VectisSaint

I'd be unhappy, but not because of VAR, simply with officials being unable to make correct decisions, offside especially which should never be covered by VAR. WE didn't lose in 2017 because of that "howler", but the game may well have panned out differently without it.

Are you saying that with VAR no mistakes will be made? Completely ruins the game more often than not.

Pretty much spot on.

Lots on here clearly not watching the match, or at least seeing what they want to see. Just the finishing touch missing.

The bit that should be scrapped is offside. Offside was never meant to be objective down to the nearest millimetre, it was supposed to stop attackers gaining an unfair advantage by being noticeably (by a linesman) In front of the defender(s). Now players can be offside with their back to goal, absolute stupidity. Just leave it up to lineos to decide if a player is clearly in an offside position when the ball is played and is gaining an advantage. No need for lines to be drawn or to stop playing. OK, there will be some mistakes made, but nothing like as bad as the mistakes that are effectively being made by using a curate measurements to decide something that should have a subjective element.

So his comments don't make sense. If the family were in Southampton why would he have been away from them for the last 4 years? Southampton to Brighton is hardly the other side of the world. I have no idea where his family is, but I'm mystified by his comments.

Good luck to Paul Wotton, he will certainly need it with the Gulls who are in a whole heap of trouble financially.

He's 36 years old. The answer is NO. He has also made it clear he needs to be back with his family. I guess that means Liverpool way, not Southampton, otherwise why would he have been away from them for 4 years (not sure why he would have been away from them for 4 years anyway, seems odd).

I think you have highlighted exactly why he is considered a club legend, not forgetting that he was also a local lad.

Bayern Munich it is then

Armstrong, Stewart, Rothwell, KWP, Stephens

Flynn will do everything he can to stay at West Ham, he is a lifelong West Ham fan, and it was his dream move to go there. It was just that Moyes didn't fancy him (I know, he was signed under Moyes and given a 5 year contract with a one year option), but now he's gone (or going) everything is back on the table and I think it unlikely that he will be with us next season, though I do think we are second favourites. Really don't think he would look for a move elsewhere. Shame because he is a quality player and key to our success.

Jamie Carragher, Jamie Carragher, Jamie Carragher are definitely the worst three.

And the Final?

How do you know for sure that practicing helped him? Perhaps he would have scored them all anyway.

No. Extra time and then pens if needed.

Surprising given West Ham looks though they are going to appoint Lopetegui, would have thought Downes would fancy his chances at his club once Moyes is out of the way.

The Skates aren't the only team promoted from League One, could be Derby or whoever wins the play-off. Even if it was the Skates, it would be OK as long as we were promoted as well, preferably with us winning the League and them being beaten into second place.

Or even 8 conceded in the last 4 games. I am no fan of McCarthy but to be fair he hasn't done bad apart from Leicester, and I'm not sure you could blame him much for those goals. Can't see that Lumley would have done much better, but of course we'll never know.

Think you're confusing "Premier League quality" with "played (experienced) in the Premier League". Its clear Adams should have scored more, given how many sitters he has missed, but that's because he is not PL quality. Not so sure about Armstrong, although he too has had a plethora of good chances which he has not converted (but not shocking misses like Adams).

He is only just 16, playing for the u21s and giving them 5 years or more is a bit of an ask, especially for a CF. By the way how does it work that he also plays for Venezuela u17s and previously for Portugal u15s?

He played for the U18s against Brighton on Saturday and against Reading last week in the 9-0 win.

You should both try watching the 'highlights'. Bree was a couple of yards short of THB initially, when their forward moved it forward (to his right), Bree didn't move, as THB had clearly taken the initiative, they were a good 5 yards or more away from Bree when he put in the shot. As I said before you could fault Bree (as Franny said), but it certainly wasn't a case of defenders strolling back as Derry stated. Of course it was a full backs ball to deal with but we have hardly played with a traditional left back all season, one or other full backs always push up leaving 3 at the back, or even 2 quite often. Hence Manning is always out of position and is defensively hopeless. Yesterday it was Bree who I think is marginally better defensively, but in the system we play neither of them is expected to be a traditional full back and THB would have been expected to close this down, he tried but failed. Not saying I agree with this but this is how we play and how we have played nearly all season, to expect anything different on MD45 is naive.

They weren't "strolling" back, they (especially Stephens) were taking up positions appropriate for the threat which Harwood-Bellis looked to have covered, with McCarthy covering the post. The threat appeared to be a pull back to the penalty spot, but the Stoke player got passed THB (too easily) and put it in the net instead. It was a situation that most people would have expected THB to deal with reasonably easily. There is a good case that Bree could have done more to help THB as Franny highlighted in the commentary.