Whitey Grandad

To be honest, I hadn't noticed. Now that you have, I shall imagine them both living on a tropical island wetting all the palm trees.

Ooh, that was embarrassing. He got there too soon and planted both feet hoping that the keeper would clear him out. Unfortunately the keeper didn't oblige.

I've just tried it several times with headphones and there's absolutely nothing, not even the noise that I hear at around 7 secs through the loudspeaker. It seems to me to be an artefact of the codec. Spooky!

Distempered?

Nope, there's some sort of noise at 7 seconds but nothing at 12?

Premiership maybe, but how about the Champions' League?

What time is that?

There's some sort of noise but it's not the ref's whistle.You can hear that later and it's quite different. Whatever anybody may think of Walton, he's experienced enough not to blow his whistle whilst walking to his position with his back to the action.

Well, he was walking away from the penalty spot with his back to goal and didn't raise his hands to his mouth, from what I recall. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?33946-Lamberts-2nd-and-3rd-penalties

Thanks for sharing that with us. There's no whistle there.

There's something in this argument. Like everybody else, all I saw was Fonte outside the area but having watched the replay several times you can see that the defender pulls Fonte's arm and ends up inside the area whilst still pulling it. The linesman flags for the foul but not for a penalty so it was Walton's decision. Even after meeting for a discussion he sticks to that decision. The handball was not intentional, the shirt tugging was six of one etc. Hammond's dive was embarrassing, Rickie made the most of the trip (or attempted trip) for the second penalty but you couldn't say that it was wrong. The mugging at the far post is harder to forgive. In the end our pressure told and Brighton cracked.

He didn't blow his whistle for the second penalty.

It's for those watching in black and white.

I never heard a whistle?

Blatant dive. He was down before the keeper got there and tucked both legs up like a pancaking aircraft.

It was at Asda today, as promised, and people were queuing up to see it. Haven't they seen a lorry before? The bus driver said that it had been causing traffic problems all afternoon.

My wife's aunt always used to give me sugared almonds for Christmas and I, of course, feigned delight. Many years later my son came back from holiday and presented me with a box of them because he thought really liked them. Sometimes you have to suffer to be nice.

Oops, let's hope they don't beat us 25-0 at their place. They'd never let us forget it.

I long for the day when the colour of a person's skin is no more important than the colour of their hair or the colour of their eyes. BBC radio are just as bad at discrimination. Even if a black person is on the radio speaking with an English accent they always have to bring up the subject of the person's skin, something that the listener can't see and doesn't need to know about. Off course black footballers', black musicians', black whatevers' awards are a bad idea, they differentiate and they promote discrimination.

It looked full to me, although there were plenty of empty season ticket seats mid-Kingsland.

Couldn't quite break them down first half but I always felt that Brighton were playing flat out whereas we still had a couple of gears left. I don't know where you all saw the first half penalties because there was nothing seriously wrong with any of his decisions, unless you're biased. Second half, our first penalty must have been a foul because the lino gave it as well but he didn't put his flag across his chest and Walton never gave him the chance. It might have been on the edge of the penalty area but I'd like to see it again. The second looked like a clear trip to me, but I was 100 yards away. Kelvin never had a shot to save and Brighton looked what they are, a mid-table team.

Can't complain really. I don't think he got much wrong. Taricco was in his face all the game and must have said something nasty to have been sent off. I couldn't hear what he said from my seat in the Kingsland.

Let's face it, our run of results in the second half of last season (as was Huddersfield's) was unprecedented for Saints' fans, but who's complaining?

I will almost certainly have an empty season ticket seat next to me if you still need one.

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