Whitey Grandad

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?

Last time Bertrand got sent off by VAR for doing nothing wrong.

Govern! I was trying to think of his name. They both engaged their feet before their brains.

The TV companies have bought the coverage and now they’ve bought the game too. I said this at the beginning about VAR. TV has gone from being a spectator to being involved in the matches.

The whole concept of VAR is wrong. It cannot be accurate for such close borderline decisions. Huddle raised the point about the timing of the ball being hit being vague and both he and Ferdinand say that for any defender in the future the decision will be to clear the player out rather than get sent off for trying to avoid him.

What really annoys me is that Martial feels that he has to cheat to win a penalty. They were winning comfortably anyway. That is despicable.

Yes. Stupid isn’t it.

Cheating c**t Martial. That’s a f*cking dive.

They are all checked. You just don’t get to see it at home. McCarthy doing his crouch out of the way act again.

Once again the freeze frame shows a blurred ball.

We’re gonna win 5-4 !