01 Mar 2026 09:45:02
This always reminds me of how games usually turn out when teams around the top of the table play against play against ones near the bottom in the Premiership.

It's the defining moments in a game that the team with the quality players like Man City will always make their moment count.
However we did play very well against them but in our defining moments the ball does not go in the net because we lack, and obviously so as a newly promoted team, that extra quality the will bury at least one of those chances we had, in the net.

It is also not a surprise and this might sound like sour grapes, but referee decisions will always go against the team struggling at the bottom than those reaching for glory at the top. It's always been like that and I accept it as part of the game.

Long before this game was played out I have had no doubt in my head that under Farke and these players we have, we will survive this season and survive is at best, was all we could do in this first season up in the Prem.

I'm the kind of fan the doesn't want to see his team punch above it's weight like Forest did last season and Sunderland have in this season. A slow and progressive building of our team in the Premiership is what I prefer without the unrealistic great expectations that are forced onto some teams in these sometimes over fortunate and over elevated positions that some recently promoted teams might find themselves in.

Well done to all the lads playing yesterday, they gave their max as they have all season and I truly believe they will be rewarded for their hard working efforts. Same goes for the coaching staff and especially Daniel Farke who has surprised many with his adaptability in the most competitive league in the world.
Never doubt his commitment to succeed with our club, picking up that red card for remonstrating with a ref who is rubbish at his job shows his passion and his emotion that some seem to think he does not posses.

1.) 01 Mar 2026
01 Mar 2026 12:13:04
Excellent post, Opti.