I haven't defended Rooney in recent times but I will be very interested in seeing if Luiz gets anything remotely close to the same attention given to his elbow/shouldering as Rooney got for his elbow at Wigan.

Gutted about that game. Felt the penalty was very soft, but the word I'll put on it is 'giveable'. Can agree that Vidic should have been sent off. But why wasn't Luiz? This is what annoys me. He got away with a proper Nevilling there.

We possibly do get a lot of decisions going in our favour. I'm sure it's true. But I'm also sure that other teams also get a lot of decisions in their favour - it's just that nobody makes a fuss because it's not a dick-player. Barton, Rooney, even Ronaldo - their reputations preceded them and people would get in an uproar. But Giggs, Gerrard, Luiz and (I don't know how, mind you) Terry are seen as saints that don't get the same scrutiny. I mean, even Scholes... what I find crazy about Scholes is that he gets away with it purely because he's Scholes. "Oh, he can't learn how to tackle, he never could do it right." Of course he could. And it doesn't make it okay. If you tackle badly, you get carded.

Should have been a draw, or at least decided without a penalty. And if it was to be a penalty, at least make it an obvious enough one. Great game until the moment that Luiz shouldered Rooney, for me. I was annoyed about the elbow to Hernandez but thought it would have been a case where the ref waits for another serious foul before he cards - as we know is a common scenario (see: Vidic in the same game, seconds before he got sent off he should have been sent off for bringing down Drogba). But then when he did that next serious foul... nothing. What!? Okay. So when Vidic did his second bookable offence I thought he'd be fine, because Luiz got away with it. Consistency is too much to ask within a game these days, let alone for all teams throughout the entire season.

It shouldn't have been a penalty, Luiz should have been sent off along with Vidic, and it should have either finished a draw or with a deserved goal.

A bit frightened about playing Liverpool next week with no Rio or Vidic. Even Evans is out! Brown and Smalling? Hrmmm...