I didn't think Terry did handle the ball on Tuesday. Drogba did - 100% certain. But the lino got it spot on with Terry.

Not certain about today's "handball" either. I've looked at it a few times but the crappy picture from my Comcast box means I can't get a decent picture on the freezeframes without getting tonnes of motionblur. From my pics it simply doesn't look conclusive and with my innate bias I simply don't think it did hit his arm.

I think Tottenham getting the pen today was a direct consequence of Carlo Ancellotti conceeding the media war to other managers.

Bolton had a clear handball late in the game on Tuesday. That wasn't given, but has any mention been made of that? No, Ancellotti has just allowed all the talk to have been about how Bolton were robbed by referees favouring Chelsea. The same against United. They got a goal from a handball and the clearest pen was by Neville on Anelka, but after the game the only talk was about how Man United were robbed by refs. Similar against Villa. O'Neill whines about the Terry-Milner tackle and the agenda is that tackle and how poor little Milner could've been crippled for life after losing out on a 50/50 ball.

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On today's game. Jesus Christ we were poor. Deco and Joe Cole can just FRO for me. Drogba was dreadful again. We were really lucky not to get smacked today and have an inferior GD to United.

Although I didn't want Spurs to win (pointless hoping for 4th, I know), seeing Terry get sent off made up for it.

Alves sent off for Barca v Espanyol with the game at 0-0. Come on Espanyol!!!

We'll have to agree to disagree on that.

Should never have been sent off. Very poor ref tonight. Barça were average at best and if Espanyol had someone who could provide a killer pass they'd have won. 21 points between 2nd and 3rd, and people argue the case for it being the best league in the world.

Does de la Pena still play?

Crocked.

Scholes!!

Anyone see Maicon's goal, wow!

Yeah, it was a beauty. There should have been someone closing him down after he beat the first man, but it was a great piece of skill and a great strike.



I only saw the second yellow he got. That was a definite booking, so he only has himself to blame even if the first booking was for nothing.

I think moving forward a tad, what we will see is a fairly frantic summer this year for a lot of Premiership clubs, with the World Cup doing what it normally does and muddying the water a bit in regards to transfer activity as there are always over achievers and an influx of their 'stars'.

The way I see it this year, for the first time in what - maybe ever ? I think you'll have all the 'Big Four' on a serious recruitment drive. Ferguson knows they need to spend money, Wenger has woken up, Benitez has banged the drum for ages and by Chelsea not opening contract talks with Anelka, Cole, Ballack & Deco - I see that as Roman realising that Chelsea need to bring the average age of that side down and get fresh blood (I think the CL exit to Inter was the final nail and he made that decision that evening). Throw City into the mix as they'll do what they do, and we should be in for an interesting summer.

Should be a really interesting sub plot to the fiesta of football that we'll all be captivated by.