Well, this one certainly lived up to it’s billing, didn’t it? The two pretenders, lying first and third respectively went head to head today and served up a treat. Possibly the game of the season so far. All in all a great advert for English football though not, I suspect, for English refereeing. Howard Webb did wonderfully well in terms of letting a fascinating match run it’s course, but it has to be said that his use of cards was woefully inconsistent and that he missed two incidents which might possibly have changed the course of the game. Continue reading →