Whitey Grandad

Does the 19 include the foul on Cavani that was overruled?

Yellow cards cannot be reviewed after the match. There is ‘bringing the game into disrepute’ but that is separate and more serious.

True, but that only applies only if a penalty is awarded since a goal scoring opportunity still exists. Making the TV sign is supposed to mean that a decision has been changed as a result of the review.

One more thing. You can go into the NHS site again if you know your booking reference but you cannot amend your bookings, you can only cancel them and go round the block one more time.

We had our NHS letters today and I think we have appointments for both our doses but the online booking system is a pile of dogshit. You choose your locations and date and time by put by the time you get to the ‘confirm’ page the appointments are no longer available so you have to go back to the start and enter it all again and by the time you get to ‘confirm’ the appointments are no longer available and... I have received over a dozen text messages confirming my appointments followed by one saying that they’re cancelled. There is a web page which talks about reference numbers but the are blue text on a blue background and you wouldn’t see them if you didn’t know they were there. My wife got as far as the ‘confirm’ page but mistyped her contact details so didn’t confirm the booking but when she went back to the start it asked for booking references which she hadn’t been given yet so she was stuck in a lockout loop. In the end we rang the 119 number and got put through to a young lady working from home on a bad phone line. That was painful but eventually we got there. It turned out that we did have bookings but no way of knowing what they were. I have received five emails. The first two tell me that my second appointment has been cancelled. The third tells me my dates. The next two tell me that my second appointment has been cancelled. None of the four cancellation emails state the details of the appointment that it thinks has been cancelled. Itis one of the most amateurish systems it has ever been my misfortune to meet.

He will be on Sunday.

The commentator said something about that but Martial was right in the middle of the goal area and it was an obvious goal scoring opportunity. All very strange. Why suggest that he went to the monitor?

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.