Whitey Grandad

It was 6-0 at the time on 85 minutes.

I undeleted my recording and watched the monitor incident again. Dean spends 56 seconds at the monitor. The first 18 seconds are spent showing him the incident in slow motion from the camera in the normal central stand position. They show this same clip three times. The remaining 36 seconds he is staring at a still frame long shot taken from high up on the left of the stand. At one point he looks to his left and shakes his head with a puzzled expression. As he walks away he has a few words into his microphone and here we need a lip reader. I don’t think he learnt anything from the monitor. To be fair to him he looks concerned as he walks back to issue the red card. I think he has been let down by the VAR team.

Understandable. You might need to clean your screen now.

Rob Styles was born in Waterlooville for what it's worth.

Too many penalties at Old Trafford and all for the home team. https://www.myfootballfacts.com/premier-league/all-time-premier-league/premier-league-penalty-statistics/

No, the intersection of all three lines is at pitch level.

It has to be someone qualified in the Laws of the Game. Once you start putting it to the vote you're going to get a phone in competition or worse.

He looked at the screen but wasn't shown any action. You can see him talking to someone on his microphone. but nothing changed on the screen. He gives a puzzled look to his left and says something, probably to the fourth official. I think thay intended to show him more but the technology mseed up. The broadcast cameras covered his view all the time that he was stood there.

Quite possibly. It's just that when something that inexplicable happens people start looking for explanations.

They thought that it was more than just his fingers but they’re the only people who even thought that it might be offside. VAR was looking for a reason to disallow it. Nobody on the Man Utd side thought that it was offside.

But what did he get wrong? There is no excuse or explanation for what he did or how he did it. It was an unnatural action with no obvious purpose. That doesn’t happen in any game at any level without some malicious intent.

Yes, that wouldn’t be fair ion the Sunday leagues. That was where I used to flaunt my mistakes. Ive also played in a lot of 9-0 defeats myself. Sometimes even worse than that.

It’s because of the ruling that the offender has to make a genuine attempt for the ball in order not to be sent off. Making a genuine attempt to get out of the way doesn’t count. This obviously wasn’t fully thought through.

Yes, it’s unlikely but you would be amazed at what goes in with this behind the scenes betting. Jason Dodd once scored a screamer at The Dell and all his teammates celebrated wildly with him. They all had him down to score the first goal. Usually it’s something a lot less serious than a sending off though. George Best once went through a whole game only using his left foot and even scored a goal with it after a promise to a friend.

To be brutally honest I don’t care about Jankewitz or his future. I only want what’s best for Saints.

It’s nearly 55 years since my Latin O-level but I think the correct description is Biggus Dickus Maximus.

Could be. I just think that he was shown nothing on the monitor to make him change his mind.

It’s a law with unintended consequences. It was introduced to save goalkeepers from being sent off if they had made a genuine attempt to go for the ball. The basic problem here though was giving the foul against Bednarek in the first place. There is almost universal agreement that it was never a foul.

You can’t blame Mike Dean for the offside goal. That decision was made hundreds of miles away. Nobody on the pitch thought it was offside, not even the well-rehearsed Manchester Utd back four. Everything else though...

No matter how generous you are I can’t see his action as an error of judgement. To go flying into someone with your leg stretched out straight in front of you is only going to end in one thing. The ball was on the ground so why was his foot two feet of the ground?

I think he just got fed up waiting for Stockley Park to show him something and went with his original decision. In all the time that he was stood at the monitor he was only shown the one camera angle from a long shot and most of that was a frozen frame. You can see him saying something to the fourth official with a puzzled look.

When Mike Dean went over to the pitchside monitor they didn’t show any replays, just a still image. What was the point of that? Even Dean seemed confused by what he was supposed to be looking at.

What on earth was he thinking? It wasn’t an attempt to get the ball, he wasn’t trying to force McTominay in a different direction, he just went flying in with his leg straight out. Roy Kean would have been proud of that.

Let’s be honest. We all knew it was going to be a snooker score when Jankewitz got sent off

It wasn’t 10?