Whitey Grandad

I have no problems with teams that come to play and beat us fair and square by better football or by wanting it more but that second half was anti-football. Stop/start with pretend injuries and having to drink four swigs of water before taking goal kicks is pathetic.

I don’t agree. The first would never have been given in the previous hundred years of football history. A clear case of ball to hand. His right arm is in a natural position and the cross hits his hand and knocks it backwards. It’s a ridiculous interpretation of the law and if it is not changed the forwards will give up trying to score goals and just fire shots at defender’s arms. As I have said above. Not blatant at the time and watching the live replay just now neither of the commentators mentioned it. The referee doesn’t see it as handball even though the ball is obviously deflected but he isn’t up with play anyway. As you say, the second is really weird and is no more than a touch on the back. It is nothing compared to the forearm smash on Djenepo in their penalty area on 38:35 minutes, barely a minute and a half before the first penalty.

No need for the infantile insults. the ‘blatant’ handball was so ‘blatant’ that nobody who was actually at the game thought anything of it. If that second incident was a ‘strike’ then it should have been violent conduct and a red card. The reaction of Orsi was despicable. If I had ever given either of those as penalties I would not have left the pitch in one piece. What has happened to our beautiful game?

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We were comfortably in control until those decisions which knocked us back. We were too narrow for the first half but improved in the second.

There was the Grimsby handball down on the right just before their first penalty and the front of DCC’s shirt was being torn off him from ten yards outside the penalty area until both players were inside. That’s was upset DCC so much and he hardly touched their pathetic creep. The referee didn’t see the shirt pull because of his position and VAR didn’t refer him to it but everybody in the Kingsland could see it.

Why???

That’s not the point. There was something not right about the way that this game was managed. A referee who was out of his depth and trying hard to impress. VAR whose only purpose was to examine the last incident that went their way and not the one a couple of seconds before that should have gone ours.

But they weren’t. That’s the thing. Grimsby did nothing to deserve a win and were gifted two goals plus multiple other decisions. We scored three goal but only one was allowed to stand.

Never a foul.

What really passes me of is the Grimsby fans celebrating when they've been handed the game on a plate by the officials. They never got close to scoring.

His shirt was being pulled.

DCC'S shirt was being pulled all the way into the area.

Clumsy typing. My fingers are frozen. If I were in Grimsby now they'd coat them in breadcrumbs and flog them to Findus

I'm at the game.

That's nothing. Our lot are non- league this year.

Full marks for the spelling

If it hit his hand then it's not handball. They've not shown any replays in the ground.

So blatant that nobody in the ground saw it. None of there players and none of the officials?

We're at the ground and nobody here has got a clue about that so-called handball. Not even the players or the referee saw it. Any clues?

Bloody hell, there's another four of 'em.

I'm sitting in the car park at Woolston and a couple of blokes have just walked past carrying an inflatable haddock. Ah! The magic of the Cup.

The only people who can give a definitive answer are the local planners. A long while ago the NatWest bank in Romsey needed its roof repaired but because it is a grade 1 listed (?) building all repairs had to be identical to the original construction even though better methods were available. I think in that case it was a matter of iron ties cased in lead that were holding the blocks together. These had to be replaced like for like despite the fact that they were going to rust again.

Good idea. I’m not too bothered about Scotland and Wales to be honest.

I agree. I think that’s part of his problems. He gets crowded by his own defenders. Doesn’t excuse his limp wrists though. Does he always wear that dark strip? Perhaps if he wore dayglo orange he would look bigger. A Michelin Man suit too might block the odd extra shot.