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Exactly this. Have offside decided by feet position only, and give the Video Assistant Ref (it's not a machine!) 30 seconds to make a judgement. Occasionally he'll make a mistake (by millimetres), but so what? Better then a plethora of on-field ref's centimetre or metre mistakes in the past. I don't understand why people whine about minuscule mistakes and think we should go back to the old huge ones. VAR has a better view than the on field ref. No-one (apart from Whitey Grandad) can argue about that. The only legitimate complaint is if it takes too long (like the farce in the Women's WC). Thankfully the PL hasn't made that mistake. As I said, give VAR 30 seconds max to rule on offside or overturn any other decision, otherwise it stands. Simples.

Yes, he'll get at least one. You can bet your house on it. Glasgow, take note.

Whether you believe or not the biblical stories about him, there's little doubt among scholars that he existed as a person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#Historical_existence

In a word, yes. Much better than going down because a Watford player punches an equaliser into the net with his hand. VAR may not be perfect, but it's much less likely to make a mistake, and if it does it'll be by millimeters, not centimeters or meters by incompetent on field refs. Someone suggested having offside decided by feet only. Good idea. On top of that, then let VAR have 30 seconds max to decide if his feet are offside. If VAR can't decide by then the goal stands. Problem solved.

He had a history of being crap. As they say, a donkey doesn't change his eeyore. OTOH Adam's is young and at least has potential. The jury is still out.

!raeY weN yppaH dna samtsirhC yrreM

Good shout. Hope not though, that'll be them safe and one less team to help us finish above the dreaded 18th.

I doubt someone who said "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me" advocated beating slaves. Unless he was a masochist. I'm no scripture expert and don't want to get into a boring discussion about true meanings, but I presume such passages were some sort of parable, lost in translation over the centuries, or just made up by the sheep herder who wrote it. So you're agnostic. Got it. Nothing wrong with that.

Villa and Norwich look like good candidates. But with Nasty Nige at the helm and Deeney now fit Watford are starting to look like the team of last season. So it looks like us, them, Hammers, Bompey, BHA, Burnley and Newcastle are going to have a huge dogfight to avoid the third spot. Annoying that Sheff. Utd. are playing out of their skins and look out of it. Credit to their manager for making a silk purse out of a pig's ear.

The words of Jesus are a fantastic guide on how to live one's life, even if you don't believe it's historically accurate. The rest of the bible is basically a lot of bollocks written by sheep herders, with some wise words and some interesting history in between. I find it amusing that atheists point out absurdities in the bible to prove that God doesn't exist, and that believers do the same to prove God does exist. Agnostics are the only ones being logical.

If one of our defenders had made that mistake he'd be crucified here.

Don't understand the criticism of Boufal. He's done ok, and made some very good runs at the Palace defense.

So same odds as a game of Russian roulette. Which is appropriate because if we go down we're ****ed.

Given that Liverpool are going to win the league anyway, part of me wanted Leicester to lose 9-0.

All the players get 10/10 from me. Except Armstrong, who gets 11/10. Outstanding display.

I think we at Saintsweb should all get together for a nice drink to celebrate Christmas.

Sorry Cascarino, the people running the club may be stupid but even they are not completely mad enough to sell someone who gives us a chance of staying up. Talking about trying to stay up, has anyone mentioned that if Ings gets injured we're ****ed?

Absolutely. In particular avoid like the plague table legs and large bottles of salad cream.

Nasty Nige is an underrated manager. It was bad news for us and the other relegation candidates that Watford sacked a crap manager and appointed him.

If Ings is rested I'd have Redmond instead of Long or Adams there. Agreed Romeu definitely should start in front of the back 4. But unfortunately RH will probably pick PEH again. P.S. For those who say our attack is fine, why buy a striker, apart from Ings who do we have up front who can actually score goals?

As they say, when the wolf is chasing you, you don't have to out run it, you just have to out run the 3 slowest fat kids.

With 3 more today, this now makes it that the last 16 goals scored by Saints in the PL have been by English players. This beats the previous streak (also by Saints). Not sure if it's a record.

I think it was salad cream. Probably Heinz.

Can we play away from home every week?

3 more goals and we'll have a better goal difference than Villa.