[Lord Didsbury]

As for the match..... I didn’t enjoy it that much. I felt nervous throughout as soon as they had a player sent off. It suddenly became ours to chuck away.

Thought we were very poor in the first half and then much better second. Yet again, though, we do seem to always manage to be tighter as a team than the opposition. Always just good enough. Coleman must take massive credit for this. A master strategist.

A few notable mentions:
Scott Brown - again, making a big difference with his energy.
Callum Johnson - I really like him. Each game he seems to improve. He’s starting to get past defenders more easily.
Big Ben - looked shaky and out of position first half, much better second. Can’t have been an easy game for him.
Jimmy Dunne - one day he’s going to start scoring loads of goals from corners. At the moment he’s frustratingly unable to apply the killer touch. Thank god Seamus took the one in the 60th min.

Finally, they should have been down to 9 men. The blatant arm in Jackson’s face when he was racing clean through was obvious to all but ref and linesman.