Football

The crounch one is a sign of things to come, they've been nagging on about contact in the box for ages, and the guy just rugby talked Crouch. There was no attempt to play the ball.

Really? I watched it and Crouch did just wrestle the guy to the floor. We got very lucky in that game, due to the ref's incompetence. As has been said, the Bale challenge was the only penalty that realistically should have been given. If we hadn't been awarded that third one I think the game would have been very different, Twente looked on the up after VdV got sent off, I wasn't too sure how long Tom could hold out the midfield for (he probably shouldn't have been on the pitch after the elbowing thing, luck again through bad ref). Was nice to us return to the 4-4-2 as well. We did show a slight lack of depth in midfield due to them having the 5th man in the middle of the pitch, but having Pav and Crouch together made a difference as neither are capable of playing the lone striker role. In summary, we made some good plays, as did Twente, but the referee was a bit of an idiot. Scoreline should've been 2-1. Maybe even a draw.