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Oxford United away midweek whenever that was. Closely followed by that Reading match. Souness was incensed by the ref saying something like “It’ll be all right if they don’t go at it 100%” or something. I was frozen at Wembley for the Zenith Data Cup too.

They should pay us for watching it.

Yep. And it’s going to get worse. Television has paid a lot of money and it has bought the sport.

Did somebody mention my name?

This is his fundamental problem. He doesn’t have a concept of all-out attack. Go for the throat, I call it.

Swansea have a replay against Sheffield Wednesday tomorrow. What difference this might make I cannot say.

I agree. I've just wasted some more of my time by looking at the MOTD 'highlights' and from what little you can see if looks as if Barnes's goal cones off the point of his shoulder, of the very top of his sleeve and above the flesh. Poor goalkeeping in my opinion but McCarthy can't be criticised these days. As for his 'handling outside the box' again, not clear or obvious . If you accept that he has both hands on the ball then the attempt to kick the ball is a foul on the goalkeeper. All minor points in a long season.

Photo? Video? There is now way that you can be certain from TV. On MOTD you could see that his hands were releasing the ball.

His hands were a couple of inches away from the ball at the time the ball went outside the box.

That McCarthy had handled outside the box.The only eveidence that we have (TV) apears to show that he took his hands away at the last moment.

Go for the throat. We are running out of games.

Did he? What makes you think that?

Two TV fixtures have been selected and are now up on the FA website. We are not one of them. Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion 7.45pm, Saturday 17 March Live on BT Sport 2 Leicester City v Chelsea 4.30pm, Sunday 18 March Live on BBC One http://www.thefa.com/news/2018/feb/23/fa-cup-on-tv-quarter-finals-230218

I think you need to look up the meaning of ‘intervene’. It’s not as though he rugby-tackled anybody. It was a bright day, surely the players can see a big lump in the middle of the pitch? Anyway, how can you blame somebody who was not at fault?

There’s a lot of competition.

Thanks for giving us your point of view. The ref didn’t do anything, he just stood still where he was which is what he should do. You can’t accuse him of doing something because he didn’t do anything. A ref is like a wooden post in the middle of the field. It’s up to the players to play around him.

If we get a point a game we shall end up on 37, which should be just enough. If we win one of each that we lose we should be better off than that. Much too close for comfort.

It was show on MOTD. It’s not obvious that his hands were touching the ball outside the box so you can’t say for certain that he definitely handled the ball. To me it appeared that he drew his hands away at the last moment. Anyway, so what? If he had actually handled the ball it would only have been a free kick and a yellow card. Not worth getting upset over.

This

That’s true.

And we’re not much better. So what we would you expect.

I think FIFA trumps FA. (Or is it EUFA?)

Yes, I do believe you're right.

I read that as 'going to Iran and buying drugs'. That is a really bad idea and I am in no way suggesting that anyone should do such a thing.

Allow another 30 minutes for VAR reviews