Whitey Grandad

You might think that was a mistake, others might think differently. All that you can ask is for some degree of consistency within each individual game.

He wasn't fouled. I accept that you have a different opinion but you have to accept that you are not unbiased.

That wasn't stonewall, nowhere hear it. Where do you get such ideas?

Not for the immediate future, at least. Maybe later this season he might get a few games if there's nothing to play for.

They are not mistakes, apart from some very, very few exceptions. Just because you don't agree with them doesn't make them wrong. What from last Saturday would you call a mistake?

thanks Yes, it was Falcao but if I had said 'the dirty cheating diving Chelsea player' there might have been too much ambiguity. The point I was trying to make was that we won the match 3-1 and penalty appeals by both sides were turned down by the referee. I don't think he treated us badly.

If we knew that we wouldn't have lost it.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, it was Saint Charlie who used those words, but let's understand one thing. Lifting your whistle and then not using it means nothing. You might automatically raise it in anticipation of a foul that does not materialise and this can happen many times in a game. Mané was touched and then flung himself to the ground but I don't believe that he was tripped. Some referees might have given a penalty but that doesn't make those who don't wrong or incompetent. Its definitely true that a player's reputation goes before him and it's been like that for as long as I have been following the game.

? Wasn't this the game earlier this season that we won 3-1? It would seem that I, at least, am talking at cross purposes.

I don't see why you should want him to 'owe us one'. He didn't give Costa a penalty.

If they were any good they would have been sold. Just my opinion, of course Or let me put it another way, somebody would have bought them.

I've no way of knowing this, but just a guess... are you by any chance a Saints fan perhaps?

This is where 'opinion' comes into it. Could Francis have avoided that contact, or even tried to avoid it? Ayew was running normally and was tripped by the contact with Francis's shin. Did Ayew slow down, check his run, cut across at the last minute? Not easy to see on TV.

Does this make him an excellent judge of talent or extremely short-sighted?

Ayew was tripped. You may have missed it. Ok, he ran across the front of the defender but his heel was caught by the defender's leg. I don't know what you expect the fourth official to do, he's 50 yards away.

Wasn't this the game we won 3-1?

Why didn't we score from the cross? is the more important question. If he was playing advantage he is supposed to indicate by using the proper gesture of both arms outstretched. He is also supposed to shout 'advantage' but few ever do.

Quite right. Necrophilia is dead boring.

I agree with all of that

He was flogging a dead horse, to be honest. Kept running his socks off winning corners and running into positions only for Tadic do ignore him or float the corner into Butland for catching practice.

What do you mean, 'we'?

That means nothing.

That makes more sense. All I know is that it's every two years.

Rwanda next year, 16th January to 7th February plus warm-up. Why they can't hold it every 4 years I shall never know. http://www.cafonline.com/en-us/competitions/chan2016/home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_African_Nations_Championship

LOL I'm not really jealous. Honest I'm not ?