rallyboy

As well as the city businesses losing £13m today, the league situation is 'interesting'. Early suggestions are that only the top two will go up if the season can't be completed. With pompey two points short that would mean their haul of one point from the last two games has done enormous damage. Add in the loss of vital matchday income and things look a little bleak with a very long summer of wagebills ahead. I'm sure they've already forgotten all of those stupid points dropped against nine-man Coventry...etc.

Surely, if they scrap the season and the Premier League doesn't deliver the TV contracts, that would bankrupt us, and the majority of this division. So I suspect this season will conclude, by hook or by crook.

There will always be opinions, but referees must surely agree on whether a shoulder is handball or not, and whether to book or send off an attacker for diving, when a Liverpool defender fouls them in the box. There must be a vague level of consistency, we can't have twenty refs running their own interpretations on everything.

Massive investment promised, to be delivered with other people's money. Did Storrie and Redknapp do this budget?

You wouldn't send the players out individually without some strategy - surely the refs have training sessions and meet-ups where they agree a party line on interpreting and implementing laws? There seems to be no leadership.

All I ever ask of referees and VAR checks is consistency. I don't need to agree with them, I would just like to see the same rules being applied to both teams and in similar ways by all refs. Is that too much to ask?

In case anyone doesn't think VAR is broken, just remember the Burnley non-handball and compare it with Boufal's. And if you insist that both of those decisions were correct, other than the usual suspects who just do it for attention, I don't know where to start!

Stephen Graham as the angry care home manager challenging prejudice - Boris Johnson attempting to play the PM.

Looking at the replay you can see there was little intent, but he missed the ball, was over-committed and risked serious injury to the opponent. For me, sadly a red card, correctly ruled via VAR. So why on earth did they not even judge the similar situation on Bertrand? Their guy missed the ball, was over-committed and risked serious injury to the opponent. I'm not saying it was a definite red because there seems to be a media blackout on showing it and I'd like to see a replay, but why didn't they even look at it?

I haven't worn a mask to a game yet but on reflection I wish I'd worn a frigging blindfold to a few of them.

Plucky was the verdict. Of all grounds, this is the one Arsenal players fear. Rightly so. "Terrifying, beyond any atmosphere I've ever experienced, undoubtedly the most intimidating stadium there's ever been in world football", commented a random non-English speaking foreign player. Sold out boards went up at noon, the whistle went, but the score was irrelevant. Matchday was here, but it was a game only important to the opposition players and their bucket-list dreams. Years have gone, this cup was only a massive trophy up until exactly 2010. The league is the only cup now, it's best to be out of the old so-called FA Cup, and Jackett's heroes delivered in style. How Arsenal fans wish they were in League One, and despite early season efforts, it was their dream that died at the fortress.

Aintforever is correct - The country made a clear choice - to continue running the police and NHS as they are. #turkeys

This is all a bit like Man City making a big deal out of deciding who will go up to be presented with the Premier League trophy in May.

Rehabilitation needs to be improved right across the board for offenders of all types who will be released at some point. There is hardly any serious effort or funding being put into this at the moment, and it is very clear that we have no workable plan for tackling those who have been radicalised. The sooner our government ministers stop spouting that we are the best in the world at everything, the better. Let's listen for a change, in this case, to those countries who have had more success in these areas.

I think he was giving Kevin Friend marks out of ten.

How's the healing of the country going?

Hey Duckie, I missed him staring in that TV show - presumably they didn't give him a speaking part because every time he opens his mouth something frigging silly falls out. He must be really good at looking at stuff though, a rare talent, to add to that clumsy, ill-educated, misjudged kneejerk self-promoting Poundland Hopkins Toff character he does so well. And feel free to slag me off, you can even froth at the mouth a little and mutter Pinko if it cheers you up. Lovely as you are, and I know you are all good intentions at heart, I don't need your support because Lord T himself, caught between train delays, suggested only yesterday that I am sophisticated, and that is high praise which I have embraced - it will keep me cosy warm through the rest of winter. x

He's simply a bloke no one knew, trying to promote his new career by being controversial. It's a shallow PR campaign.

Thank god the talking is over, now it's time for action. When does the first £350m go into the NHS? That will make such a difference to people's lives, it was a brilliant promise.

Now, if a bloke dressed as an old woman had shouted that in a fake Irish accent on prime-time BBC, it would be hilarious!

Let's not deny democracy - our fellow citizens love Mrs Brown's Boys, they think it's hilarious, subtle, and awash with beautifully-crafted characters delivering complex scripts that work on several levels. And that tells you everything you need to know about the general public.

Boris makes up whatever suits his agenda on the day shock. Voters lap it up and point at other stuff to distract from the fact they've been conned. Again.

It was all very well organised, everyone was given a little plastic flag to hold, ready for waving when Nigel said. The flags were made in China, though someone had crossed out their name on the box and scrawled England. Then the rest of the gang came in, Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson, Rees-Mogg, the EDL, UKIP, Gove and the weird-looking King of the Poor from Wetherspoons, joking with the smug billionaire traders and newspaper owners standing quietly at the back. We all huddled together as one, me and my people, united in celebration, ready for the big moment. As we waited for a short millionaire to screech bong through a megaphone, I wondered how it came to this - shoulder-to-shoulder with the filthy-rich, and stood between Ann Widdecombe and Rupert Lowe, both of them frothing-at-the-mouth and jabbering uncontrollably about Pinkos, and the beautiful glory of war. I held my little flag tight and we all listened to Robinson as he persistently explained the Koran to everyone - he seems to know a lot more about Sharia law than he does about UK law. Hopkins grinned that mad starey-eyed false grin she does and hugged me, for a little bit too long - she thanked me, and a venture capitalist shook my hand, then wiped his on a handkerchief. So this is what everyone here had fought so hard for, yet in the cold light of this new dawn, looking at my people around me, I wondered how I ended up in this gang - and where they intended to take me next. Robinson continued to rant, the megaphone crackled into life, and we all held up our little flags awaiting further instruction... Mondeo Man 2020

That handball moment was what VAR was invented for - the opportunity to review in slow motion whether a player has moved his arm to prevent a goalscoring opportunity. Not to check it was beyond bonkers. The referees have fanatically clamped down on offside like it's a war crime, but have left everything else in an inconsistent mess - they even checked for offside when they were meant to be looking at the Delle foul. It's great technology but it's been given to simpletons to operate.

Where are all of these woke lefties? Are they the same people who are pinko, sandal-wearing, liberal-elite, vegan, Corbynista, tree-hugging, Londoncentric, remoaner snowflakes, or is that another big group that I've missed? And if there are so many of them, why did they all vote Tory last month? Our country is a mixed up place these days....in the olden days you used to know who was what, and why.