Sunderland charged for penalty melee

"But Mason missed the fact that Wickham made contact with the ball and Leighton Baines scored from the spot to make sure the visitors went home with a lucky point"

I thought only we did revisionism at a high level!

Odd that the EPL can retrospectively charge the club for a reaction to a foul, but not for the foul itself.

RMÂ’s gotta figure out the best use of the trio behind Lukaku.... and currently Naismith is the best option. Sorry Ross, itÂ’s true.

And if Lukaku is having a Â’mare, as they say, then he needs to come off with EtoÂ’o coming on to change the dynamic.

Baines tweaked now too... itÂ’s gonna be an interesting team for West Ham!

The Wickham foul was nailed on pen and red card, that prick Mason had already long lost the game at that point and was already reacting to every single call the Poundland Geordies were making from the stands.

There's all manner of excuses being made for them, but they can't even get the basics right. Look at the Ref we had against Burnley. 2 Minutes injury time was added at the end of the first half. But he waited over the 2 minutes as Burnley were attacking, to give them a chance to score. As soon as Coleman gets the ball he blows the whistle!

Last night the Scotland v ROI game was played in a comparable atmosphere and style to a PL game. The Serbian Referee handled the game perfectly. At the end the fans probably didn't mention the Ref, and even a subbed player shook his hand as he left the pitch. He was probably thinking "I wish we had you every week".

The feed I was watching it on had a couple of commentators – can't remember names, but if I said they were stealing a living, would that narrow it down? Anyway, their immediate reaction was never a pen, ref had dropped a bollock, etc. Then the replay, and they grudgingly admitted he'd in fact got it spot on.

The Gomez challenge should've been a straight red, but I don't agree Wickham's was, otherwise any penalty where the attacker is looking at the goal will yield a red, and cries of double jeopardy etc.

Funny about the failing to control players charge. I must've missed it when Man Utd were getting those charges every other week...