Whitey Grandad

We've talked about this before. This is exactly why any supposed statistics are meaningless crap.

Bin it.

A player that leaves the pitch is considered to be on the goal line as far as offsides are concerned but as you say the ball came to him off a Millwall player.

The referee did his job.

Yeah, I’ve got the whole game recorded on my TV. He runs into the box, then turns and jumps into Bazunu. He gets his head to the ball first but he also prevents the goalkeeper catching the ball. Six and half a dozen.

No, it wasn’t a foul. It was a ‘natural coming together’. There is a different interpretation when a goalkeeper is involved. Their player might have pretended to have been injured but it wasn’t from any body contact from Baz who turned away to his left at the last moment. He did it for effect.

I noticed something else yesterday. At kickoff we won the toss and chose to attack the Chapel End meaning that they weren’t attacking the end with their fans in the second half. This also happened in an earlier home game that we won (QPR?)

Yes, it wasn’t a penalty.

Why do you say that? Are you saying that he wasn’t running backwards? That’s s exactly what he was doing.

I don’t think the ref missed it because it was right under his nose but you’re right, it was a scissor action.

He backed right into Bazunu!

Look at it again, like I just have. Their player was running backwards.

I prefer Rushball.

The arms don’t count when considering offsides.

How can I have been 100% when the referee saw it differently? Why do you consider it to have been a foul? Isn’t the attacker also fouling Bazunu by backing into him thus preventing him from getting to the ball? It was a natural’ coming together’.

The Championship have decided against it. Offside? Not enough that you’d have noticed. It was the exactly the sort of offside situation that football has been using for decades. Only VAR could possibly have given it. Why do you think Bazunu’s attempt was a penalty? It was as much the attacker backing in as anything. It was a natural coming together.

That height difference surprised me. He looks several feet taller but is actually 1.78m against 1.80m for Manning. This is nothing. I’m 1.75m myself. I like him. He has a proper footballer’s stature.

RM seems to think that once the players learn his system all will be fine. He doesn’t seem to realise that it’s his system that is the problem.

What you have to realise is that if we score a goal we lose possession. That cannot be allowed to happen.

Perhaps I was not harsh enough. It was the main reason that they scored. He was under no pressure yet still managed to have his pass intercepted leaving Edozie and Bree to cover the sole of our left side. Breeze tracked his man inside whilst Edozie was struggling to keep up with their attacker. There’s no point in having the bulk of the possession if the opposition just needs to wait for us to make our customary mistakes.

He makes too many mistakes.

He always has at least one mistake in him. That underhit pass last night was inexcusable. He was so far upfield that any mistake left us cruelly exposed.

West and north from there. The rest of Ukraine then Moldova. The Baltic States.

That’s not what I call football. That’s just kicking the ball around. There’s no purpose in it.