Very bad decision by Mike Dean for the red card, and then other poor/debateable decisions after that. Not his best game by a stretch. But even with 10 men, WH were managing to keep Utd at bay until into the second half. They could have nicked it, but typical that when it would have worked well for us, they couldn't manage it. Utd looked very, very lacking but as ever, get the luck in their direction.
As bad as the sending off was, i thought Alan Smith's comments at half time about the incident, and Mike Dean specifically, were out of order. Yes, Dean got it wrong, but Smith was getting very personal and almost abusive about Dean, going well beyond what should be in his remit as a pundit.
I used to be totally against the use of video technology but I have changed my mind over the last 12-18 months. If the technology can be used to replay an incident over and over and over, mainly to berate the officials (who sometimes deserve it, but mostly don't), who only get one shot at making a call, then the same technology has to be available to aid those same officials. If I was a referee I would be insisting on it. If we want to get a decent calibre of referees coming through, then it has to be introduced sooner or later.
But all in all, normal service resumed. Utd get the decisions, keep hot on the heels of us and the top 4, and Sky are happy.
Just because it's a new year, we didn't really expect anything to change, did we?