Whitey Grandad

Can you remember about what time that run was? There was one occasion on about 64 mins when Mané was well offside in their half and a few of those around me were giving the assistant a few mouthfuls.

I thought I was being polite! I was merely supporting my colleagues in the refereeing community and hoping to explain their decision-making. Of course I'm happy that we are doing so well, but there was nothing wrong with any of the officials yesterday, I didn't see one mistake, which is unusual.

The ref will always take the assistant's flag in these cases. Believe it or not, these games are analysed by the FA from several camera angles and all the officials are taken through their performances in the interests of improving their decision making. There is one camera that just follows the referee throughout the game.

He was offside every time, sometimes well offside. Before you berate the assistant on the line I recommend that you take the time to learn the offside law and its implementation. There is no such thing as 'benefit of the doubt' and 'any part of a player’s head, body or feet' is sufficient to be offside. If you don't like it, take it up with FIFA. http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/worldfootball/clubfootball/01/37/04/27/interpretation%5flaw11%5fen.pdf

The important thing about the BBC is that they don't have to pander to viewing figures, and if they gave more coverage to other clubs it might redress the balance somewhat and reduce the dominance of the big few.

The earlier you are the more coverage you tend to get.

Yes, but they could fit in more action if they didn't do all the tedious analysis. I try to record it and fast-forward through the talking.

What an idiot. Rooney's kick was a classic example of a straight red card and could be used in a referees' teaching video. 'Kick or attempt to kick an opponent' describes it perfectly, it doesn't have to be dangerous or vicious, stupid and petulant is enough in itself.

Who was the lucky fellah?

I must admit that. Had my doubts as to whether he would turn out to be anything more than a good Championship level striker but he's doing his best to prove me wrong.

Glad you enjoyed it. If we win every time you fly in then you are most welcome

All timing is determined by the referee who signals to the fourth official how much added time there will be as a minimum.

Me too. Contribute to clean up or something for a local charity.

Disgusting, shameful, depressing. Sometimes I despair for the future of our country.

Of course I read it before replying, but as I said different people will read different things into the vote. Salmond got the referendum that he wanted and got to ask the question that he wanted and got a rebuttal that he didn't want. He even got the prospect of a simple 50% majority which is ridiculous for a major constitutional change of this nature.

They like tripe up north, I'm led to believe.

A vow or promise can't be kept within hours so it can't be broken within the same timescale. All sorts of people are reading all sorts of things into the vote but it was a very basic binary vote yes/no and nothing further can be deduced from it.

You must be Irene's dad Sorry, can't help personally but I'll try and ask round when I can.

Thanks, very interesting. It's nice to have a balanced view from outside.

Fair enough, but I don't trust a word he utters so I'm not even sure what to make of his apology.

A Primary Teacher explains to her class that she is a Liverpool fan. She Asks her students to raise their hands if they too, are Liverpool fans. Everyone in the class raises their hand except one little girl. The teacher Looks at the girl with surprise and says, 'Mary, why didn't you raise your Hand?' 'Because I'm not a Liverpool fan,' she replied. The teacher, still shocked, asked, 'Well, if you are not an Liverpool fan, then who are you a fan of?' 'I am a Man Utd fan, and proud of it,' Mary replied. The teacher could not believe her ears. 'Mary, why, pray tell, are you a Man Utd fan?' 'Because my mum is a Man Utd fan, and my dad is a Man Utd fan, so I'm a Man Utd fan too!' 'Well,' said the teacher in an obviously annoyed tone, 'that is no reason for you to be a Man Utd fan. You don't have to be just like your parents all Of the time. What if your mum was a prostitute and your dad was a drug Addict, what would you be then?' 'Then,' Mary smiled, 'I'd be a Liverpool fan.'

Normally if he's a walking wounded then he would be accompanied by the physio in his journey round the pitch. The linesman (I still can't call them assistant refs) is perfectly capable of distinguishing between him and the players on the field. They have to do it all the time anyway, deciding who is interfering with play and who is inactive. In this case he would be easy to ignore.

You can't appeal a yellow card.

Anywhere's a long trek if Birmingham is stuck in the middle.

They're not allowed to warm up in their full kit but there's no argument that he should have walked around the pitch, the physio could have accompanied him. The problem was that the fourth official - who handles all substitutions - was on the other side and had already let Ryan enter the field of play. I just think that Targett's mind was elsewhere and before anybody could say anything he had seen his number and ran on automatically. He definitely delayed the restart of the game. He certainly didn't have the referee's permission to enter the field of play.