Interesting analysis. I note Bresciano's goal v Uruguay in Nov 2005 was an accidental ground ball in the box after Harry's airswing. I note Dukes missed a penalty in that match also...

Are you Garang's agent? He's not quite there yet but clearly getting closer.

I don't disagree with that and would love to see him in the first team squad, but it's very unlikely without a massive injury crisis.

I think this is pretty far from reality (with respect). There are some very good players ahead of him and no-one on the NUFC forum is calling for him to be included. Also, NUFC are one of the richest clubs in the world. It's good they kept him inhouse this season to have a closer look and he's...

You're not a weirdo. Us wogball lovers back in the 80s and 90s were weirdos but we're all helping to drag football into the mainstream - no matter how often the media and game's administrators let us down.

I understand your position but I watch every game, if I'm home. I want the league to survive and prosper. I want the game to survive and prosper, including the new second tier and the eventual unification of the full pyramid. Part of the problem is the marketing and the visibility - many of...

It can certainly look like that... Aussie kids have so many choices on how to spend their leisure time plus there's a certain coolness in not appearing to try too hard. In contrast, for many of the countries in Asia, football is the way to a better life and players are desperate to succeed...

Is there footage of this? The only highlights I've seen showed no penalty.

It'd be amazing to win both the U20 and U17 Asian Cups in the same year. It would be a powerful indicator that we are doing something right.

Benfica B must have some outstanding players because Okon-E is very good indeed.

Just like Hitler at the 36 Olympics...

Having said that ... I did wonder about the Mariners on the weekend. When the last subs came on I said to my mate: isn't that six subs? We can't do six, can we?

I wasn't talking about the people - Americans tend to be uniformly nice and polite, until you ask about guns or their medical system.

Not so sure. I read a report today of people being refused entry to the US if they had words critical of Trump stored on their phones. Clamping down on freedom of speech is how it starts - and they are so ideologically batshit these days that I doubt something so unAmerican as football will...

In contrast, my Lawrie McKinna book is probably the only football bio with a sex scene. I remember Lawrie's wife reading that chapter and saying: "Oh no... I can't let my father read this."

I also thought it was pretty boring - which is no reflection on the man, of course.

We're debating at cross purposes here. I said exactly that - Evans said there was no touch (which was clearly wrong). I continued to suggest that even if there had been a miniscule touch not affecting the trajectory of the ball that maybe a penalty was still the right call. That's what the...

That exactly what I said - the no touch comment was what he got wrong.

Yes, I noticed that, but there's also the new-ish rule (anywhere else on the park) that a tackle from behind is still a foul if it brings a player down and considered dangerous. Shawn Evans did himself no favours saying there was no touch on the ball as there clearly was. It makes him look even...

He didn't knock the ball away though. He got the tiniest nick and Arzani would've got to it if he hadn't been cut down. This might be a grey area for the law but a pen was the right result, I feel.