Whitey Grandad

Yes, you would hope so, but in this situation the ref has had his decision, honestly reached, as incorrect which undermines his authority. I would argue that in this particular situation Adrian knew perfectly well what he was doing in denying what he thought was a possible goal and in the general spirit of the game a red card was the least that should have been awarded. A penalty goal would stop anyone doing it in the future.

Yes, I'm with you on this. And Mané wasn't fouled either, it was deliberate handball.

...and help us to attract quality players with ambition.

There are two separate possible cases here. One is denying a OGSO by deliberate handball (as in this instance) and the other is fouling an opponent 'running towards goal'. For deliberate handball the running towards goal bit is not essential but is one of the factros to be considered. My main concern here is that an experienced referee came to his conclusion during the game and for some reason unknown that decision has been overturned. There are numerous seminars involving these referees and their governing bodies so one would assume that these types of situation would have been extensively covered in some attempt to reach some form of consistency.

Splendid new, thanks

I've been away for a couple of weeks. How are our injuries shaping up? From your team sheet I assume that Targett's injury was not too bad.

Quite so, but I'm sure we'd all like an explanation of the reason for the decision, not least the referees amongst us.

Yes, it's a debt with peculiar repayment terms.

The fans would have gone ballistic.

I thought that at first but the offence wasn't a foul on Mané, who was indeed not running towards goal, but rather a deliberate handball and the only decision there is whether he had denied an 'obvious goal scoring opportunity', which I think is normally interpreted to mean more likely to score than not.

No, this is where we belong and here is where we'll stay.

I'm ready, I don't know about everybody else though.

Me too, but also I certainly don't want to lose to Spurs.

Never complain about a clean sheet.

Sad in some ways to see him go, but thanks for all his efforts. Let's see who we get in as a replacement

Good news. He's going to be a very good player.

Don't all cocks normally shrink when you stop touching them?

Perhaps moving to Saints is his 'cure'.

But I wouldn't expect compensation for bad service in Tescos, Currys, my dentist's, my local hospital...

Complaining is fine, this is the only way to get improvements, but expecting compensation for consequential damages is going too far. Lots of sh!t happens in this world and we all have to arrange our lives around it.

I'll be disappointed now if we don't.

I met my dear missus at a St Valentine's evening when we were both still 16. February 12th 1966. What a great year that was, Geoff Hurst's hat-trick and all that

The ambassador's been summoned to have his wrist slapped: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/11378119/UK-summons-Russian-ambassador-after-dangerous-bombers-disrupt-civil-aircraft.html

Yes indeed, just so long as they don't win any of them.

In case you were wondering... The final is Sunday 1st March at 16:00. Their away game at QPR set for 14:05 the same day will have to be re-arranged.