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Really don't give a shit what others think, it was better in the bad old days. We might have mighty athletes now, we might have stadiums more like palaces, but no one enjoys the game any more.

Attwell is grossly over-rated in the pantheon of referees. or else the rest aren't very good.

I think the choice of EPL or EFL is down to whether you can go to see Forest in the Prem. Personally I'm just glad to have a team to support and the result is all important. So riding high in the Championship trying to win the playoffs is, for me, acceptable. Then we win the promotion again and...

It's not that the refs are biased or corrupt, it's just that they are human and consciously or unconsciously they will have an inbuilt bias. We all do. How many times have you watched a match where you have no interest in either team, but before very long you hope one team will win? Also they...

Really good day on the allotment this morning. Sunshine, and, despite the weather people, I was sweating with the effort. I hope the lads are going to apply maximum effort on Sunday, too.

I honestly can't see us scoring enough goals to stay up. We have enough quality in the side to stay up, if we could convert the chances, but that will be our Achilles heel I fear.

Good old Pynchon. Even on here the ref takes the flak! It has forever been thus, though, even when I was a youngster, we were taking pot shots at the ref. An easy target, but in those days we just took it out on him because he was the one in control and the one with whom we could agree was...

BBC reports just call him Brereton.

Why aren't they calling him Brereton Diaz today?

300 decision in every game. 46 games in the football league and prem every week. How many ex refs do they have?

Idon't see why they need all the legal mumbo-jumbo to try and make the system work. just have it on an open basis. The ref runs the game on the field, but VAR can tell him at any time, if they think it necessary, of something they have spotted or something he appears to have get wrong. He can...

Three unexpected points. I need and deserve three points.

If you listen to Dermot, you understand why referee are in such a mess. The guy finds it almost impossible to make a decision.

Anybody ever seen a report on a ref after a game? Who acts as an assessor for the ref? Is it a narrative report or a tick check list? I understand the clubs are invited to comment on the refs performance, I suppose that is covered by a non-disclosure agreement? Why are we not told if a ref is...

Actually I feel quite energised this week. I think Tom is doing a great job, most fun I've had on the internet in some time.

If they want to improve VAR just ask any fan with a modicum of common sense. Don't ask a referee because that has obviously failed bigtime. Alternatively ask countries or sports where VAR (or it's cousins) works satisfactorily.

If I could work out how twitter (or X) works, I'd look it up.

I used to find that chaps who were very good at networking, carried their briefcase in a business like manner and used the correct lingo (like "ball park" and other like phrases) got promoted over workers who were better at their jobs, but didn't have that essential brown-nosing ability...

I don't doubt the sense of your reply. But considering we've just created a shitstorm about VAR, I don't think it answers my post at all.

Fortunately the colonial past is nothing to do with me. I always wonder why people in this day and age who work for the benefit of so many other nations should have to apologise for something that happened 200 years ago. It's stuff which gets done these days and the participants seem to think...