Whitey Grandad

Because there's no need for it. It doesn't work for every decision made all over the pitch, and we don't know that the decisions are any more correct. I've also seen bad decisions made on the basis of slow-motion replays, England's disallowed try in the rugby World Cup final for one.

We would have blackouts if we relied on wind.

Congratulations to you all. We're waiting for number 7 grandchild, number 3 grandson, due in about 4 weeks. I don't think two season tickets are going to be enough.

I would refute that. Were any of these sports worse 30, 40, or 50 years ago? Just as exciting, just as historic. Does it make any difference if a human decides instead of a machine?

No, it would have to be outside the post so that the back edge of the near one is in line with the farther one and then you could see if the ball had completely crossed that plane.

They're lucky if they get one.

Mock-ups are a mockery. They can never say whether the ball was one inch over or one inch short of going in because the inaccuracies of such processes are probably at least half a ball diameter.

Because there would not be such technology on my local park.

And I strongly diagree with them. You cannot possibly base any decision upon any of the images that we have seen so far, all of them just fuzzy freeze-frames which have suffered mpeg encoding, and it doesn't help that the white ball is covered with black symbols. It is nowhere near as clear as Lampard's effort and as Lord Duckhunter points out, how many other decisions during that game are you going to review? The best view in the stadium was the bloke in the yellow shirt standing on the goal-line who was staring at the goal looking for just this sort of occasion. Even with a ball that is not moving there is always going to be a position where the decision as to whether it is over the line is a straight 50/50 choice. This is not an exact science and no amount of technology will ever make it so.

A brilliant comment and I would add one more point. It should be the same laws of the game at all levels.

He wasn't there, standing on the goal-line, looking across the back of the goal posts so how can he pass a comment?

It wasn't completely over the line! (stamps feet, tears hair out)

I can't understand all this rubbish. That ball had not completely crossed the line! There needs to be daylight between the back of the posts and the ball and there wasn't, therefore it wasn't a goal. The assistant got it spot on.

I read through all that noble stuff about Freiburg and when you get to the bottom: 'Solar PV and other renewables still only provide 2% of the power that Freiburg needs'

Is that 'dead' as in 'ain't coming back'?

No housing benefit in my day. No cars either, you had to make do with a bike.

That wasn't over the line. Another couple of inches and it might have been given.

Where's your ambition?

55:12 and 4.78 with Virgin media and a Macbook air over wireless and using speedtest. If you're using an older laptop wireless connection then that may be limiting you.

It's a very good question but I don't think we shall know the answer until well into the season by which time it could be too late. It's a very big jump for all concerned and I don't think there's much Premier League experience left at the club. Mind you, I thought we'd be doing well to consolidate in the Championship.

They swing in opposite directions, and a Griffon sounds gruffer.

No problem for me if I've copied it right.

There was an evening game at Chelsea that was called off at the last minute. I'd picked my daughter up from Reading, parked the car, bought the programme, we were just getting to our seats when the steward said "you can go in if you like but the game's been called off". I knew it would be, it had been lashing it down and thundering and lightning all the way, just like the match in Donetsk.

Quite right. Prawn sandwiches are much better.

I'm all for it. The more I travel in Europe the more I like what I see. Too many little englanders over here.