Lol the irony! Time for that lie down puppy dog.

Ha, Blackwell was a brave boy. Where you reffing that one?

Go and have a lie down.

Ternent should have chinned him when he caught him listening in to his team talk!

Most of them are. They'll do and say what benefits them and the team they are paid shed loads to manage. There's not much integrity in football management it would seem.

That puts Lancashire United on the backburner for a while longer.

Equal lowest budget in the whole of the Football League apparently. They'll need those new fans.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/16129325.tempers-flare-among-fans-after-accrington-stanley-away-game/?ref=mrb&lp=4#gallery1 Chavvy little Mansfield scrotes with their faces covered waiting for Accy fans after the game. W anchors.

Thats the one I saw. Cracking goal weird celebration.

Only noticed him myself a week or two ago. Two crosses yesterday with his left peg and two goals. Always enjoyed watching him. Millwall going up would be a shot in the arm to the sanitised world of Prem football!

They'd have to massively cock it up now to miss out. 10 points clear in the automatics with a game or two in hand on the teams in the play-off positions. 2 or 3 wins from their last 8 games will probably do it. Fantastic job by Coleman.

McCarthy has done a great job at Ipswich on an absolute shoestring compared to other clubs. With no investment next season it may be a case of 'careful what you wish for' with the Ipswich fans. Coyle is free again.

Amen to that, brother.

It paid off if true. He got what he wanted in terms of retaining and signing players. Shrewd management.

He's looks a massive gimp on the pitch with his shyte goal celebrations. Goal celebrations are the true test of a mans character. Garner and Shearer - simple arm (s) in the air. Lingard - skipping round playing an imaginary flute. Tw@t

Lingard was terrific last night with his closing down.

Stones is a liability. We should have been 2 down in the first 10 minutes.

Ah, ok, well in answer to your question it's the rule about tripping. If someone stands on my trailing foot as I'm bursting into the box I can't move that leg forward and so I fall over. That's just the laws of physics. Penalty. Just because it doesn't specifically say 'stands on players foot' doesn't mean those rules don't cover it. Just as it doesn't say: 'player rounds keeper and keepers momentum clips players foot who may have already been falling due to trying to avoid keeper but there is still a slight contact which makes player naturally fall over. The keeper didn't intentionally bring him down and he was already falling but contact happened and caused the player to hit the deck' Those happen hundreds of times a season in the leagues and they all are penalties. The penalty yesterday happened in a meaningless friendly. Imagine the uproar if we get one given against us in the semi-final (I know, I know), or alternatively, if Maradona's 'hand of God' goal was chalked off in our favour. In theory it stops cheats and stops refs favouring 'bigger' teams. Unfortunately football is not a perfect world and some decisions are just not clear cut or open to interpretation no matter how many times they are watched, as the Italy goal shows and the rules you quote show. I personally think it's a horrible system which will take a lot of the spontaneity out of the game and ultimately make it far less interesting to watch. I'd certainly not bother watching live football anymore if VAR became the determining factor in how games unfolded. I like shit refs, I like human error from good refs, I like the emotion that comes from feeling the ref is against you and the way it gets the crowd going. Football has become sanitised to a point where I find Prem games a chore. No tackling, no needle, just 'athletes' screaming when anyone comes near them. VAR is just an extension of that. Give me League 1 any day, and I don't mean that in a way that tries to justify our fall from grace.

Why are you quoting laws on direct free kicks?

But in this case it does.

It doesn't matter if he was falling over or not if there is subsequent contact.

Still a penalty which was my only point. On the wider point i yhink it's a ludicrous system which has no place in football.

...but still a clear penalty. If that happens to Dack on Thursday and we don't get a pen there'd be uproar on here.

If someone is losing their balance in the box and 'already going down' and then gets taken out at waist height with a two-footed assault is that a penalty? Of course it is. Same if someone stands on your foot as you're running with the ball in the box. Clear penalty, even if it was 'soft'

Worked tonight. It was a clear penalty missed by the ref.