I'm not sure it matters where it ranks in all-time greatest VAR mistakes, but it's such an obvious foul and penalty that it's genuinely mystifying how it couldn't be given. I really don't know what explanation you could give as the VAR official that would make any sense. I know the officials involved have now been axed for this weekend, but it doesn't help Wolves at all, and still begs the question of how a group of officials could be so incompetent as to miss such an obvious foul. There is absolutely no point in having VAR if it isn't catching such clear and obvious errors in a referee's call. That is literally what it's supposed to be for.

It was certainly a good enough team to beat Ipswich on the day. I think they'd played a European game midweek and I'm sure I can remember Fergie complaining about them being tired and griping about the fixture list. The more things change...

At the very least we should have gotten a draw at Old Trafford. Hard to know how the game at Ewood would have panned out, but we were on top before the sending off and United's away record during that period was poor, so I don't think we go on to lose. Ipswich also gave United a massive helping hand by completely capitulating to that 9-0 defeat, which ridiculously swung the GD in United's favour. The only caveat to that is that Ipswich did beat them at Portman Road when they would have been expected to lose, so that negates the 9-0 somewhat. From memory United rested a number of players for that match and their overconfidence was punished.

Thanks. From the way the tale is told nowadays in certain quarters, you'd think losing Cantona had a devastating impact that completely crushed United. The fact is they ultimately slightly improved once he got suspended. It had no impact whatsoever on their results. Meanwhile we spent the majority of the season without Batty and Gallacher - with both of them fit perhaps we would have won the league before the final day of the season.

Fortunately for us Cole didn't exactly hit the ground running at Man Utd, although I think too much is made of the Cantona suspension. Maybe he would have driven them on in the final months, but I'm sure I remember reading that statistically they gained more points after he was suspended.

We got shafted by ridiculous decisions in both our games against them in 94/95, the baffling sending off of Berg at Ewood and the phantom push given against Shearer at OT. Big Ludek Miklosko wasn't standing for that though, judging by his heroic performance on the final day of the season he was incensed as we were at the injustice of it all.

Overall view... Coventry smashed Boro, who have had a really poor start to the season with two defeats and as of yet no goals. Good win for Birmingham against Leeds, who don't look from the first two games like they're a class above anyone in the division. After last week's disaster of a result and eulogies being written for Ainsworth, QPR got a solid 2-1 away win against Cardiff. Leicester managed a narrow 1-0 win away win at Huddersfield. Third defeat in all competitions for Huddersfield, looking like another difficult season ahead for them. Leicester with two wins out of two so far. Hull with a 4-2 win over Sheff Weds, who also look destined to struggle this season. Ipswich with a 2-0 win over Stoke - 22 shots to Stoke's 9, also 10 on target versus just 2. Great start to the season for Ipswich, really poor result and performance for Stoke though. Narrow 1-0 defeat for Millwall at home to Bristol City. Sunderland with another defeat at Preston, 2-1. Struggling to score and defend, it's looking a bit worrying for Sunderland at the moment. Cracker of a game between Southampton and Norwich, 4-4. Southampton can score, but seem to be pretty shaky defensively. Another excellent result for Plymouth, getting a point away at Watford. Looks like it was a good game at the Hawthorns as well, with WBA narrowing out Swansea with a 3-2 win. Another two teams who seem unable to defend very well. Early signs are that it's going to be wide open this season.

Will be interesting to hear what JDT has to say. I think he'll be quite critical. From how he spoke in the presser I think he was expecting much more than that first half performance.

I simply said we were a top half team with Mowbray as manager and Gallagher playing on the right wing. Enough said.

A couple of Ipswich mates texting me asking if the league has really dropped in quality this much since they were last in it. They dominated Stoke at home today.

I agree, just a shame that penalty miss seemed to absolutely wreck us mentally, especially Szmodics. Last season we would not have come back at all though, so there is some improvement.

Will take a point considering where we were on 70 minutes. Can't help but think a proper decent striker turns the draw into a win, but it is what it is. A lot to be concerned about with that performance, but we got away with a point, which is more than I expected at half time.

Szmodics, legend.

Rotherham must wish all of their home games were against us.

Last season, 1-0 down at half time, same scorer for Rotherham. Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself.

For anyone suggesting we don't need strikers or experience, I present Exhibit A.

Exactly, do people expect him to say "well he's not much of a striker but it's not like we have many options". JDT knows full well Gallagher isn't much good as a striker, but he'll do everything he can to get maximum out of him whilst he's here.

Always been a fan of that Haaland fella 😎

Brighton using the time-tested FM strategy. Buy from South America for cheap, sell for big profits.

Would be a pretty big risk. A bad injury towards the tail end of the season and suddenly he's got a big problem. Whilst this may have been viable a couple of years ago, at 30 I'm not sure it would be particularly sensible to wait another year. If he wants trophies then at Bayern he's practically guaranteed a few. I'm sure his wages and signing on fee will be nothing to sniff at - chasing even more money simply to waste another year of a career that's entering the latter stages would be a questionable move imo.

Kane was desperate to leave Spurs last summer, so I'm not convinced breaking the PL goalscoring record is that important to him. I guess we'll see - sounds like the Bayern transfer is all but done if personal terms are agreed.

Probably the first manager (who has actually stuck around) under Venkys who actually cares about the supporters, to the point where he's even willing to go to bat for us in the press. Good lad is JDT.

Quite a few clubs in the PL who seems to have serious cashflow problems this season. You wonder how it's possible with the amount of money sloshing around in the top league, then you look at some of the ridiculous wages, agents fees and such paid for very average players and start to see where it's going.

He came out with an odd comment in a recent presser about being stuck with "third and fourth choices," for bringing in strikers... great way to sell a move to potential signings there. We didn't particularly want you but you'll have to do. A lot of Sunderland fans seem to think he'll walk based on his body language and demeanor, but how often did people say that when he was here? It's no indication as he usually looks and sounds downbeat anyway. As for the board getting rid of him, seems possible as it was obvious they wanted someone else in the summer but presumably bowed to fan pressure to keep him on - or were knocked back by their preferred candidates and begrudgingly kept him on. Doesn't seem like a great situation regardless, and changing manager at this stage with such a young team would be risky to say the least. Would be a weird one for Dack as well. Reunited with his mentor only to see him leave weeks later.

The big man off the mark.