Whitey Grandad

So obvious that VAR didn’t intervene. The officials have to be even handed.

Yes we do. Enjoy your day.

Quite correct. This is something that annoys a lot of people, especially when a player is shielding the ball as it goes out of play. However, shielding does not allow a player to block an opponent by sticking a leg across him.

Of course he had time, and plenty of it. He wasn’t between the defender and the ball, he was off to one side. That’s why he fell to his right as he stuck his left leg out in desperation. The defender fell on him because Stu tripped him. Anywhere else and Hungary get a free kick.

Now you’ve insulted me again. Have I ever insulted you? It appears that my conclusion is justified.

Your facts maybe, but not everybody’s.

Yeah, I wondered that. Seeing as how this is a UEFA contest anyway. I didn’t like Steve Clarke’s comment about him not even speaking english.

You really are naive. Why, in your opinion, did he stick his left leg out like that at an unnatural angle? Contact in itself doesn’t make any incident a foul. In this case the contact was caused by Stu sticking his leg across his opponent’s. An opponent who had every right to try and reach the ball.

You can’t shield a ball by trying to trip up a defender. The foul, if any, was the other way round.

Never a penalty. The attacker has a right to try and get his body between the defender and the ball but Stu didn’t do that. He stuck his left leg across at an awkward angle and understandably got caught by the defender’s knee. If he’d concentrated on trying to score instead of win a penalty then he’d have had a better chance. You could just as easily argue that it was a foul by Stu on the defender.

Stu only gets his leg knocked because he stuck it across there.

I blame the parents.

He banks (or used to) at Coutts. For that you needed to have an annual income of over £200,000.

Hmm, tough choice. It all depends on the weather I suppose.

Please don’t insult me. I’m old enough to spot a bullshitting conman when I see one.

Nobody’s going to bust a gut to get on the end of a cross that doesn’t come over. It’s not as if Sulemana looks up at any time. He just stops and waits.

Farage is rich.

It’s definitely a lot worse than it used to be. The television companies don’t help with their constant over-analysis of any refereeing decision.

Nothing irrational about it. The man’s all gob and full of shite.

I have suddenly arranged a trip away and won't be here for the vote and the hand-wringing so I have had to arrange a proxy vote for the first time.

He'd just need to open his mouth wide and it would fill the nets.

Yes, and with boots on.

He's not been interested all season. Oh. I see what you mean.

Puzzles, innit.

I prefer last season’s.