It is getting to the time of the year when some people like to talk about Alex Ferguson’s mind games, and he obliged them before the weekend with some mildly provocative comments about Manchester City’s recall of Carlos Tevez.

I’M writing before kick-off in Spain but for once I can genuinely be insouciant enough to suggest that it doesn’t really matter how we did last night; all eyes have been on next Sunday since full-time in Brum.

SO for two weekends in-a-row, we’ve had two-goal victories on the back of severely disputed refereeing decisions, which would ordinarily cause the more fair-minded such as me to squirm uncomfortably.