Whitey Grandad

It’s not his money. He would do anything to save his own skin.

It's a classic manoeuvre and classic behaviour.

I agree with you. Poor positioning, poor command of his area, slow to get down to shots that are close to him. My disappointment with Caballero is that he’s only on a one month contract but I suppose that could be extended.

Unless Ralph has had enough of him.

They had a debate about this on MOTD2 yesterday. The wording of the interpretation of the Law is imprecise. In my view merely touching the ball with your hand does not mean that you have 'control of the ball'. In my day it was 'two hands good, one hand bad'. Simple enough for everybody to understand.

But no room to play games.

I think that situation ended quite a while ago.

NHCDAJFU

But who would you have on the bench if Lewis is in goal?

Not necessarily. We need to have two goalkeepers in the matchday squad and definitely one on the bench.

But was he? Was he kicking a dead ball or was he picking up possession from a short pass by McCarthy? I don’t know the answer myself but I didn’t notice anything unusual at the time bearing in mind the new goal kick ruling. Edit: I’ve just recovered my recording of MOTD and I see what you mean about Lyanco.

If McCarthy tells everybody that he’s ok to carry on then what can any manager do?

Come and sit in the Kingsland and you wouldn’t hear any.

He’s 40 now.

That may have been for dissent.

If he’s free then he can sign tomorrow.

I don’t think he would have run back to the line if he did not know about McCarthy’s injury. Still a silly thing to do though.

Last season was a freak. No crowds involved.

Did Lyanco take the goal kick or was there a short pass to him first?

I include Puel in that list, you may not be surprised to know. Adkins, Pochettino and Koeman were a class above.

I thought most of them had died through heart failure?

With the latest law changes it is quite common for the goalkeeper to play the ball short to a defender within the penalty area who then plays the ball further. It is then not so obvious that the keeper is carrying an injury. I must admit that I had not noticed anything unusual about McCarthy not kicking the ball downfield. There’s an analysis of the Law change here and an explanation of the implications for teams that operate a high press. https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-the-new-goal-kick-rule-change-a-primer

As was KWP. He checked but McCarthy sent him away just before JWP decided that he ought to blockade the goal line too.

A hamstring injury could keep McCarthy out until February in which case we might as well look for a permanent signing now. Apparently Forster has ‘a muscle injury’. Maybe he has been using his tongue too much?

Agreed. It was panic football in the last few minutes which is where the game management should step in. Engineer a stoppage for any reason and have a team talk to calm things down.