Whitey Grandad

Two clean sheets in a row and five goals. Luvverly Does anybody know what our penalty was for? It looked more than generous to me.

I think this is the answer. There's still the occasional wildly inaccurate cross but he can get stuck in now with less fear of the consequences.

Great news! Can he play right-back?

Yes. 4 plus 1

Because they're different things. One official sees the knee getting clipped, another, who happens to be in exactly the right place and looking straight across the back line, sees some part of Davis ahead of the defenders. I wouldn't call the trip minuscule, it just doesn't show up easily on television.

Even at my worst I wasn't that bad :raz:

That's because he didn't, his left knee was clipped. If you have the time then look at it again, it's there to see if you look for it. Unless you have an anti-official agenda.

It just looked 'close' to me, certainly not obviously wrong, and if the tv shows him as level then you can't actually say for certain that it was wrong. Is there any link to the video for this?

That's close enough. If you need a freeze-frame then you can hardly criticise the officials. Technically it wasn't actually disallowed because play had been stopped by then.

Best Sheriff of Nottingham ever. Thanks for the memories Alan.

It's not all spent in one season though.

Yes, me too, although it may be down to the whole composition of the midfield and not just him. He got forward a lot more than usual for him and got caught offside a few times. I'd like to see his disallowed effort again, although I think Gomes had already stopped playing by the time the shot was made.

I very much doubt that, to be frank.

I'm tending towards this point of view. I've never forgiven him for his little spat at the start of the season when we missed out on a European run.

An American company president once told me: "Nobody's indispensable. Kennedy gets shot, we've got a new president in five minutes". The man who told me died later of a heart attack on a tennis court and his company continued without him.

Against Watford it worked well but there were a couple of occasions where there were holes where a fullback would have been. Fortunately Watford couldn't exploit them.

The trouble with these predictions is that down at the bottom it only needs a couple of quick wins to completely change the situation.

The sending off was extremely harsh but it was a definite penalty which those in the tv studio and press studios couldn't, or didn't want to see. The forward's (can't remember name) left knee was caught by Wes Brown (?) which caused him to trip. It's there to see if anyone bothers to look closely. As I have said on another thread, the referee is a lot closer and has a stereoscopic view of the incident with a much higher visual resolution. The red card was another matter though. There may have been an issue about studs showing but 'reckless with excessive force'?

I may be wrong but I'm guessing that you're sitting a lot further away than the officials? Added to that they are viewing the situation in 3-D and with a resolution an order of magnitude greater than even the best television can offer.

Yes, he was good tonight. Tends to get closed down and caught in possession at times but rescues the situation with a stretched-out leg. Good to see a full 90 minutes.

That was definitely the assistant's call. I'm central Kingsland and it all seemed OK to me but I'm looking across the line, not along it. The assistant's in the best position in the ground.

Balls into touch? This isn't rugby, you know. Ball in play or out of play is almost always the assistant's decision.

They can be the most serious but often have a miraculous recovery!

That may have been a 'transfer window injury'

Malade