Whitey Grandad

I was at a referees' meeting and the phone behind me buzzed three times. We were 3 - 0 up when it finished and 3 - 3 by the time I got home.

Comfortable, like 3 - 0 up?

Elephant

Yes but think of the humiliation of losing 9 - 8 after being 8 goals up.

Bar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiosolent ?

At 8 - 0 I'd still worry.

I never doubted him

Magic

Smart work, thanks.

Thanks, I've just turned over in time to miss Mané's.

We have complete control of our borders now regarding no-EU people and a fat lot of good that is. If we left the EU and stayed in the EEA then the rules on movement of EU nationals would not change.

Leaving the EU would make no difference to the numbers of immigrants coming to the UK.

That's my point. If they'd moved up quicker then it would have been more obvious that he was offside. It wasn't obvious at the time and nobody appealed or complained. They just weren't concerned about the threat, not because he was in an offside position, they just weren't on the ball. The fact is that Mata was halfway between our right back and central defender and in quite a bit of space. True he was offside, but too close to leave to chance or to an assistant ref with the sun in his eyes.

...or Yoshida could have been a yard closer to his centre. Personally I would have preferred 3 or 4 yards nearer and a call to his team mates to get upfield quicker.

Just for the record: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-and-meaning-of-the-surname-Schweinsteiger-Is-it-considered-a-funny-name-by-Germans (I always thought it meant 'pig climber' myself )

Yes, for some reason after half an hour it became a case of pass it back whenever possible. It was always going to lead to trouble but Maya's mistake was an appalling lack of concentration.

No you're not alone. Pellè also scored two which I thought were more stylish.

So with Jose in the middle that just leaves the choice of right back.

How about his first-time pass out to the right wing in the move that gave us our second goal? (That onrushing Saint was Davis and he was 20 yards out)

I don't think it's a question of Yoshi not being good enough, although that can be debated separately, more that he wasn't playing in a familiar and well-drilled formation which meant that he wasn't making his movement and passing instinctively and this led directly to Mata getting between into the gap between him and the central defenders for their first and him playing the ball back into space.

Nothing beats a settled team, especially a settled defence.

That's like saying 'Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?'

Did I miss Fellaini? Perhaps he's had a haircut or something. Whichever, his choice didn't work out too well yesterday.

His performance at Watford had nothing to do with his performance yesterday.