Whitey Grandad

Not actually blatant, certainly not the first. Bringing back the game for a restart would ruin the ebb and flow, in my opinion. TV judgments have badly influenced cricket and have not improved the rugby. If you're going to have TV dominating the game then you need to rewrite the offside law because it is very difficult to judge by viewing on TV. Even Mata's 'offside' contribution to their goal was difficult to judge. The ball may have been touched on the way through by a United player. What we need are Assistant Referees to be a bit sharper. I'm not a great fan of substitutions when they are spread out and used as a means of disrupting the flow. I'm definitely against them being used in injury time.

Nightclub in Worthing??? What do they do there, have Horlicks raves, watch Strictly Come Dancing all night and then have a snooze?

Please no, no, and thrice no. I fell asleep during the rugby last night with all those stoppages. It's turning into American Football. Offside is not an exact science, we just need to live with it and get on with the game. It has survived well enough until the last decade or so until television took control.

Yes, welcome to the Premier League.

At what stage does somebody say 'Mornington Crescent' and then the thread ends?

I don't miss him, to be honest.

Part of the misunderstanding was his attempts to keep the game flowing by waiting a few seconds to see if any advantage had accrued, and then bringing the game back for a free kick. People around me thought he was giving non-existent fouls. I was bemused by the analytical decision but when you see it again on MOTD Fonte slides in and completely upends the Swansea player. Most of the fouls seemed to be for shoves and pushes which is fair enough. You don't play football with your handset stop pushing and shoving and you won't get picked up. Having said that it was the highest foul count of the day at 32 but not by much, there were a couple of games in the high twenties.

Exactly. It shouldn't have been difficult, the assistant was standing at the right place holding his flag out all the time and the referee had to point this out to him. In the end the kick wasn't taken from the right place but we could still be there now. Talking of the ref, there was a lot of abuse for him but without my red and white striped glasses I thought he was spot on throughout the game.

Your neighbour is correct. He was offside when the ball was kicked.

Arsefart

He's a smoker. Nothing in his DNA about that.

Today's papers are mixed. One says ankle injury doubt, the other says recovered.

Sherman

Schwanz for Germany.

He probably got it done in Jamaica, or somewhere near.

For Swansea?

I just want Saints to succeed. If that means using Gastón then so be it. If not, then no problem just as long as we succeed.

Bar

He's always been a good player but needs to be used properly. I felt that he was shipped out at the start of last season before Ron had even had a look at him. Whether we should adapt our style of playing to suit his talents is a different matter.

It had to be done. Now we can all get on with our lives.

Are we absolutely sure it was a chocolate bar?

Wonderful, thanks for that. No negatives from the evening. A clean sheet, lots of goals, another step in his rehabilitation for J-Rod, Ryan back on the pitch, Pelle gets a well-earned rest and a useful run out for those players not considered first-choice at the moment.

And Liverpool down to ten men.

Week commencing 26th October.

Of course he did. He must have known I'd be away