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Then Old Trafford must have over 50 of them buried.

? If its a penalty it can't be a yellow in that circumstance.

Is that the one they made out of spare bits left over from the other kits?

A lot of this is a matter of opinion so what an ex-ref thinks does not really matter. Graham Poll is employed to give an insight into the thinking behind the decisions but at the end of the day it's the man in the middle who has to decide. We can't appeal to a higher authority if we don't like his decision nor put it to a vote. The guidelines for these sorts of incidents change all the time but as you say, I think most refs would have given it, or to put it another way, you'd need balls of steel not to.

All part of the problem, but the other team will always get a chance to put the ball across the box and you would expect you own players to be able to clear it cleanly, especially when they are not under any pressure. What you are saying is 'under no circumstances let them get a cross in anywhere near Danny Fox because he's as liable to kick it into our net as their's'

Cissé was offside when the ball was kicked, which is not an offence by itself, but a lot happens between him being offside and ending up kicking the ball. It's not an easy decision to call since at the time of the kick he's in another area of the pitch and then two players have tried to head the ball and missed. It's the sort of situation where the linesman normally flags some time after the kick and everybody wonders 'what the f....' and then the linesman makes that gesture with his free arm swinging from side to side to show that the player had come back from an offside position. Could have gone either way.

Why would a video ref be any different? In cases like this it's a matter of opinion. Don't call for another ref just because you don't like this one.

Never look back, as Mr. Lot said to his wife.

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Can't agree. For a professional player to be unable to use both feet is poor. If he had used his right foot then he could not have failed to see Jos standing right in his path and his body would have been facing the right direction. What he did was like trying to hoof the ball over his left shoulder without knowing who or what was in its path.

Wasn't there a penalty shout against Jos in the first half? Maybe that influenced the ref a little. It's obvious that the ball struck his arm rather than the other way around but if it were rugby you'd say that he charged down the cross.

The penalty was harsh but I suppose he was jumping to block the cross. As for the own goal, why the hell did he try to use his left foot to flick the ball away? It meant that he had no real control over where the ball went and ended up sideways on to the cross-shot. Any Premiership footballer should be able to use bot feet.

Terrible set of junctions combined with idiots driving way too fast. I have done that myself before and I feel sick about. My thoughts go out to her family. It's ever parent's nightmare.

We need him for Saturday.

Add up all that unemployment benefit and you won't have enough to pay for many houses. We need to make things to sell.

Ref had no choice.blame FIFA if you like but he was only doing as directed. If he hadn't he'd have had a bollicking.

He is what he is. It's not his fault that he's not very good.

Whichever way you look at it, letting in four goals is not going to get us anywhere.

We knew that last summer.

It takes large amounts of money out of the economy and all you get are a load of houses and a host of other associated problems. These houses all have to be heated, watered, drained, and connected to the transport system. The basic problem is that there are too many people in the country and the demand is steadily increasing. We need trade in order to pay our way and we can't export houses.

Girlfriend or burglar he definitely intended to kill somebody.

On one hand you advocate building houses and on the other complain about a property boom. Houses are the last place we should be putting what little money we have available for investment.

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Five Boys chocolate bar.

Your sense of smell, and therefore taste, changes at puberty so if you still like the same things it may mean that you haven't grown up.