more defensively. Frimpong came on and was instantly one of Fulhams best players on the pitch, actually winning the ball, holding on to it when tackled, pushing it forwards given the chance and marking the space well/closing players down well.
I can't believe Jol sat there, watched Emanuelson screw absolutely everything up, his team almost throw away the win and made no real changes till forced to with the red card.
