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Well I never. And there was me thinking that this was such an unlikely scenario for top-level football that it wasn't even worthy of serious contemplation. But yes, IT DID happen, 17 years ago, in some noddy São Paulo state cup competition played on a dust bowl front of 17 people and filmed on a...

No. I think it is ridiculous and unrealistic not to expect officials to make mistakes. If people accepted that mistakes happen then we wouldn’t have VAR. VAR has just compounded the whole situation. The Palace thing was a complete howler but it happens and it will happen again. I don’t know...

If your hypothetical scenarios now include a ball boy grabbing the ball and kicking it into the net and the ref awarding a goal it’s probably best we end the exchange here, to be honest.

Am I the only one who finds this viewpoint as ridiculous as it is unrealistic? Frankly, it’s this kind of pointless pursuit of perfection that has resulted in the introduction of VAR and the complete mess that top flight football is rapidly becoming.

Really? Completely unforgivable? Of course, we all have to set our own red lines in life; but the day I decide that a mistake made by an official in a football match is "completely unforgivable" is probably the day I'd realise that maybe football isn't for me.

I'm not blaming de Zerbi; I'm simply saying you can't look at mistakes made by officials but at the same time disregard those made by the players, on either side.

Yes, just like every other team. But somehow the officials are the only ones expected (by some) to be 100% infallible.

Was that also the game where Mac Allister missed about 3 absolute sitters and then Sanchez dropped a routine cross right onto Tompkin's boots? Perhaps this time de Zerbi will manage to pick a bunch of players who don't make a single mistake.