Whitey Grandad

More of a grimace than a smile. Maybe someone has a grip of his balls?

Yes indeed. Early doors Doesn’t the same apply to every team?

I’m not sorry to see him leave but I wish him well in whatever career he chooses.

Monopoly mathematics. ”A deal worth up to…” does not meant the quoted amount has changed hands. It shouldn’t need to be repeated, but apparently it does, that agents’ fees and commissions and golden handshakes and Goode goodbyes eat up a lot of the exchanges. Adam Crozier, who was CEO of the FA at the time, gave a talk to our referees’ meeting and mentioned Juan Pablo Ángel who had recently jouned Aston Villa for £9.5 million. He said that the selling club in Argentina only received about £1.5 million of that.

But they are the bad guy precisely because they have so many people.

Meaningless. Where are Arsenal in the real table?

“by 2020” does not mean any time after 2021.

Forster would have stopped it. Even I would have stopped it. It was nothing special.

Who do you think Stephens was marking for either of those goals? And by 'marking' I don't mean showing the opponent the number on the back of your shirt.

It’s not that difficult. I can do it quite easily from the comfort of my armchair.

In this case it was denying a goal by handball and not just a DOGSO so once it is deemed to be handball then it has to be a red card. “Where a player denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by a handball offence, the player is sent off wherever the offence“

Studs out, straight leg, moving at pace. An inch to the right and it could have been a serious injury and a definite red card. The shin pad was twisted right round to the side. Dangerous and should be stamped out, if that’s the right word. There doesn’t even have to be contact for it to be a foul, but in this case there was.

He wasn’t that late. He was caught on the ankle, took a couple of hops and then went down. It was an obvious foul and should have been given.

If he had kept his arm still he might have got away with it but that secondary forward movement was just enough for it to have been a foul.

As others have said, he watches the ball and nothing else. Man-marking is an unknown skill to him.

Standing in an offside position almost on the goalkeeper’s toes is an offside offence. Whether the goalkeeper might have saved it is irrelevant. A beautiful header though.

What defending?

Strange, that. Did we rescue a point from a losing position?

And Portsmouth lose 1-0

Just tell the ref that your name is Sid.

"Play a big role" In a good way? I look forward to seeing that.

Did they? They could have just run down his contract.

Oops. It hasn't been called that for years. The correct description now is 'unsporting behaviour' and has been for a long time. Apparently it was because the player might not actually be a gentleman.

It’s classed as ‘ungentlemanly conduct’ if it’s thought that it might cause an opponent to leave the ball. It’s better to use a name instead such as “Whitey Grandad’s” or even “Ex Lion Tamer’s”

I take everything at face value until proved otherwise. Even people.