Whitey Grandad

Correct. Ball never in play - take it again.

You are assuming that all professional footballers will try their best for the team. Sometimes they will give a player a bad pass just to make that player look bad. It's not impossible that Mellis was making a point about Wago. They are both rivals for a similar playing position.

I'm insulted that you didn't insult me . Welcome back Harvey, did you sleep well?

When we first moved to St Mary's it was quite clear but it seemed to change to unintelligible a season ago, or two.

I thought everybody had to buy their own ticket under the new regime?

There was a period in the second half where all our team were retreating to the edge of our penalty area. It just invites the opposition to come and have a go at us. Pardew spotted it straight away but when the whole team is affected by the jitters it's difficult to get them to hold their nerve.

It wasn't a goal-kick, it was a kick from his hands (if you're referring to the one I think you're referring to :smt017).

Because we drew 2-2. Let me put it this way: James gave them a goal for free.

Simples. We were winning 1-0 and he gives away the most stupid, pointless, predictable penalty that you will ever see. I would have been happy with 1-0.

Er, yes...

You're right, but the disappointment is because we should have won this one.

Kelvin tipped it onto the post, so it was valid. There was a lot of encroachment, though, so if anybody else had stuck it away it may have been different.

I wouldn't miss Schneiderlin and perhaps not Lallana but the roof's useful when it's raining.

Quite right. Nothing personal, this is business. If you had somebody working for you who made that many mistakes and was buggering up your whole enterprise you'd get rid of them pronto.

How close?

If he has been ill then I will forgive him a couple of off-colour performances.

I could't see him. The two seats at the front of the directors' area were empty.

If that's the case then he should never play for us again.

There was one occasion where he was wide on the right and had been nowhere near offside at any time during the move, but apart from that he was yards offside when he should not have been. It was a criminal waste of an attack.

I thought the ref got everything spot on. The assistant on the Kingsland side got one definitley wrong and there were a couple that looked suspicious but apart from that, I couldn't fault them.

The most constructive thing that we could do is keep James away from right back. He cost us 2 points today and he has cost us goals all season. It was a stupid, pointless lunge and we just cannot afford to keep indulging him in that position. He is too slow and is never going to be a full back, no amount of positive attitude or training is going to change that. He might become an acceptable midfielder, but today must be the last chance that he ever gets to throw away a game.

James was awful, has always been awful and should never, ever be let anywhere near the right-back position ever, ever, again.

Wasn't that before the Act of Union, so presumably you mean the English at that tim? Please don't include me in 'we'. Even I wasn't a twinkle then and the sins of the fathers and all that...

What do you mean, 'we'?

Just because the big Island sometime called 'Ireland' is one of the british isles does not mean that it is part of the nation of Britain, 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' to give it its full title. It is a historical term to differentiate it from little britain, which is in France and is now called 'Brittany'. Great britain was originally just the big island on which most of us live, and technically did not include the smaller islands one of which is the Isle of Wight. Geographically the complete set of islands is called the British Isles. The big island to the west was called Hibernia in roman times and is now generally known as Ireland. I don't have a problem with that. Can we please make a distinction between geography and politics? I've looked at the handball again and it happened so quickly that I'm prepared to accept that it is just one of those things that sometimes happens. There were hundreds of refereeing decisions made in that game and this was just one of them. We can't have a plebicite for every one of them. It's only a game, isn't it?