Whitey Grandad

Where was the foul? Many reports thought the same and the closest officials to it didn’t have a problem with it.

From what I can see all roads are moving freely at the moment but a lot depends on what comes down later, if anything.

‘Obviously the correct decision’? Many disagreed with the VAR overruling the goal.

? Henry didn’t punch the ball into the goal. It bounced up an his hand happened to be there and could be said to have controlled the ball but he was wide of the goal and stuck it in with his foot.

As always When these conditions used to be a regular occurrence then ‘everybody’ would have had experience of driving in them. The trouble now is that there is a whole generation who think they can go flying around as though nothing had changed. It only takes one person to abandon their car in the wrong place and we all suffer.

Sure, why not?

A handball decision is always a subjective decision. Not as to whether there was any contact between the ball and the hand but there are a lot of other factors to be taken into consideration.

I’m ok. Try clearing cookies.

“clear penalty” Again, this is subjective and not definitive. My views are well known. It is an abortion that ruins the tempo of the game. I used to enjoy watching rugby twenty years ago. Now it’s turned into American Football with all the stoppages. Totally unwatchable.

Handball is a subjective decision so one person’s view will be different from another’s.

That’s understandable. The problem is all the other drivers.

“Snow ankle deep” That was never a problem in my day. The trouble now is that we have a generation who have never experienced these conditions. It’s perfectly possible to drive on such snow but it does require a totally different approach. For us oldies these conditions are not unprecedented. We used to call it ‘winter’.

Agreed. Been there, done that.

Oops, did I miss something? Too many freds, I say. How about editing a thread title? Just a thought...

The club website has the game down for 13:30 on Sunday the 18th on the BBC. https://southamptonfc.com/fixtures/2017-18 And the BBC too http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43225939

What was the ‘orange ball, orange ball’ game. Was that away to Villa?

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.