Alexis Sanchez (official).

[KSE Comedy Club]

It was clear to me after the first 10 mins that we weren't going to achieve a lot in the game. We started off by passing backwards, then sideways, then sideways, then back...... over and over.
As soon as Palace got the ball they sprinted towards goal and had a dig.

There has been a few comments from people I know today and from the commentary last night about how to break teams down that sit deep, 11 men behind the ball, etc, but the fact is that in most cases, those teams can be broken down with a fast counter attack.

The reason they are able to get 11 men back behind the ball is that we spend so fucking long passing the ball around our own half that we go nowhere and gain no ground against our opposition.... its pointless football. I said last night that we offered no attacking threat what so ever - and the stats back that up 100%.

There were at least 3 instances where we had a little break and could've made a run at palace's goal, but on all three occasions, we stopped and looked to pass off to the wing or across midfield.
There was no pride, no energy, no sense of urgency about anything the players did last night.

Only one team turned up wanting to play a game of football.
The others were at the training ground practicing their triangle passing.

And once again, Wenget only gets up to moan at the fourth official when we are losing.

So sick of it all