I do not care if we were down to 10 men, it was a gutless performance from Albion.
We started well but the writing was on the wall before Robinson went off. How many times do we have to repeat it – our defence was a complete shambles! No one seems capable of man-to-man marking.
Robinson’s poor marking led to United’s first goal and Scott Carson gifted United three goals. Yet another Carson howler (they are now becoming too frequent) when he dropped a simple cross ball at the feet of Tevez and two other goals were scored through his legs!!!
I am simply amazed that Tony Mowbray has not seen the need to bring in more quality defenders in this transfer window. This team needs decent DEFENDERS and we need them NOW – before we kiss goodbye to the Premiership.

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Bring on the Championship, I’m fed up with this Premier League nonesense. Same old story.

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Baggies 0 Rob Stiles 5.

What an absloute joke. How can any team get everything their own way???

If we would have been beet 5.0 fair and square I would hold my hands up…. but this is a joke.

Stiles lost his grip on the game, Utd players could see this and were falling over every time a tackle was placed.

Aussie Baggie, I simply do not agree with your comments – we had most of our first team out (unlike UTD), players playing out of position.

And to top it all of as stiles was coming of at the end of the game he was loving the lime light.

There was never 5 goals between the teams and i’m still proud to be a Baggie.

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After watching football for 60 years I have never been so insenced as I was last night watching a Referee so biased in his decisions that it prooves to me that the big clubs get all the decisions. Why when Gary Neville demonstrated against a failed penalty claim was he not booked yet the diabolical Mr Styles was showing cards to Albion players without serious justification.
Radio WM reporter sumed it up by saying this man shoul be demoted to a much lower grade of football as he is not fit to adorne to Premiership.
Yours truly
Senior Baggie

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firstly, man united are a brilliant team, full of class, but if you can only win the premiership in the way that they won this gamelast night then i really think im leaving the game. I have been going up the hawthornes for 40 + years and i have never, ever seen such a blatantly biased referee in all those years. If rob styles is a premiership ref then im the prime minister. It was never a red card, there was a blatant push on fortune in the box at 0-0, nothing given, van der saartips the ball out for a corner-goalkick. offsides so obvious, not given, throw ins given the other way, the list is endless. I feel so gutted today that im not sure if i ever want to watch another game, i just cant get the bitter taste of cheating out of my mouth, if i did my job as bad as rob styles id have a pile of p45′s bigger than payslips, and yet for all that you just know he’ll continue reffing. And to top it allive had to sit and watch sir alex and co saying how they are finding a ruthless streak and fantastic clean sheets. Mmmmmmm very very easy with 12 men sir alex. nuf sed

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Never ever have I seen such a one sided game. I agree MU have some great players, and so they should, they cost enough. But the referee was a disgrace and reminded me of the comments of Rafa a couple of weeks ago, they are frightened of MU and their manager. To cap it all every MU player shook hands with Styles at the end, was that to thank him for yet another contribution to their title race.
All we wanted was a level playing field.Well done our lads I’m proud of the way to held your heads up.

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I totally agree that it was a truly inept performance from the ref last night and we did our very best considering the team we put out – I’m very hopeful for the remainder of the season.
BUT – I think the sending off decision was correct. Take a look again at the TV coverage and you will see Robinson leave the floor with both feet as he goes in to the challenge. You can’t do that in the modern game (we’ve seen opposition players sent off for it at the Hawthorns this season). I don’t think Albion will appeal because of this & I don’t think an appeal would be successful anyway for the same reason.

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Can’t really add anything, it’s all been said here and with the exception of the disgraceful posts from Aussie and Jesse I agree with all that’s been said. The post that really said it all for me was Hilltop. Last night after witnessing the village idiot’s display I was angry. Having slept on it I feel very sad and like Hilltop I’m left thinking ‘what’s the point?’ In the days of Best, Law and Charlton we all new that they might well tonk us but if they did it would be fair and above board, those days of innocence are gone forever I fear. The likes of Clive Thomas could be a plonker but he was an unbiased plonker. I never thought the day would come but I’m seriously questioning whether it’s worth going to football matches.
PS. No Wulfies on here yet. If any of you are thinking about coming on here gloating think again, you have this level playing field to look forward to next year.

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i am so angry it is really unbelivable!!! rob styles is a joke, throw ins given to the wrong side, biased free kicks, corner kicks given as goal kicks, missed offsides, missed bookings for man u. The thing that really gets on my nerves is sky and tony mowbray, i watched the match again on sky sports 1, the commentators were so far up rob styles’s arse it was unbelieveable!!! he got every decision right apparently!! tony mowbray was interviewed and he basically does not care about the referees biased decisions, he basically admitted he will not do anything about it. Oh and sky sports news have mentioned nothing about rob styles.

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#17, AF16 – I’ve been posting on Bombers’ blog page.

Summary – I’m tired and don’t think a letter to Keith Hackett would help as it’d go completely unnoticed.

Rob Styles is an idiot and a liability.

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21.
Agree, It’s about time someone twigged that he’s a plank, the man’s a total sap, gives me the needle, I woodn’t give him a job, if the Prem think he’s a top ref they’re barking up the wrong tree.

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Hard to believe that in the modern game, a referee can give one team preferentail treatment, when he is supposed to be impartial and completely get away with it – no questions asked!

That was the WORST refereeing performace i have EVER witnessed – how can he be allowed to ref again?!!!!

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