All stems from us just being too fucking nice.
Gerrard and McAllister too nice to put pressure on the refs - even subtly - before or after games.
The players too nice to be going in groups and getting right in the ref’s face, giving them a torrid time for 90 minutes.
Even too nice to dish out tactical fouls and stop the opposition building up a head of steam - Goldson against Feyenoord for their second goal a prime example.
We’re so nice, so naive, I’m honestly at the point of thinking we deserve all we get. Everyone knew Aberdeen would be physical but we just let them do it when we should have been seeing players surrounding and screaming at Beaton from a foot away, proper Man Utd under Ferguson stuff
But no, just too nice.