Whitey Grandad

Maybe that knock has thrown him a bit.

Yet their goalkeeper is given man of the match.

Yep. We’ve been doing it all game. It gets us nowhere.

No worries A quick squirt of WD40 and time for another try. I don’t understand it. Aladdin seemed to conjure up a genie every time he gave it a good go.

We’re in the Tuesday lot. Let’s see what happens.

No matter how hard I rub it nothing seems to work:(

Control

That’s not an argument for changing it now.

What’s wrong with these youngsters that they have to keep changing everything all the time? I like the current crest, compared with all the others it has some style. Besides, I have a lucky Saints key ring that my daughter gave me when I first started taking her to games over thirty years ago. I clip it onto my trousers belt and take it to every game and if things get a bit sticky I reach down and give it a quick rub. If the players ever ran out and saw that I wasn’t wearing my lucky key ring there’s no telling how badly they would play. I say ‘lucky’ but so far it’s not been much help but it must come good some day.

Lockdown does that to most of us

He doesn't appear in mirrors or photographs.

When was the last time we were in the bottom three? My memory gets hazy these days.

Plus we’ve had some controversial penalty decisions go against us. More than I can remember from previous seasons.

Referees bending over backwards to justify another referee’s crap decision.

I don’t think it can be changed to a yellow. Yellow cards or ‘cautions’ are not subject to appeal or review.

They will be reprimanded but behind closed doors. Make no mistake, the referees want to get it right and are mortified when they don’t. VAR is supposed to give them extra counselling.

I said earlier that the referee could have consulted his assistant in order to buy some time or asked to go and see a replay of the incident on the pitchside monitor. I think that in previous times before the presence of VAR he would have sought other advice.

Quite. Nobody comes out of this looking good. That makes two red cards that we have had rescinded recently.

The sale of VVD?

I presume that he cannot play on Saturday so that only leaves four games for him to feature. Maybe he was brought here with a view to taking a good look at him.

Far too young. The same age as my wife’s sister. I remember his first games. He had a big price tag to live up to.

Some top managers also rotate their goalkeepers. Not only that but they regularly have different players for different games!

Care to elaborate?

They usually decide between themselves which way it goes. Sometimes there is a possibility of a doubt and you will see the referee pointing discreetly with his hand but not his arm. In Sunday League football the linesman are usually provided by the two teams and the instructions are usually “ball in or out of play and offsides” but the referee will keep a close watch on them, particularly for the offsides. Are you sure that Mike Dean didn’t add some condition upon his instructions?

Respect! ✊