A good keeper gives the whole team confidence and you could see the nerves tonight. Good centre halves and decent defensive midfielders are why Hennessey keeps cleans sheets.

When they hit the post tonight he had started his dive after the ball had rebounded out, his reactions are too slow and he just isn't good enough for this level.

I know he does his best, and you can see he is trying every match, but sadly neither him or Speroni are good enough, and until we get this sorted we will never show our full potential as a team.

I know we kept a clean sheet against Citeh, but imagine how many more we would keep with a quality keeper. We need to find another Nigel Martyn. There must be one out there!

Hennessy commanded his area and was alert throughout, making some decent saves.

Every time he concedes a goal, he is made a scapegoat for the whole defence.

I wouldn’t say there are more than half-a-dozen better keepers in the premier League than him and Speroni.

Can any of their critics identify affordable replacements?

Here we go again.

We gave them masses of pressure and put Delaney in front of him. Can't anyone see that if you give the other lot that much pressure you're asking for trouble no matter who is in goal? If we concede 10 shots on target and he misses 1 in 12, you might be OK. If we concede 20, well, do the math.

The problem was the central defenders and the lesson is that if we do anything in this window we need to provide cover for Tomkins. As the moment if anything happens to Kelly or Tomkins with Sakho and Dann out of it then we're relying on Delaney and he can't do it any more at this level. You'll have seen also that Riedewald was less effective when he was dropped deeper so he isn't going to be a centre-back. Same goes if you move Fosu-Mensah or van Aanholt into the middle.

The other problem is that they kept us deep in our own half for much of the game. We didn't get our last two league results by doing that, did we?

Tomkins and Kelly in central defence, and a decent attack of our own, and we stop City scoring for the first time in God knows how long. With Hennessey in goal. Tonight, same keeper, no Wilf and no Tomkins, lose to the weed.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but whilst a keeper upgrade would be most welcome (and seems to be in the offing), Hennessey is *not* the root cause of all our problems and neither is Speroni.

Easy to blame the keeper, but both goals against us tonight was firstly down to Cabaye not being close enough to block the attack just outside the area and the other was a mistake by Reidlewald giving away the free kick after losing control of the ball he had just won? We probably do need a new keeper but tonight wasn’t down to Hennessey