Lighthouse

What!?!? A booster programme being brought out to coincide with literally that exact thing it was developed in anticipation of!? That’s too much of a coincidence for me. Have you ever noticed how in May/June every year supermarkets start selling sun cream and it mysteriously starts getting sunny outside? Those devious bastards at Nivea are controlling the weather and the brainwashed sheeple are to gullible to see what’s happening.

So where are you drawing the line, personally. If we score a goal, but it only crosses the line by an inch, it shouldn’t be given right? It’s only just crossed the line, so it’s a bit harsh to give that against the other team. VAR doesn’t make decisions, it’s just a piece of technology. The problem is it’s being used very badly and very slowly by the gimps in charge. The fact that a professional referee looked at the Onana foul against Wolves for about five minutes and decided no penalty is what is wrong with the game, not the actual technology.

It's a completely nonsense comparison and you know it. One is a sport in which two teams are competing, any unfair advantage you give one will impact the other directly. The other is a motoring offence, so I'll happily accept that I've broken the speed limit but driving at 31mph is an error any person could reasonably be expected to make, so no I wouldn't be fined. If there was a national 'driving just under 30mph' championship, I'd be willing to accept disqualification.

I don't believe footballers are given a fine for being an inch offside. If they are, I expect to see Walcott working in McDonald's in Totton fairly soon.

A rule is a rule, doesn’t matter if it’s an inch offside or a millimetre off the edge of a bat. I can honestly say I never stopped or changed the way I celebrated scoring goals (not that we’ve had many) since VAR came in.

I’m watching the cricket, two NZ batsmen have been wrongly given out on field by decisions which were then reviewed. No controversy, no bias, no injustice. People only talk about the decisions video referees get wrong. We’re far better off having it than not.

I distinctly remember ‘it’ happened during the rugby WC, as well as being on a Friday night in autumn.

This has to be the worst example, which still sticks in my mind eight years later. Let’s take a classic rugby WC hymn and get some random bloke to rap over it. Christ knows who signed off on this and why but it was horrendous.

Not really.

It's a risky game going after BMW and Mercedes. That's not going to fly with a certain subsection of Russian society.

Those three don't really fit into that category. They were relatively cheap, if not free and 'worth a punt' at the time. Dia may have been our worst ever player but he was also our cheapest; signed on a free on a one month deal, he probably cost the same as bringing in an extra dinner lady to cover the Xmas party. Forren was no different to Gazza or Mayuka that season really. We needed bodies for our PL squad, they were all worth a punt.

One of the more pathetic aspects of all of this is how most of the people bleating about impact on mental health, cancer patient referrals etc. were also the ones fighting tooth and nail against any and all Covid countermeasures they were asked/instructed to comply with. Not only do they have evidence that the vaccines are dangerous, lockdowns are against their human rights and social distancing doesn't work, they've also managed to disprove even the most basic hygene advice for any disease that a six year old would understand. The sheer audacity of being the ones to complain about something they were stubbornly trying to drag out as long as possible is quite astonishing. MLT is probably one of the more severe cases. If a doctor told him to wash his hands after using the lavatory, he'd probably sit there with fingers covered in poo, tweeting about how Bill Gates owns shares in Sanex. At least the Volvic Whisperer has a career of towering far post headers to blame it on, Tiss is just an absolute moon howler.

The thing about all this is that he doesn’t actually have opinions. What he has is a bog standard anti-opinion to pretty much everything. I could have told you his so called ‘opinion’ on 9/11 a couple of years ago, without him ever having to say, type or retweet a single word himself.

Delgado for £3.75m in 2001 would be about £25-30m in today’s money. Cant count him out.

Well, he’s cost us zero points so far this season. If we finish mid table then a lot more than just Baz will have gone wrong.

I don’t know, I’ve heard about a former Bristol Rovers player who reckons water becomes toxic if you say nasty things to it.

I’ll chuck an extra £20, a Curly Wurly and some old Pokémon cards into that wager. I can’t imagine Russel watched the Sunderland game and thought, “we really need to concede more goals.”

A top level keeper could have saved goals 3 and 5 at Sunderland but they weren’t exactly howlers which trickled between his legs. I would have reasonably expected him to save one of those two, so I guess you could say he held us back from the awe-inspiring 4-0 defeat we were capable of. Or you could say he robbed us of a 3-0 defeat, if you weirdly expect him to make no mistakes whilst those in front of him are dreadful. The defence was awful, the attackers didn’t trouble their goal and yet it seems to be Baz getting all the flack. It’s just weird, compared to someone like Alcaraz who’s been crap this season, as he was for many games last season, but gets off Scot-free and is hailed as being a class above.

Declared with a lead of 500 and a bit of loose change. Be good to nick a couple in the evening session.

He continues to be our number one because he is comfortably our best keeper and not the main reason we are conceding so many goals. As for not getting much worse, people said exactly the same about replacing Ralph with Jones. We also said the same about playing McC at the end of last season and he was worse, much worse.

Yep. That's what happens when you change it every game. Let's have six consecutive games of starting KWP, Jan, THB and Manning and see how Baz looks at the end of that.

The common denominator is, ironically, things being different every game.

McCarthy is worse than Bazunu, he came in at the end of last season and conceded 17 in 6 games. His distribution is terrible, puts the defence under pressure and he’s forced into saves Bazunu would never even have to attempt. We concede more goals with McC in goal but whoever we play there won’t stand a fair chance until we sort out the tombola defence in front of him.

Pardew’s team was bottom three at the start of October, even without the minus ten, then it all clicked. This is going to take time, judging our transfer business by results 15 hours after the window closes would be foolish.

I'm actually slightly disappointed that our official account has even bothered to acknowledge one of these tw*ttish, non-event twitter accounts, which are becoming irritatingly numerous. @footyinsider247 isn't an actual inside source of football knowledge? Well f**k me, next you'll be saying that 23 year old hot and horny Jessica from that pop up ad. isn't really 2 miles away and desparate to meet me.