Pathetic - No, that isn't at the performance but the referee. We certainly weren't at our best today but we definately weren't as bad as the scoreline suggests. The game was 50/50 in terms of how the teams played and apart from mistakes at the back (namely silvestre) none of the decisions went our way today. As Andy said, refs don't always do themselves favours and today steve bennett certainly didn't. He is always too quick to pull out a card even for the most minor of things that other refs would let go the first time but the red card he gave was a disgrace. If ronaldo had made contact then obviously he deserved to be sent off but he didn't even make contact and a yellow card would have been enough, especially after the tackle on ronaldo a few seconds earlier that went unpunished. Obviously its down to the players to play well enough to get the points but the sending off definately dented our chances of being able to get a draw. Going on his decisions I'm suprised James only saw yellow for kicking the ball into the stands
, but then again City got the decisions and got away with things that we didn't
