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Looking at the blur on the ball, that still was taken after the ball was struck not as the ball was was struck. Someone needs to check the officials' bank accounts on Monday

We were poor. Villa were poor. The officials were poor (corrupt?). With competent decision making we get at least a point out of the game, despite being out of form and injury plagued. I'm usually pragmatic rather than emotionalwhen we lose but complete injustice the way we lost that.

In all seriousness, if they're going to include the arbitrary length of a piece of cloth in their decision making then players should roll their sleeves up to their shoulder. If Ings wasnt wearing a black arm band he may have been onside. Utterly bonkers

This. I'd rather Ralph called out the officials for the crooks they've been and spend a few games in the stand rather than not say anything at all.

If they took that measurement from the black armband that is criminal

We need to play in vests with no sleeves FFS

Mike Dean would have given that offside though...

There's got to be some kind of brown envelope scenario going on here, surely?

I give up with all these injuries

Djenepo right back... Que? Edit: Ralph sending a big fat hint to the board?

Isn't this just our usual mid season blip though? Can't remember us never having a poor run of games in the winter, even in the Koeman hay days

We're too nice. No-one in the face of the referee at half time to berate the penalty decision

Cock. Free header FFS

Surely it's worthy of a suspension by the PL? It wasn't an honest mistake, it was willful neglect of duty.

Love listening to Ralph's constant running commentary on the 'stadium sound' audio option

Win, lose or draw, Ralph has to lay into Dean in the post match interview. Don't care if he gets a touchline ban in the process.

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It gets me ahead of @Matthew Le God in the queue...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/

Yep, there's clearly a lag between becoming eligible on the booking system and being told about it. My advice to anyone who is waiting for a letter / text is to try out the online system anyway.

Funny old season

I'm 52 but classed as 'CEV', so in priority group 4. Was hoping to get my invite by now but nothing received yet. However, I went onto the online booking system on the off-chance today and was able to book a slot for next week (at local Superdrug) Huzzah!

I may be mis-remembering things here, but my recall is that Ralph used to eulogise about how important it was to his system not to play players out of position. I guess it's a case of reality trumping idealism. (Or just my poor memory!)

Because if they'd placed orders amounting to 'just enough' they'd be slated for not ordering enough contingency stock to cover production or distribution issues...?