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I thought they checked Archer first because he was the scorer, then worked backward in time from that. Either way, that’s beside the point. Assuming you’re correct, all that means is that without VAR the goal still gets disallowed but for the wrong player being offside. How does that improve the situation?

How do you know that?

Decent performance overall, much better in the second half and the subs looked pretty good. Individual errors costing us another win though, Archer missing a sitter, Suga going to sleep for the first, Armstrong needlessly being offside for the disallowed goal. All things you don’t get away with at this level. Still, a decent away point. I’ll take that.

Our suspended players can have a cracking round of golf next weekend.

Okay, if you want the exact audio description it went between his trailing leg and his arse as he swung his boot at it. However you want to describe it, he was right in front of the goal and he tried to play the ball. He's interfering, he's offside, the goal was disallowed. The tater said the onfield decision was offside.

How can the cross going through the legs of a player five yards from goal NOT be interfering? The keeper has to position himself to cover the threat of Armstrong, thereby leaving the ar post exposed. If that goal gets given against Saints I guarantee this entire forum would be fuming.

With the keeper and defender's decision making. We might not like it but that was the right call. Armstrong went too far, too early.

Surely Armstrong is interfering there.

FFS, offside.

In the same way as sharting yourself at a funeral ‘changes things’, but yes.

Probably the same thing he did in training when he was scoring 4 in 30-something for Sheff Utd. You can’t just buy anyone and train them to be good, like in football manager. Downes not quite aggressive enough with that push, he could have been sent off by h.t. And beaten the traffic back down the A27.

And that’s what happens when you shop at Poundland in the Premier League. Archer just as guilty of costing us a goal as Suga, Downes and co have been in recent weeks. You can’t win games doing that at this level.

TBF the keeper was out of position, I think Downes was trying to catch him off his line.

Downes and KWP must really, really like the showers at the Amex.

KWP really going to town with the shirt pulling, another senseless booking.

Sugawara is the most brainless, gormless, clueless defender we’ve had since Olivier Bernard.

No worries, we’ll tell him to stand near Brighton's penalty spot, facing the goal and try to control it.

Christ, how long was Welbeck unmarked then?!

What a pointless yellow in the 11th minute, Welbeck was in his own half for crying out loud.

The fact that we’re talking about a man who, in half a season, has managed 0 goals, 2 assists, the mobility of a P&O ferry and can barely stay fit for half a game, just shows how pathetic the rest of our options are.

Russ on Sky confirming it is an injury for McC.

Can I just point out that losing Adam, "a top professional and great lad to have in the dressing room," Lallana doesn’t seem to have hampered Brighton in any way whatsoever, to the same extent it hasn’t helped us either. Perhaps we can finally put this myth to bed and stop coming up with such nonsense reasons for signing players.

Wasn’t McC playing with a slight knock last time? Perhaps he’s aggravated at some point in the last five days, hence Lumley.

Pleased to read this. A long way to go obviously but this is a bill which will help the most desparately suffering members of society.

It is that bad. Premier League teams have a Premier League team and Premier League players on the bench to change things if needed. We just about put out half a Premier League team, the rest is Championship level filler.