Lighthouse

The ref doesn’t even know basic laws of the game. Wonderful.

He went from impersonating Walcott to impersonating Bella-Kotchap.

He’d been asking to come off for over five minutes, no idea why it took so long to get Smallbone ready.

Time for some good old fashioned lucky muffins.

Nobody in the same postcode as KDH for that through-ball.

Full Walcott there from Rothwell.

With McC in goal we can’t build attacks from the back, the defenders are having to drop deeper to give him an option and Leicester are winning the space in front of them. Say what you like about his shot stopping, this is what we lose without Bazunu.

How do you manage to be offside there, you plank?

Statistically, the keeper is most likely to dive one way or another, so above waist height straight down the middle is the most likely place to go in. A miss is a miss, whether he puts it wide of the post or over the bar, it just looks worse.

Not sure how Brooks keeps starting ahead of Fraser. The latter is definitely better IMO.

I love how you’ll say that here but on the Israel thread ask why Egypt should take Palestinian refugees as it’s not their responsibility.

Rothwell has scored four very important goals since he’s been here. Alcaraz scored two, plus a third nothing goal in injury time against Blackburn. Alcaraz absolutely should not have been in the team every week, he gave the ball away a lot and didn’t look on the same wavelength as his teammates. Truth be told, he’s done very little since a very short flurry of goals when he first joined. Put it this way, if their names were José Rosario and Charlie Belmash, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

That would be the plan which worked brilliantly away to West Brom and Ipswich?

He hasn’t proven he’s a PL player, if he had we’d’ve been fighting off bids for him in the last two windows. He's mk.II Gaston Ramirez. He may well turn out class somewhere but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be in England.

Why is it pointless, getting a loan fee for a player who wasn’t doing much here? I just hope we get a decent fee for him in summer.

I can always trust her to be discreet.

Which is strange because many people seem to think a pretty close fourth place is some sort of unforgivable underperformance and that the manage should be sacked. If people didn’t like this season, I dread to think how they’ll react to becoming the next Swansea, Stoke or Cardiff.

Maybe 'whip' is in the wrong column for some of them.

Again, you’re falling under the assumption of the one screenshot being shown to the public being the only information the VAR looks at. If a player is offside in both frames either side of what is deemed to be contact with the ball, then he’s offside. You’re saying use VAR to correct clear and obvious errors, then you’re saying don’t draw the lines. That makes no sense, it was clearly and obviously offside - as per the current rules of the game - when the lines were drawn.

Wright was at least 20mm and everyone is complaining 🤷‍♂️

So how offside do you need to be in order to be offside? What's the exact distance, in your opinion.

Why not, I don't get your point? The people making the decisions have access to more information than the casual viewer on TV, plus the lines we see are drawn thick enough to be seen by everyone watching. The system is fine, it's the rule that needs changing. Have offside taken from the position of the players feet and add a 6 inch 'benefit of the doubt' zone. If you're 1mm beyond that you can have no complaints. Say what you want about this game, Coventry got a much fairer deal than we got in 2017 without VAR.

How many mm offside should count as offside, in your view?

Even if you chalk that one off, the ‘high’ we got from getting to the cup final included defeats against Swansea and West Ham.

The screen we see shows thicker lines than the ones used by the VAR, because they have to be visible to a TV audience. The actual lines drawn are probably much more clear cut than they appear to us.