The Cardiff fans are happy. The Cardiff players are happy. That's four points they've taken off the two Manchester clubs this season. What a game that was. Cardiff will feel aggrieved that Wayne Rooney wasn't sent off for his swipe at Jordon Mutch and, equally, relieved to have snatched a point at the death. United had enough chances to win it - and Rooney should have won it for them after Kim's equaliser - but this was an unconvincing performance from them. Again. Thanks for reading. 

90 min+4: Cornelius dribbles a low shot straight at De Gea from 25 yards.

90 min+3: How are your nerves, Cardiff? A United free-kick falls to Smalling and he swipes wide! Oof.

90 min+2: And Rooney should restore United's lead straight away! Turner didn't deal with a hopeful hoof forward and in stole Rooney. He simply had to score but instead of shooting he tried to set up an open goal for Welbeck to his left only to totally mess up the pass, allowing Marshall to gather. What was he playing at? What a miss.

90 min: Before the free-kick can be taken, Neil Swarbrick decides that both players will respect his authority - surprisingly it was because he spotted a wee elbow from Fellaini on Medel, who responded with a slap back. On we go. And...

89 min: Cardiff keep on pressing. Noone - ha! - skips down the left and is clipped by Smalling. Another free-kick.

86 min: Tom Cleverley is booked because he fouled someone. I missed who because I was busy marvelling at Andy Packman.

85 min: This is a weird but excellent email from Andrew Packman, who has been allowed on to his mum's computer. Yay for Andy!

wow. Is there a more sanctimonious, grudge filled and pompous creature on the planet than a guardianista?! 
I am of course referring to the earlier reference you made to the extent referees are pressured by red tops into 'favouring' certain footballers. Of course, for your point to stand you had to consciously dismiss the yellow card given to that famous red top favourite, Mirallas who indeed received a yellow card for a quite disgraceul challenge on Suarez.
Putting aside the observation that you have quite clearly omitted the Mirallas incident to fit your pompous derision of tabloid journalism, why is it you lot disdain the tabloid reading working class to the extent you do?
Is it that the working classes can see through your metropolitan and removed pontifications over our relationship with the state asnothing more than naiv, childish self imposed guilt? The refusal to acquiescece to your statist prognoses to our ruptured society? I don't know, please tell.
But, please don't say it's because we're thick and brainwashed by the mail and the sun. Do engage in a bit of effort please.
In the mean time, do grow up. You pernicious git."

Andy, there, ending up writing a politics essay when he meant to send an email about a football match. Strong work. But in answer to your first question - you.

84 min: Before the corner can be taken, Andreas Cornelius, Cardiff's £7.5m Danish striker, replaces Campbell, who stretched something going for that header. The first thing the big Dane does is head Rooney's corner away. What an impact!

83 min: Cardiff attack. Taylor hoists a cross to the far post and Campbell heads back across goal. The ball is knocked down into the six-yard box but cleared in panicky style before Kim can pounce. United counter at some speed and Rooney wins a corner on the right.

81 min: It should be game over. It is not game over. Rooney and Welbeck combine devastatingly, Rooney chesting down to Welbeck, Welbeck lobbing an overhead pass to Rooney and Rooney sending Welbeck through, but given the chance to wrap the game up, Welbeck sidefoots over the bar. He's not scored in the league since the opening day.

80 min: Turner sends an uncontrolled header over from Whittingham's free-kick.

78 min: As it stands, the Premier League table is starting to look more familiar, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United making up the top four and Manchester City in fifth place.

77 min: Jordon Mutch off, Kim Bo-Kyung on.

75 min: United's substitutes almost combine for a killer third goal. Giggs pops the ball over the Cardiff defence but Welbeck's touch is too heavy, allowing Marshall to smother. "I remember hearing a great story about Peter Noone, of Herman's Hermits fame (one for the teenagers, there), being paged in Tokyo Airport, with "Would Mr. No One please come to the courtesy desk"," says Colin Mackay.

74 min: "Wouldn't it be best all round if Rooney were to be injured trying to tackle, er, Rooney-fashion, at the end of the season and/or be suspended for inhaling the red mist in the Denmark friendly?" says Lou Roper. "Then, the S*n et al. can both blame him for his serial immaturity and lament 'what might have been' when 'plucky England' (TM held by the FA) go out on penalties in the second round? On a more important note, agreed on Rocky and Bullwinkle. Consistently outstanding and Fearless Leader ('there's one guest shot') deserving of a call-out."

73 min: Ryan Giggs replaces Javier Hernandez. The Cardiff fans aren't sure what to do. Some boo, some applaud. I settle on both. A booplaud.

72 min: Cardiff have found a second wind. Another corner. Whittingham to take it. The noise increases. Mutch is in front of De Gea. De Gea catches. Well done to him. Then, as he's about to clear the ball, it's knocked out of his hands. Hilarity! And a free-kick.

71 min: From Whittingham's free-kick, Cleverley almost scores an own goal but his attempted clearing header whistles inches over with De Gea stranded. From the resulting corner, De Gea punches away.

70 min: Evra is penalised for handball on the right flank as he tries to tackle, er, Noone. You can have hours of fun with that name. 

69 min: "My dear sir, I'm not seeing any of my emails on here," says Felix Salazar. "I am angry, yet I'm even more angry at how useless Fellaini is. Nothing but fouls! I thought we were past that when Scholes retired." Have you just mentioned Fellaini and Scholes in the same breath?

68 min: It's past Adnan Januzaj's bedtime. On comes Danny Welbeck.

67 min: "In the photo of 5.09pm, Vincent Tan seems to have a truly enormous head - how can this be?" says Andrew Benton. "Or has there been some dodgy Photoshopping going on? "

Not as big as Robbie Keane's. He looked like a bobble head on Goals on Sunday this morning. 

66 min: Look at the pictures! Look at the pictures! Look at the pictures!

65 min: Odemwingie shoots from 35 yards out and knocks out the man in Row Z. His punishment is to be replaced by Craig Noone.

64 min: Nothing is really going on at the moment, just some aimless toing and froing from both sides. 

61 min: "Hi Jacob, yes, nice change of topic," says Nigel. "I like your choice but believe Rocky and Bullwinkle were the best ever. Not only did they have a wry sense of humour, the whole show was brilliant: Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody, Boris & Natasha....in no way a humble opinion."

The bottom of Nigel's email reads: "Visit Toronto - for a cracking good time." I do hope that's not a dig at expense of the estimable mayor of the city.

59 min: Valencia crosses, Rooney heads over, the Cardiff fans chortle. It wasn't much of a chance. "You really should have 'Fellaini heads over' as a standard line to insert," says Jerome Mallon. "He is also terrible." Well, he's better than that, but it's not really working at the moment and I'm not sure there's much more to come.

58 min: United could do with emerging from underneath this cosh Cardiff have placed over them.

57 min: Martin Tyler really wants Cardiff to win. 

54 min: Campbell hits the bar! Moments after almost wriggling in between Evans and Ferdinand, he's through again, set clear by, er, Cleverley. Where have the defenders gone? Campbell should probably release Mutch to his left. He doesn't. Instead he decides to go for the chip, much to De Gea's surprise, and his outstanding effort floats over the United goalkeeper and on to the face of the bar! So unlucky. Moments later, Whittingham is booked for something or other.

52 min: Marshall saves Cardiff again! Smalling meets Rooney's corner at the near post but his powerful header is saved by Marshall's knees. Anything will do. From the next corner, Fellaini heads over.

51 min: Januzaj draws Caulker in, feathers the ball round him and is sent flying. Booking for Caulker! Booking for Caulker! And nearly a goal for Manchester United! Rooney, who else, curls the free-kick in and Fellaini afros the ball towards the far corner, only for Marshall to brilliantly turn it behind. What feline reactions!

50 min: "Afternoon Jacob. Reading all the Rooney / referee guff is just making me annoyed," says Simon McMahon. "So, I'm going to pour myself a large Baileys and ask, what's your all-time favourite cartoon character(s)?" Marvin the Martian.

48 min: Silence.

47 min: Again, Rooney takes the corner. Fellaini does well to head it behind for a goal-kick.

46 min: The second half begins. Medel takes no time at all to give United a corner on the right. Rooney's corner is headed away but only to Januzaj, whose rasping volley is deflected wide by Caulker.

Wayne Rooney, by the way, is a 28-year-old man but he still behaves like a petulant teenager at times. He can be a total liability when things aren't going his way. Won't the World Cup be fun!

"What confuses me, as with Mirallas, the ref gives a yellow," says Sally Officer. "Which means both refs saw both incidents, right? So are the refs saying that having seen said incidents that, according to the laws of the game, they are yellow card offences? Diabolical officiating."

It has been suggested that Whittingham was blocking the referee's line of sight but I'm not buying that one - in that case, what did he see?

The more the Rooney incident is shown, the more ridiculous it is that he wasn't sent off. People who reckon that big clubs get the decisions will be ... annoyed.

44 min: Apparently Vincent Tan has been standing up for the entire game. What a man! What legs of steel!

43 min: Januzaj falls over and asks for a free-kick. He does not get a free-kick. 

41 min: Cardiff are causing havoc at set-pieces. Another is flung into the box from left to right and this time it's Turner who keeps the ball alive, heading it across. Whittingham fastens on to it but slices his volley over.

39 min: Cardiff are creating chances at a furious rate now. Odemwingie feeds Taylor on the left and he crosses it firmly first-time. Cowie arrives at the near post but his stabbed right-footed effort flies well over.

36 min: Cardiff almost take the lead! A long free-kick from Whittingham is headed down by Caulker. Campbell controls and turns but is off-balance as he shoots, skying his volley.

35 min: Cardiff went straight through Manchester United's soft centre there. Though it's hard to be too critical of the visitors. That was just a mighty fine goal.

32 min: "Maybe the referees have some kind of arrangement to try balance things out," says JR in Illinois. "Yesterday we had two players completely wrongly sent off (Wes Brown and Bolasie) and one player allowed to stay on after what should have been a clear red card (Mirallas). So Swarbrick's non-sending off of Rooney today has tied things up at two. Either that or the refereeing is just often incompetent. (Of course I do always note that players do not help matters with their near constant attempts at cheating.)"

30 min: Neville is musing about United's poor passing since the goal. Coincidentally they have Tom Cleverley and Marouane Fellaini in central midfield today.

28 min: To be honest, there hasn't really been a lot in this match. Cardiff have been ruthlessly punished for one moment of madness.

25 min: Of course, it should be pointed out that while Neil Swarbrick is responsible for Rooney still being on the pitch to score that goal, he did not make Ben Turner give away the pass that led to it. "I'm a United fan, totally agree that Rooney should be off for being an utter pillock (Wouldn't be sorry to see him leave United really)," says Ben Vallance. "The point I'd make, similar to the one Gary Neville just made, around the stature of the player making the referee nervous of sending them off. Rooney and Gerrard should both have been off this weekend. What else do they have in common? Both key players for England and are therefore Red Top darlings, this undoubtedly intimidates referees who fear the post-match castigation (Shearer also got away with murder while he was integral to the national side). All referees need to do is penalise the offence, not the personality involved. Just as yesterday with Brown, the ref was influenced by Adam falling down belatedly and therefore punished according to the effects of the tackle, not the tackle itself."

23 min: Odemwingie drives down the left flank and spanks a low cross into the middle. It's too firm for Mutch to control. But this is better from Cardiff. Another cross soars into the United area. Campbell can't make anything of it but it falls to Odemwingie, who twists, turns and then raps one over the bar from the edge of the area.

21 min: Marouane Fellaini clodhops into a challenge and concedes a free-kick. This is not news, is it.

20 min: Cardiff have not reacted to going behind at all and United are putting them under huge pressure. Rooney's corner is flicked away at the near post but only as far as Cleverley at the far post. He watches the ball fall and then volleys it into the crowd of bodies. Cardiff scramble it clear with some difficulty.

19 min: Valencia goes on a wee saunter down the right flank. He's not really going anywhere and he's doing it at sub-optimal pace, but Odemwingie helpfully fouls him anyway. Januzaj curls the free-kick to the far post, where Fellaini's header has to be pushed away by Marshall. The ball eventually goes out for a corner.

14 min: It's a shame that Rooney didn't do that just before an international break. Guaranteed talking point filler for days.

13 min: On the Sky commentary, Gary Neville reckons that Rooney should have been sent off. "I had an itch on my lip whilst at acupuncture yesterday, unable to move I had to wait it out. An unscratched itch is quite a ride," says Henry Buckle. 

12 min: Rooney trots over to the left to take the corner. Luckily for him, that's where the United fans are housed. Instead of whipping it into the area, Rooney pulls the corner back to the edge of the area, where no one has picked up Januzaj. His low belter is off target but blocked nonetheless and Cardiff clear.

11 min: Javier Hernandez wins a corner for United on the left. 

10 min: Rooney will be scoring the winner now, just so you know. This is how it works.

8 min: Wayne Rooney, the mindless goon, should be scrubbing himself down and having an early bath. But the referee, Neil Swarbrick, has bottled sending off the Manchester United striker for no apparent reason. He chased a long pass down the left flank and had no chance of reaching it, two Cardiff players coming across. He tussled with Mutch, who had more or less outmuscled him, and then Rooney saw red, as it were, suddenly lashing out and booting Mutch into the air - think Montenegro in 2011. The wick of the Cardiff fans has been engaged but Rooney is only booked. Ridiculous.

7 min: Cardiff are a threat from set-pieces and they're probably going to get quite a few free-kicks seeing as Marouane Fellaini is on the pitch. He clumsily concedes a free-kick with a pull back on Whittingham on the right flank. Whittingham dusts himself down and curls the ball into the United area and Mutch glances a low header straight at De Gea, who holds. Either side of him and it would have been problematic on this zippy surface.

6 min: Here come United, looking to muster a response down their right flank. Valencia is given time and space to cross by Taylor and his cutback is controlled by Rooney. He shimmies and works a yard for a shot from 15 yards out, but it's blocked.

5 min: Crisis averted. Cardiff steam down the right flank and Cowie, from a seemingly impossible position, whips a fine, awkward, bouncing cross into the United area. Campbell is interested, Ferdinand is unsure, and De Gea has to be very decisive with his handling.

4 min: I've got an itch on the bottom of my right foot. One moment.

3 min: Cardiff's fans are in a righteous funk whenever United get the ball. Down the left, Evra drills a low cross into the Cardiff area but it's clunked clear.

2 min: Mark Payne, a Manchester United blogger and "a fan of my work", has written a book about Sir Alex Ferguson and you should buy it here. Meanwhile Cardiff win a free-kick in United's half. It's tossed into the United area by Whittingham and headed away by Ferdinand. But it's hoicked back into the area, but only through to De Gea.

And we're off! "MAKE! SOME! NOYZ!" screams the eedjit with the microphone and the Cardiff fans oblige as their team, in red shirts and black shorts, get the game going. They're attacking from right to left in the first half and make sure to boo once United nick the ball after 10 seconds.

The teams emerge! Noise! Manchester United are wearing their navy away kits. Cardiff are in white tracksuit tops, presumably so they can cover up their red monstrosities.

"Spurs in crisis?!" says Randal Smathers. "Hey, you're right. This football analysis thing is easy!" Southampton are also in crisis after an unacceptable one-match losing streak.

"No Kagawa," says Joshi Phillips. "What happened to Kagawa?" He stayed up all night watching the Ashes and is tired.

Did you know that Ryan Giggs is Welsh? Did you know that Cardiff is in Wales? Now you do.

Manchester City have just tonked Tottenham 6-0, which is bad news for Cardiff, seeing as the last time something like that happened, Manchester United won the game that followed by the score of eight goals to two.