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He’d play them on the left.

Just out for the rest of this season then.

But going 2-0 up in the second is ok?

Ouch Wait for the swelling to go down a bit and hope for the best.

They’ve got thousands of ‘em.

I think Ramadan might have something to do with it. Maybe he has been affected more than others.

Just for you I undeleted my recording and watched it again, and very painful it was too. Yep, just outside the six yard line and the clearest foul you could ever see but still nothing that Forster could do about it. The presence of Cork was crucial.

I think it just got confused by the goalkeeper getting in the way. Technology isn’t perfect.

“Pony and trap” Rhyming slang for crap. Only ever used by those pretending to be cockerneys

They killed thousands of Ukrainian civilians and now they’ve started on their own.

Ian Whittell in The Times doesn’t agree with you. I wouldn’t qui Go as far as him and I though Forster might have done better with their disallowed effort but he did have two opposition players right in his face with no defenders anywhere to be seen. “Two first-half goals would have been far more but for a stunning display from the Southampton goalkeeper, Fraser Forster, and an indifferent one from his outfield team-mates.” ”…and nine minutes later he made an equally stunning goalline save to keep out a Rodriguez header” “…when Rodriguez and Cork scrambled the ball in after another superb Forster save, but VAR ruled it fractionally offside.”

That's the 'bottom line' attitude to management, all that matters to such folks is the league position at the end of the season. Football means a lot more than that to me. I want the team that I support to go out and have a real go at it in every game they play. I want to feel that we have a chance of scoring some goals in every game that we play. I want some excitement now and again. The league position is not something to be targeted in itself. Take care of the formation and performances and the league table will take care of itself. And we're not 9th in the table, we're 13th with a goal difference of minus sixteen!

Based on his last ten games or so I would be looking elsewhere for next season.

I have tried but the milk just keeps running through them. I think I’ll stick to using a spoon.

If FF had not shoved Cork out of the way then that goal would definitely have been ruled out for offside. Perhaps he should just do nothing and let himself be obstructed?

It was more than six yards. That was never a goalkeeper’s ball.

You are miles out. There was nothing he could have done about their second goal. He was the only one to come out of that game with any credit. It’s not the goalkeeper’s job to control his penalty area. That is supposed to be done by the defence.

I’ve had enough.

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Yep. And offside.

Don’t be silly.

VAR is not used for ball in or out of play, nor should it. My views on VAR have been quite clear. I don’t like it at all. I don’t like the way that it is being used to re-referee the game.

Good point.

From The Times on Tuesday, “Eddie Howe has identified Newcastle United’s mid-season break in Saudi Arabia as the turning point in their rise from relegation favourites to all but guaranteeing Premier League survival. Newcastle were second-bottom after 20 matches, with only 12 points on the board, but have won eight of their past 12 games to climb to 14th — 12 points clear of the relegation zone.”

He’s been responsible for letting a lot of goals in. Norwich away comes to mind. We can do better and we should.