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A good answer to the question, but can anybody explain why all those variable additions seem to nearly always add up to four minutes..? I might run a stopwatch on the next live match I watch on TV and see just how every stoppage listed above tots up. I know.... it might seem a bit OCD, but...

Highly likely, Horns. But managers, fans and players are comfortable with being able to blame any failings in their team on the referee. Who needs fair decisions which might expose the shortcomings of your team when you can carry on scapegoating the match officials.? It's quite...

Wow..... I've really stirred up a hornets nest here. On the one hand that's not a bad thing because it shows that cages are being rattled. On the other hand, it's somewhat tiresome when that individual is probably a regular user, employing a hitherto dormant sock puppet account (see the...

I didn't watch the match but I have seen the goals. And what goals they were..!! Wow..!! Perhaps the only consolation Arsenal can take from this is that they don't have to face Manchester City again until next season. Scant consolation though. They have problems that need to be dealt...

Thank you for your infinitely better worded but still sadly missing the point reply. The point of Brexit Watch is to expose, or at the very least bring into the light of day, the ludicrous farce that is Brexit. It's got absolutely nothing to do with balance. It's about exposing Brexit for...

Say hello to Suzie. I hope she's just his type. Getting back on topic..... It's interesting that after Boris Johnson's poorly received Valentine's Day speech which offered ramblings about carrots, sophomoric jokes about dogging and sex tourism but very little actual Brexit content, you...

I think you're probably right, Salty. City are a pleasure to watch. But to see Arsenal capitulate as they did on Sunday was sad. I just hope they make City work a bit harder this time.....

I've been reading for a while about proposals that went around in the 1980's and 90's for an independent European Super League outside of the UEFA set up, whereby the rich and powerful would drop out of their domestic league and play in a "closed shop" without promotion or relegation. Of...

City were able to despatch Arsenal ridiculously easily in the League Cup Final on Sunday. I can't imagine Arsenal rolling over so tamely again. Surely they will come out fighting on Thursday.

I've just seen the Southampton goal on match of the day and am surprised at the criticism of the referee in the "part" he played in events. Bobby Madley seemed to me to be standing exactly where he should have been if he was working the refereeing diagonal which ensures him being in the best...

I've just had a rather <ahem> 'vigorous' exchange on a rugby site about Nigel Owens. I can understand disappointment at being beaten but don't blame the ref. For a start, blaming the ref is just not rugger and for another thing, we all know that if he'd been giving those calls against the...

I can't bring myself to criticise Nigel Owens who is by far the best referee in the world in my opinion. It's true his decisions affected the outcome of the game but he's there to make the tough calls and both of the disallowed tries can be supported by video replay. The Scots deserve their...

England have been a lot more solid in the second half and the first disallowed try was harsh although the second was quite correct. As I write, Underhill has just been yellow carded and Scotland have a penalty. It's almost impossible to see England getting back into this from 13 - 25. The...

It has to be said, the Scots have been superb in the first half. They're better organised, first to every breakdown, they're playing open rugby which is paying off and to be honest, England haven't been in the game. Agree all previous comments about Mike Brown. He's lost all his pace and...

He may. Then again, he may not. The tension is unbearable.

Rule number one for any sport: Nobody has an entitlement to win. Just because Tottenham have spent a lot of money on a stadium, acquired some good players and now have a coach with a bit of nous, none of those things guarantee honours / trophies overnight. In any season, there are only...

This site needs anybody to say anything on any subject just to keep it alive. As for talking to myself, well, since I last posted three others have obviously read what I write. I've even encouraged Fompous Part to make only his 10th post on this site in two and a half years...!! Wow...

Andrew Neil demolishes Tory party lies over Corbyn selling secrets to Communist regimes. Yet again, the Tories are caught with their pants on fire. https://politicalscrapbook.net/2018/02/andrew-neil-slams-tory-campaign-of-lies-and-disinformation-against-jeremy-corbyn/ The underlying shame of...

I'm a tad worried by this. The referee got his yellow card out.... .and it transpires that he had already written Delph's details on it, which indicates that his original intention was to issue a caution.... when he was surrounded by a mob of Wigan players demanding a red card which he...