The media like to spin us a narrative that the FA Cup doesn’t matter anymore. Tell that to anyone on either side at Old Trafford today or Molineaux yesterday.
No, giving a yellow card for players taking their shirt off is a ridiculous rule. I will happily die on this hill. It only exists for the benefit of shirt sponsors, it’s typical of everything wrong with football these days.
That’s not a criticism of the ref, he had no choice. But sending a kid...
I have two issues with the Ali Mac deal, and neither are to do with Ali Mac himself.
1. We only got £35m for him, we could easily have got £50m IMHO plus add ons
2. We thought we could replace him with James Milner