Whitey Grandad

The worst possible result. Just a solid professional performance from Leeds and a woeful lack of effort by Saints. Can anybody please convince me that this result is good for the club in any way?

Didn't Blackpool rest their better players against us? What happened to them that season?

Poor strategy in my opinion. Any sort of win would do wonders for confidence but another loss will just confirm the losing habit. Our players get injured at Staplewood, the possibility of injury goes with the territory.

Sometimes I wonder: what is the point?

Sad that we don't have a flying example. About 40 years ago we visited the aircraft at Salisbury Hall and I climbed into the cockpit because you could at that time. My dad was an instrument technician on Mosquitoes during the war. He got a flight in one back from Scotland when my sister was taken ill. There was no navigator because he was in that seat so the pilot kept lowering his undercarriage and dropping out of the clouds to take a look and find out where he was. Why would he do that?

That goes beyond the instructions to referees which are that you have to be absolutely certain that no foul was committed. Don't forget that 'attempt to trip' is also a foul. Torres was actually kicked on the upper shin and although it might have looked much I have known a broken leg to happen from such a challenge.

You can't blame him for the offside goal but the rest was all down to him. The second booking for Torres was a ridiculous overreaction. We were always told that you had to be absolutely certain before issuing a caution for simulation. In the last couple of weeks all the refs seem to be given them out like pizza coupons. Perhaps it's because of all the media coverage about alleged diving? As for the suggested language, according to the Mail Mikel was having a rant at him along the lines of 'aren't we allowed to question your decisions?'. Well actually, no. I just think the pressure got too much for Clattenburg and his thought processes began to suffer.

2 points a game? There's no chance of that.

Are you talking about Fox or me? Fox is 26. I, however, am 63 but the clock is ticking.

I agree with you. Fox is not the greatest but he does seem to be left exposed at times and he usually has very little option to pass to in front of him.

So.... are boxes going empty because Cortese is picky about who occupies them?

For as long as I can remember the full back has taken the throw ins, it seems to be the law.

Davis would have been beaten at his near post. Defoe was always going to get to that ball first.

He didn't have to win the header, just put him off his timing. Any sort of challenge would have been better than nothing.

That's exactly what many around me were saying, only not as politely.

Don't hobbits have big feet, hands and things?

But how does he know he was 5mph over?

I agree. He did absolutely nothing to try to stop Bale getting his head on the ball. For all the good he did he might as well not have been there.

Clyde should have blocked him off.

Saw him in the concourse after the game getting mobbed. Seemed a bit embarrassed and pleased at the same time.

There are morons in the crowd too.

All the EU now change on the same dates.

If he threw the bottle into the crowd the it's a red card.

We should have kicked them off the pitch, we're far too nice.

Good, that'll teach 'em. I had a call at my business once saying that my business partner had asked him to call back again a few weeks later. I strung him along for a while and asked him several times if he was sure that J..... had asked him to call again and he insisted that he had. Eventually I had to tell him the sad truth that J..... had died more than two years before. He must have felt stupid.