Refs follow the laws of the game. Which is good in my book. Blame the rules, not the ref. I'm glad that there are red cards for dangerous play, and I think Stephens' challenge constituted dangerous play (whereas I didn't when he was sent off against Boro -- and nor did Mike Dean, originally). As...
Yes. Just heard (some of) CH's post-match reaction on R5. It might be that I'm wrong on this. Presumably the claim is that Bamba was offside at some point -- he wasn't for the finish, but he had at least one more touch during that passage of play.
Exactly. People need to take their blue-and-white-striped spectacles off. I'm surprised there isn't another thread on here kicking off about how Bamba's winner was offside. I've even heard someone say it was offside twice.