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Way offside as it first hit the post and what happened just after is not relevant. Manéwas very self-indulgent

This one's too obvious: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/11/eurosport_com_scores_headline_profanity/ And quite a few here if you're feeling a bit bored: http://www.midfielddynamo.com/players/players_bestnames.htm I do like naughty-naughty I must say.

Part of me never wants to hear a Yoshida song again, especially if he is asked to play full back.

There are other candidates. I nominate Forbes Ernest Phillipson-Masters

And let's not forget his two goals against Arsenal in the Last Game At The Dell which set up Matt's winner.

He was not the reason we lost the lead, but there were lots of little things wrong yesterday, and some not so little, and taken together they were enough to throw it away.

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If we are going to play him at full back then he needs to be drilled and practised in the role. The full back should pivot his position based on the centre halves and if the ball is on the other side of the pitch he should be just ahead of them and if the ball is his side then a few yards behind them. It was the same in the Man Utd game, he was dawdling around ball-watching and playing everybody onside. A specialist full back would position himself instinctively.

Everybody groaned, including the players.

Good point, but maybe footballers are too inflexible to realise that he was there and adapt to the situation.

Different level.

A goalkeeper's work goes beyond keeping the ball out of the net. Right from the kickoff yesterday he was flapping and dithering at everything that came his way and the defence were in complete confusion over it. Poor Virgil spent the whole game waiting for Kelvin to come and claim the ball and then kicking it away in panic at the last moment. His kicks never even reached the halfway line and always seemed to find a Leicester player. He may still have a role to play at the club but it certainly isn't between the posts. It would be a sad end to his playing career but you're only as good as your last game. Please, please, let that be his.

I think you're right about the 'open goal', it was a fair way out, but I thought he could have tried lifting it over Scmichael. I was more annoyed by his ridiculous attempt to score from 50 yards when he was behind their defence and a lot faster.

That seemed to be the case. We just weren't getting to the ball quickly enough and kept giving away silly fouls.

That's how I saw it, I'd be interested to see it later. Instead of just lobbing the ball towards goal he tried one touch too many.

Every one went to a Leicester player.

It's all been said by everybody above. Kelvin the class an should only ever be a desperation choice. Thanks, but now it's time to move on. The substitution s changed the game, I can't imagine the thinking behind them. Clasie is going to take time to get up to the pace, not his fault but not the time to play him. J-Rod is some way behind the player he used to be. Mané made the wrong decision every time he could. He was behind their defence twice and either dithered or tried the spectacular from the half way line. Why couldn't we just close the game out? Leicester just wanted it more.

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Glenn Murray in The Mail this morning blames the 'new-style pitches'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3275555/Bournemouth-striker-Glenn-Murray-blames-pitches-spate-flight-knee-injuries.html

How many did you count? No-one who knew what they were talking about thought that. It's easy enough to say that so-and-so ought to have had a penalty but when you're out in the middle with a whistle it's a lot different. If you were to give penalties for those theatrics of Mané then there'd be ten in every game. They weren't penalties because they weren't given because they were too flimsy. That's the end of it.

And a lot didn't say that.

Have you been reading old newspapers again?

Which ones? Apart from the shirt-pulling on Virgil the others were very weak.

They are not allowed to view replays at half-time. I wouldn't call the Mané incidents dead-certain myself. Some yellow cards are mandatory, such as shirt-pulling, others discretionary. Yeah, like most people he missed the attempt to steal Virgil's shirt.

It seems to me that your technique needs some attention On a serious note you are quite right. I have never broken my nose but two split eyebrows and a cut lip are witnesses to some head clashes and I too have seen coloured stars on a few occasions. I remember one match where a colleague asked me what the score was because he had a complete memory blank for the previous few minutes, something that these days should involve a trip to hospital. I'm just old enough to remember leather footballs before the plastic-coated ones arrived in the mid sixties. My dad played full back in Isthmian and Athenian League before that and he refused to head the ball if it was wet and told me that I should avoid it as well. It used to be said that football injuries tended to be leg-related whilst rugby were all necks and collar bones.