I think it’s because we’re a lot closer to being where we want to be than I thought we might be at this stage, that adds to the frustration a little bit for me. Frank alluded to it himself afterwards - even though we weren’t amazing last night, we still really should not have lost that game. It’s mad to think we’ve not won any of the 3 home games, given how we started each of them.

As for the pen issue, at first when I saw the quote I thought it was damage limitation and that it’d be dealt with in-house but having seen him say it in the interview, I wonder whether it’s true that Barkley is actually the penalty taker and once he came on, he was then first in line to take it and maybe the others didn’t realise that. If it’s the latter, then that’s still not great as it means the players aren’t clear on the manager’s instructions. There are so many things that can happen on the pitch which a manager and the players can’t account for but there’s no excuse for them not being properly prepared in situations like that IMHO.