Manchester City 3 - Fulham 0

I certainly don't remember any of Fulham's chances, aside from when Dzeko deflected the ball onto hart's post, so they can't have been much cop. The penalty Johnson won was a bit on the soft side now that I've seen a replay, but Martin Jol should STFU and stop trying to brand him a diver - it's out of order for other managers to influence the referees this way (Yes Redknapp and Slur, I'm talking about you, after all, you've both got previous for it!). Unfortunately, once Mike Dean had awarded that one, there was no way he was going to award us the two much clearer shouts we had! It would also seem that was behind his mystifying decison not to give Baird a straight red for his decidedly nasty challenge on Dzeko. Today we were fortunate that these three key decisions didn't cost us, but don't let the 3-0 win cover up the fact that we're still not getting key decisions from the ref. Even the linesmen are still making crucial mistakes, as twice Clint Dempsey got away from Kolarov into a good attacking position - by using his arm to direct the ball away from the defender. I can undserstand the ref missing it, but the linesman needed to man up and give a decision. had they scored because of Dempsey's handballs City fans would, of course have gone mental and been accused of sour grapes - but little things like these can change games, but are unfortunately never shown on the edited match highlights. All in all a good professional performance from City, but I'd still like the referees to do their job properly.

That was a good performance.