Mick

Anyway, bollocks to Man U, he's ours and I'm over the moon about that.

Tiote would be better value for money than Bellion.

Because Tiote is about a million times better than him and Ferguson bought him.

They paid £2 million for him.

David Bellion.

Jonas was an easy pass as he was in front of Ben Arfa when he was running with the ball.

We'd just had a corner and the ball had been cleared and picked up by Ryan Taylor who played it to Simpson who then played the ball to Tiote. Tiote played the ball forward to Ben Arfa who played the ball back to Tiote, Ben Arfa then headed away from goal and into space. The ball was played forward of Tiote and forward of Ben Arfa who was facing away from the Wigan goal. Ben Arfa was running away from goal because Tiote passed the ball to him while he was running into space in that direction and he let it run. He was running across the pitch and away from goal while being tracked by Watson. Ben Arfa looked to his right and saw Cabaye was making a cross field run between two Wigan players and Coloccini and possibly Taylor who were on the edge of the Wigan area. Ben Arfa turned away slightly more towards our end for a couple of seconds as if to feign a run and he played the ball to where Cabaye would have been if he carried on his run. Cabaye was probably two to three yards from the 18 yard box and roughly in line with the D. Cabaye was running towards the centre of the pitch when Ben Arfa looked up. No way could any player have found Cabaye with the ball at that point as the Ref and a Wigan player were both between the two. Cabaye did stop running while Ben Arfa was facing the other way to him and couldn't have known that Cabaye had stopped his run unless he's got eyes in the back of his head.

Rubbish, Ben Arfa was running away from the Wigan goal and he looked up and saw Cabaye making a run, he waited a couple of seconds and played the ball not knowing that Cabaye had stopped his run.

Why did it not come off?

He didn't back heel to nobody, he back heeled to Cabaye and it almost came off.

He supposedly bottled 50/50 tackles which I still haven't seen after watching the match twice tonight. The only thing I felt he could have improved on was a few of his first touches being a little heavy and he'll soon get over that.

Well said.

Thank God you said in front.

In the past he will have known he could get in the team and keep his position, now he'll know that Krul will always be ahead of him when fit.

I don't mind him and he's actually canny when you get to know him. He's full of his own self importance and whores himself around to get his face on the tele but that's his choice.

Agreed, he's no longer got time on his side and he's clearly never going to be No1 here again so he has no reason to stay here and could probably return if Krul picked up an injury.

I'll not base what I think of him on the Man U, Man City and Chelsea games, probably the two or three after that.

I've kept out of here because I can't work out if he's better than I expected or just really lucky. I was about to come in here during the Wolves game and praise him and then he almost lost us the points with his substitutions. Bringing Shola on against Spurs was a poor decision at the time but it worked so I'll wait before I decide what I think of him.

He's done nothing to deserve it.

You're not being harsh, you're being stupid. The dangerous moves from Wigan were mainly down our left side, not the right where Simpson plays. I've watched the full game again and Simpson was one of our better players and hardly put a foot wrong and put himself into tackles where he was hurt.

If he was jeered off, the jeers came after the performance.

One thing we don't share is half of our support walking out at or before half time in a derby, passionate my arse.