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Exactly that. I don’t buy into corruption conspiracies. It’s unconscious bias. The flak they’ll get for changing the title race with a bad decision against a contender is off the scale. Miss a couple of Brighton penalties? The world just shrugs. It’d influence anyone. I believe that mentally the...

Yeah, but how did their European campaign go?

I miss the bit when the teams come out where the Albion players run into the centre circle and wave to the crowd. Maybe I imagined it. The First Division Goldstone days were a while back…

You shouldn’t stir rup rumours like that.

Definitely best not to speculate and very ill-advised of Sky to use a picture that could be misinterpreted.

Or Wembley. Deciding to maintain the nature of the place by retaining its shallow bowl was a monumental cock-up.

Lampard's 'goal' had people baying for goalline technology which has - with one exception - been a huge success, unlike VAR.

Mentioned this on another thread but I think Paolo Fonseca would be right up our street. Has a decent track record, good at developing talent and doesn't seem to have an issue with that. Came across superbly after Lille's defeat to Villa. Seemed very level-headed.

As someone who moved out of the centre of town to Patcham, no regrets. After looking around a lot, felt it offered great value simply because it has no cachet. Three regular bus services, a virtually flat cycle ride into town, enough shops/pubs/restaurants to feel like a community in its own...

That's because we're not going along to see one of the world's best teams. We're going along to watch the Albion. Money's tight, the match is on telly, most expect City to win at a canter. I don't think that's a problem with our club - it's a problem with football. The penny may drop when the...

Surely he'd be offering him a contract with Bayern Munich?

Good point. St George's day sounds like a great excuse for a few pints of Guinness and a curry. I'm in.

You will - but you wouldn't get goals ruled out for such ridiculously slim margins as we did yesterday. The attacker would definitely have been gaining an advantage even if there was a dispute over the last inch or two. If people still want to argue about that, let them. It doesn't really matter...

Simple explanation. You can't see Wan-Bissaka when the ball is kicked. By the time you can, he's run back into position.

You said 'If you know football you know it’s offside during the build up'. I wondered how you reached that conclusion. One that you could only reach if you were bang in line. As for 'adding horizontal lines' to consider how far apart the players are.... not seen anybody mention horizontal...

Not sure how you draw that conclusion. Were you the linesman and bang in line? The TV camera angle made it look slightly offside. The lines showed it was MUCH closer than even that seemed. As for the players not celebrating... players of a Championship club who've come from 3 goals to down to...

To be decided and not easy - didn't say it was. Let's just propose without thinking much about it at all, 30cm from the second last defender. You're right, people will still moan because that's what people do. The difference is that they'd be arguing about a player being 30cm PLUS a toenail...

Sorry but this conspiracy is a sideshow. The ref was decent. If it was bias, why did they give Coventry a marginal stoppage time penalty? The VAR could have overturned that if he was pro-United. If the line was wrong, it’s a mistake. I suspect it wasn’t anyway. They use a much finer line to make...

I’m with you. Even if the tech was infallible, ruling out goals for a margin that small is not what offside is about. People moaning about the officials etc .. I’ve got no issue with anything they did. It’s missing the massive point that it’s ridiculous to ‘flag’ someone for being an inch ahead...

Bamba was standing about 3 yards offside. So far off that the commentator even mentioned it as the ball was crossed in! Very different. Nobody would have a problem seeing those ruled out.