Secondly – and I should make it clear that I don't support United, or any Premier League team for that matter – a truly unjust result. Nothing much was made of the early offside decision that denied Rooney an easy chance, but that and the penalty were two game-changing decisions that the referee got wrong. He got most other decisions wrong too. I'm not sure about the free-kick that led to the goal – I was typing when it happened – but Martin Atkinson got everything else wrong, so I guess that's the way I'm leaning. United played really well, did 70% of the attacking, had the game's outstanding players in Fletcher, Carrick and Valencia and simply shouldn't have been beaten.
But there you go. Swings and roundabouts and all that, eh?