Whitey Grandad

Processed food has a lot to answer for. I think it all went downhill when they started adding salt to the crisp packets instead of you having to open the little blue packet yourself. Then they introduced all those exotic flavours. Edit: No cars either. Public transport or walk unless you were rich enough for a bike. Eat less and move around more. That's all it takes. I can be somewhat smug because I have lost 11 Kg in the last 20 months. Still another 7 or 8 to go

Precisely! That's what being a control freak does to you.

In Chandler's Ford?

Unfortunately I'm not old enough to play golf

This comment is extremely insensitive but my father told me that his doctor would say "You never saw a fat person in Belsen" (excluding the guards, obvioulsy) 'You are what you eat' has always held true. If only there was some supplement or table that they could take.

Some people just like having control over what other people do.

There is a section of the Government who are enjoying their new-found powers. Aided and abetted by their tame scientists who don't have to take account of the wider picture. The media have a lot to answer for in my opinion.

The control freaks are desperate to keep their chains around our necks. If Spanish Flu hadn’t mutated then it would still be with us.

My problem with Stephens is that the game goes over his head, both figuratively and literally. He seems unable to judge the flight of the ball and ends up jumping under it allowing a forward to get a clean header. True, he has scored a couple of goals in the past from set pieces but these tend to be glancing headers. As a centre back I want to see him getting his forehead on the ball and thumping it back up the pitch.

It was my team

I played RB

Nope, not worried at all. Yet

Don’t try to be codescending to me, you’re not very good at it. Your understanding is very limited. He was beaten and he was standing at his near post. It’s called his near post because that’s where the shot came from. Come back when you’ve played in, watched or refereed over 2500 games. Until then keep your snide comments to yourself.

To be fair, this wasn’t a case of VAR going against us. It was a referee making two inconsistent decisions.

For Gawd’s sake. He was at his near post for a shot close to his near post. That was a near post goal. Always has been and always will be.

You’re all too young. You’ve been watching too much soccerball.

There’s something wrong with our basic game plan. We’re too busy trying to play the ball around at the back instead of making runs at their defence. Once Armstrong went off we lost that threat.

Indeed.

You have a very narrow understanding about ‘letting a goal in at his near post’.

Covering nothing. What does it matter what side of him the ball passed? From that angle it’s a very narrow target and he has to make it smaller. He’s just not a very good keeper.

McCarty finds touch and Ralph shakes his head.

Of course I have, just as I saw it in real time. He was beaten at his near post, not inside his near post.

And where was he standing?

Yes but that’s not the point. He wasn’t beaten inside his near post and I don’t think anybody said he was. He was beaten at his near post.

Which game are we watching? McCarty was standing at his left hand post. The shot came from his left hand side.