Whitey Grandad

Please see my reply above.

Which part? This part? DENYING A GOAL OR AN OBVIOUS GOAL-SCORING OPPORTUNITY (DOGSO) Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.), the offending player must be sent off.

I've just had another look. Stephens was alongside and matching stride for stride. Enough to have probably blocked any attempted shot by Moore.

Sky know nothing about the Laws of the Game. They should all be sent on refereeing courses. It was a foul but not a DOGSO.

Not running "directly towards goal", Stephens close by and blocking the goal so not an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Edwards lucky not to get a yellow card though since there was no attempt at a genuine tackle. What on earth was he thinking? Our two penalty calls were some way off being 'stonewall'. Charles's shot hit a defender's arm that was dangling by his side and not in an unnatural position and that shirt pull on Downs was not 'significant'. Stephens's last-ditch tackle on there forward was just the right side of legal, but only just. Fine margins.

I'm just going through the recording now. Comfortably onside by a couple of yards. There was nothing wrong with the refereeing. His job wasn't helped by the players throwing themselves to the ground whenever possible.

I turned the sound off. I couldn't stand that constant whining and whinging about the referee. Sure, the penalty was harsh for any traditionalist but not incorrect under the present interpretations and thankfully VAR. No actual football to be seen anywhere. The two teams were too intent on having a brawl.

Trust and confidence take years to build up yet can be destroyed in seconds.

That would be irresponsible.

If you had one you'd spend all the time washing out those 'difficult stains' 🤭

A contradiction in terms.

A lot of gropes.

I'm 5'9" Same as Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

You're just a very naughty boy.

Something to celebrate at last. I just thought it was because we were crap all round..

There seems to be a failure of logic around this evening.

So crap that we got promoted, apparently.

It bears repeating.

Yet we got promoted.

Sounds familiar.

Let me put it this way. If he weren't already our player, would we buy him for £40m?

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/

Hell, yeah!

It is Dibling on a bit.

Two goals against Arsenal in that 'Last game at the Dell'. Not forgotten. Good grief. I've just had a look and that was over 24 years ago. Also I didn't realise that MLT's goal came in the last minute of normal time. Happy Days.