John Brewin has filed his match report from the ground, so that’s my cue to go and find a piece of cheese. Thanks for your company and correspondence, and I’m sorry not to have got through it all – one minute this game was a stalemate, the next it was 2-2. Do join Scott Murray for the next game in the Premier League, in which another team from the north west turn up on the south coast: Brighton v Liverpool, 12.30pm (GMT) tomorrow. And, for now, do have a look at John’s report. The first word in the headline had to be Maguire.
And here’s Michael Carrick, being less diplomatic than usual. “To give one [of those penalty shouts] and not give the other, it’s crazy,” he says. “I just don’t understand it…. Massive, absolutely massive. That’s what VAR is for. Baffling really.”
Asked about making sure of being third for the next three weeks, he says: “We’re in a good place. We could have had more tonight but we’ll take it and come back stronger… We’ve made a lot of steps, I’m happy with the way things have gone but there’s still room for improvement.”
