And the So, On a scale of stupid to village idiot just where is Chris morning?

Well the thing is Chris's morning?

Well, the thing is, it's a complicated question.

I mean, in a way, it's not.

He made some very, very poor decisions, and you could see him instantly regretting them and Louis Van Galle said that he

was humble in the dressing room afterwards.

So that's good at least he was humble in the dressing room afterwards.

But man getting that booking for slowing the counterattack down, you could argue, if that was a striker, that would have been quite a sensible thing to do. But given that smallings then got to play the whole game

against Sergio Aguero and not bright at all is it and then that lunging

challenge and the the instant heartbroken look on his face as he realized how stupid he'd been.

He was done, he was foolish, it was ludicrous, he was naive, he was senseless, it was definitely simple. You could call him thick, but that would be a bit hard. It's definitely brainless. Half-witted, I think, is another way you could think about it.

You could go on, and on. a player who's not progressed at United and a lot of that is to do with his injury record which is not good along with Jones and Evans and Raphael and the others and

now Rojo unfortunately injured but a lot of it's also his game just hasn't

developed has it and that was one of the more dumb things.

To be honest I hadn't really thought of Smalling as a rash player before but that was quite

ridiculous first to get the booking for trying to slow down the play from the back and then just a dive in

absolutely flew into the player what else did you expect and you know you had to run to the

costume then and especially given that Van Harle

had spoken to the team so much about making sure that they kept 11 men on the

pitch. Yeah that's the old football manager when you asked about the spirit of the game

ahead of a derby nowadays spirit of the game ahead of a

Derby nowadays one of the options is always our best chance of winning is

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