Correct but they have to enforce the Laws of the Game. The VAR should have advised him on the correct restart having reviewed the incident. By the way I refereed around 1000 games of football over a 25 year period.

He blew when the ball was over the goal line. That's the reason he should have started with a corner. If the ball was still on the field of play when he blew then a drop ball is correct.

But the game is stopped so the ball is effectively dead as it was by the ball going over the goal line. Once this happens the handball in your scenario can't be penalised as the game us stopped.

He did but the ball was over the goal line when he did. VAR overruled him as no offence was seen. The restart should have been a corner.

If the ball had still been in play yes but it wasn't.

But there was no offence committed so as the ball was out of play a corner should have been the restart.

But the ball begin out of play overrides that as no offence has been committed. The referee didn't stop the game when the ball was in play, the ball was out of play so a corner was the correct restart.

You are correct. The game should have restarted with a Wednesday corner. If I had been the Wednesday skipper I would have insisted on a contested drop ball. It looked to me that the referee took it upon himself to drop the call to the Chelsea keeper.

I understand the PL Chairmen and Chief Execs wanted it that way. I was speaking to a friend who is in a senior position in refereeing and I said the on field referee might as well be redundant if the big decisions are taken away from him. Any game changing calls are out of their hands. It'll be money for old rope for them.

Next season when they have it in the Premier League all VAR referrals will be decided on by a referee sat in a warm studio at Stockley Park. There will be no viewing a monitor pitch side by the on field referee, he will be told what decision to give.

I just had a nightmarish flashback when I saw Agnes just then. Poor bloke looks like that tosspot K***.

In an ideal world yes but football has a reputation for disloyalty and greed. I'm not saying Rodwell will jump ship but you can bet your bottom dollar his representatives are putting his name out there. He will want some security in respect of a deal. I think Rovers are being slow off the mark by not yet speaking to him.

There is a stigma about long balls but many of ours from back to front are to Graham who not only retains possession but quite often brings others into play. I thought for 25 minutes yesterday our tempo was excellent, as good as I have seen. You don't have to have quick players to play that way but move the ball quickly and lots of running off the ball.

I said at the time that Rodwell was the lowest risk signing in recent years. The bad press he had from Sunderland was ridiculous because he wouldn't walk away from a lucrative contract which they were happy to give him. No pay off or deal, just walk away. My real fear now is that he is free to talk to other clubs as he is out of contract at the end of the season. Mowbray and Waggott should be speaking to him and his representatives this week with an offer on the table.

It's either personal Rev or you simply don't understand the game. Graham is fundamental to our play, he is the focal point of the team and brings other players into the game. He is a dying breed in the modern game where many managers prefer smaller, quicker players who run in behind. I would imagine most Rovers players would say he is our MVP (I don't like these Americanisms but that description is most apt).

The first 25 minutes were as enjoyable as anything I have seen watching Rovers for a long time. Intensive, incisive, hard working, quick and completely dominated. And for a change we scored whilst in the ascendancy to reflect our dominance. The pace dropped a little after that but the hard work continued and we were professional in our play. Lots of really good performances but for me young Travis was involved in nearly all the good play. His desire to get on the front foot has, for me been instrumental in our upturn in form. And significantly Evans is showing a rarely seen side to his game as he gets forward a lot more. Defensively sound once again and three clean sheets in a row in the league is something for us all to behold. As I was skimming through some earlier posts I couldn't believe the criticism of Danny Graham. He is so important to us and his hold up play is up there with the best. Anybody who can't see that clearly doesn't understand the game. Winning is undoubtedly the best feeling in football and hopefully we can keep this run going. Clean sheets is the way forward as I think we will always score in any game.

I was quoting somebody else hence the quotation marks. I personally would put his tenure into the good category.

Another tough match with Hull in really good form. I really think the key area will be wide as that is were their strength lies and is probably our weakness. I would play Nyambe at right back as I think he is best served to cope with he pacy Grosicki. On the left you could toss a coin to decide who is best equipped to cope with Bowen. Hopefully our big players are on form and get us the result.

Constructive criticism (that's mostly what I read about Mowbray) is completely different to moaning. I genuinely believe that the vast majority of fans appreciate that Mowbray has been 'very decent' but there have been failings too. His tactics, substitutions, team selection will always be open to criticism as we all pretty much see things differently and by his own admission he over thinks too much. Your description of average in the transfer market is about right with some really good incoming signings and some poor ones. He is worth his position at the moment but there will nearly always be perceived issues from fans. That goes with the territory of anybody in the public eye. And I'd be amazed if Mowbray wasn't critical of himself at times.

However, the Ewood boss hasn’t ruled out an extended stay for the utility man further down the line. “Jack Rodwell’s situation, I know his contract expires at the end of the season but I don’t sit here thinking ‘let’s go and offer him a 10-year deal’,” Mowbray said. “I have every respect for Jack, he works hard every day and listens, brings the right values and cultures to our football club. And I hope that at the right time he’s telling me that he’s enjoying it and wants to stay, and then we will talk about his situation. “At this moment, because he’s had one man of the match, he doesn’t just get a new five-year deal. I saw it as Mowbray sounding flippant making reference to a five year deal because he got man of the match. If I was Rodwell and saw the above I would question whether or not I would be better off elsewhere.

You could argue the same about Mulgrews injury record and Lenihan missed half of last season and several games this season as has Williams. I just think that we need to tie him down or potentially spend a lot of money to bring in a centre half not nearly as good. In all honesty the article comes across as flippant from Mowbray.

I am irked by Mowbray's comments about not offering Rodwell a new deal yet and he has 'laughed' off interest from Livorno. He is arguably our best centre half (and midfielder) and oozes class but the other three have all been given contract extensions with nothing for Rodwell yet. I'm afraid that Rodwell will start to look elsewhere and we will lose some real quality. Players like Rodwell on a free transfer don't come around too often.

Oh dear. Never mind, Sky will have him back as an 'expert' to go into their stable of failed managers or the ones that didn't have the bottle to at least try it. And on big bucks too.

Old news that Scott Wharton has joined Bury but he could make his debut on Saturday. By a strange quirk of fate the game is against Lincoln and it's on Sky at 5.30.

At Feyenoord we were kept back for ages. After about twenty minutes the Rovers players came out for a warm down. Tugay was soon lagging behind as they lapped the pitch and as they came round to where we were I noticed his headphones and he was listening to his iPod. I can't think of many players who have played for Hughes who could have got away with that. In a business where the word 'legend' is totally overused I can't think of any Rovers player more deserving.