Whitey Grandad

David Prutton covers the Football League for Sky Sports.

Pogba’s left arm was stretched out behind him fending off the Villa player which meant that Pogba’s body was twisted as he was running. That’s why he got himself tangled in his own feet. Never a penalty.

Clean sheet. Loverly jubberly.

I’m still waiting for Man Utd and everything after.

He did well up at Anfield that night.

No, it isn’t the same. The assistant doesn’t and shouldn’t have to be level with play. They must be level with the second to last defender at all times other that when they have other temporary duties.

It was even less than that. They only had a camera at one game! If you missed a goal you never saw it again.

They shouldn’t be. They have to be in line with the second to last defender. Then at the moment the ball is kicked they only have to decide if the attacking player is nearer the goal than they are.

Some did, but how often during the game did you see repeated close ups of the managers?

Incriminating evidence gets dropped/falls out of a pocket/gets forgotten. Car won’t start. Woman trips over/breaks shoe heel/twists ankle. Murderous villain gets knocked out but the history hero doesn’t take the opportunity to finish them off or at the very least take their weapons away or tie them up.

Would everyone settle for a 0-0 this time?

And sign Messi instead?

My daughter has three children at school and a husband who spends all day on Zoom meetings. Two laptops, an old iPad and a phone don’t really provide a very good interaction and puts quite a strain on their broadband. How poorer families are supposed to cope I don’t understand.

Penalty? Wasn’t it in our own penalty area?

Thanks. I’m still waiting for mine too.

True. One of the consequences of larger schools.

In my schooldays that was the norm. Nowadays they have specialist classrooms for each subject. We used to have our own desks with our own schoolbooks kept within them and the books would last for many years. Nowadays they don’t last more than a couple of terms. It is more efficient to move just the one teacher than a whole classroom of students. Saves a lot of time too.

I thought they were there already?

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Or because it wasn’t even close to a penalty.

Not at all. His body was moving forwards but he started to move his arm backwards. A classic case of ball to arm and not the other way round which would never have been a handball until recent times. If you give that penalty for us then you also have to give one against Bednarek. I don’t want to see football where half the goals are penalties. Forwards will spend the whole game trying to hit defenders’ arms.

I looked at MOTD again this afternoon (yes, I am that bored) and the player was running towards his own goal line and actually moves his arm backwards away from the path of the ball.. And yes, the handball rulings are a nonsense these days.

If it was that certain it would have been given and we wouldn’t still be debating it on here 24 hours later.

If you’re going to give that as a penalty to us then you also have to give one against Bednarek earlier. Personally I would hate to see that type of incident as a handball.

We’re still picking up points though. At the top of the table you have to keep winning in order to stay there. The games you mention are all away games and we are unbeaten in them. It wasn’t the greatest of games today but I thought we just edged it with what are limited resources. Fulham were well organised and worked as hard as we did. For Ralph this is a long term project and we are steadily moving in the right direction. Let’s see how we do against West Ham.