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Such a lovely lad TAW have put up a podcast of his interview today - a good listen

From Rafa web.......I have just heard that Pepe Reina and his wife, Yolanda, are going to be parents once again and I would like to send them my warmest congratulations. Grecia, Alma and Luca will have to make space in their home for their new brother. Congratulations to them all.

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Referees need help... so now it's time to use a video jury to help serve justice By GRAHAM POLL The video evidence is clear; Manchester United striker Robin van Persie looks over his shoulder, sees Yohan Cabaye and swings an arm out to strike the Newcastle midfielder. The Dutchman's arm is raised and not moving in a natural arc for someone running. Here there is no ambiguity, unlike when a player is jumping for the ball. You can’t blame Howard Webb for missing the offence - it happened well away from the ball, at pace. Caught on camera: Robin van Persie appeared to strike Yohan Cabaye This clash was highlighted after the game by Newcastle boss Alan Pardew and then widely covered on TV. The incident was played out using excellent, zoomed-in, enhanced images that Webb, of course, cannot utilise during play. The FA allow the use of video evidence to determine if there should be a misconduct charge because the offence occurred out of view of the referee. But there is a clear flaw in their process. They ask the match-day referee to look at the incident and say whether he missed a red-card offence. In this case Webb, an excellent referee who had a red card overturned the week before, has said there was not one. It should not be up to him. In some way, by accepting you have missed a red card offence, you feel at fault. It’s far easier to say the incident is not 100 per cent clear and let sleeping dogs lie. And that is why I would like to see an independent panel, made up of a former player, manager and referee, review all such incidents in a consistent and impartial way. There is a degree of inconsistency on the field, as one referee’s opinion can vary from another’s. If all video reviews were conducted by the same three people, that inconsistency could be taken away. There was another incident which the panel could have reviewed from Sunday; the alleged stamp by Stoke’s Robert Huth on Liverpool striker Luis Suarez. Referee Lee Mason appears to think from the video evidence that the incident does not suggest a clear red-card offence. I would ask him to consider this: if a Stoke team-mate had been lying there, would Huth have trodden on him? Again don’t blame the ref, but don’t ask him to adjudicate on something which makes him feel to blame as he missed it. The benefit of a panel is they would not have the same fears of being compromised as some referees do if asked to review. There has been the belief that if you say a player should be charged with video evidence, then you will not be appointed to referee his team again in the near future. So the panel would offer complete impartiality, consistency and a solution to the issue of diving by reviewing all possible acts of simulation. Detection is very hard at full speed but with slow-motion pictures this act of cheating can be seen clearly. Then an appropriate retrospective punishment could be applied and we might see players stop this pathetic attempt to con referees. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2214760/Graham-Poll-Video-referees-necessity.html#ixzz28mb8wRBZ Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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And its 2 weeks of all this crap til the next game - ffs

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@TheRealAC3 Hahahahaa, well done #fa I lied did I, #BUNCHOFt***S

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Lucas looked a bit shocked when Brendan was telling the players to win the first Euro game for him after all the hard work he put in etc - was quite touching

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He has, and practically every other decision we arnt getting Contacted Mike Riley to express his concerns

Brendan is having a good moan about reffing decisions in the presser - good on him

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Right, the season starts now!

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Enrique and Carra on the left hand side were an accident waiting to happen but really pleased with how well we played over all

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Without stating the bleeding obvious but we need to start winning a few games first