1. We should not have lost that lead. Sat back, invited them on, paid the inevitable price.

2. Wilf has confirmed what we feared - he will never realise his potential because of his mental failings. Tonight really has confirmed that. It's sad.

3. f*** that f***ing ref, and f*** Romeu.

Clearly you were watching a different game, because I saw their players foul him persistently in rota, so they didn't draw yellows from the referee for a chain of takedowns (yeah, apart from Romeu's 4 fouls in succession with not a single booking). And for a vast number of those fouls, no free kick was given, including a clear penalty.

No. The fouls were not "dealt with".

They had a clear game-plan today: kick the s*** out of us. Needle the players to provoke a response (look at the s***-eating grin from Ward-Prowse when he knew he'd needled Zaha after fouling him off the ball AND getting away with it again).

t***s.

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If we did not sit back in second half and played the same as first half we would have won by a country mile ! Bad tactics . And should have brought wickham or Benteke on to hold ball up .

Whatever we say about the referee, and he was truly awful, we cannot escape the fact that we threw away 2 points. Ward Prowse was in acres of space for an age to the build up for their goal . No-one closed him down.

Why Ayew was still on the pitch only Woy will know. But we also missed a hatful once again including that free header from Sakho which missed by a country mile. And someone needs to give Kouyate shooting practice. For a midfielder of his size to never get on the goal sheet is pretty poor.

Hodgson needs to know when to make substitutions. When are either Benteke or Wickham going to start?

Having had a few minutes to calm down and leaving Zaha and the ref aside for a moment, got to say that Roy's in game decisions have again cost us points there.

You feel like a stuck record writing the same thing about his substitutions every single week but why on earth was he the only person in the stadium who couldn't see that we needed to bring Wickham or Benteke on? Not only was Ayew totally ineffective but with a big physical centre forward on the pitch their defenders would have had something else to focus on than fouling Zaha.

Roy is a great manager in lots of ways, he has us organised brilliantly and sets us up to defend very well but his teams are utterly predictable and his stubborn refusal to bring on anybody other than Schlupp before the 75th minute is utterly infuriating. Wouldn't be surprised if we lose Meyer in the summer as there's no way he'll be enjoying this.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

I can almost forgive a player getting sent off for retaliation when he's had poor or no protection from the ref. But to get sent off for mock applause to the ref is ridiculous and he should be fined.