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It's been quoted a few times, but here's the relevant clause: "gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has: rebounded or been deflected off the goalpost, crossbar or an opponent" On the face of it, that does cover this. But I know longer no what's...

No, I don't think so. This is my gut instinct, it's a throw, only defenders touch the ball, thus it's onside. *But* the law states that a player who receives the ball in an offside position via a deflection off an opponent (which he did) is then offside. I no longer know if it's onside or...

He was raw but he was also obviously very high quality. The season after he played for us he was a regular in a side that dominated the division.

Hmm. I concede this. I think you're right, but it's a strange one if no attacking player has played the ball. You'd think the deflection clause is written with a deflection from an attacking pass in mind. Anyway, it's given, so all good for us.

Even if he's in an offside position, the ball's played to him by an opponent, not a team-mate, so he's not offside. No Oxford player touches the ball to make him offside.

In other news, I like Oxford's purple kit.

The Norwich defender heads it against his own man, sending it back towards the goalscorer. No Oxford player touches the ball from the throw but the scorer. A Norwich man plays it to him. It's onside.

Jake Findlay was just a thumbnail photo in the programme to me.

Craic?

I think Wilson's a good back-up. I'd be happy for him to stay so long as we can ditch Collins. Who's taking him, though?

Even when it was going well for him, he never looked convincing. I think I said this the other day, but he has a serious habit of parrying shots back into the danger zone. Sometimes that's all that's possible of course, but with Collins, it happens with more routine saves. It's as if he...

Did I dream it, or did we once make pop singer Sonia cry during a half-time performance?

Could Lionel Messi do it on a wet and windy night in Morecambe? Yes, yes he could. There might be some dross there (MLS, not Morecambe), but I think there are a lot of good developing South and Central American talents there, too. Not surprising really that good young players from the...

So you're saying that not only should two clubs from a different country's league be accepted into English football, despite having no more affiliation to it than (for example) Dinamo Minsk or Santos, that they should also be fast-tracked to its highest division? Even taking a neutral stance on...

The Welsh clubs have been integrated in the English football pyramid for as long as they've existed, so it's not a fair comparison.

It wouldn't actually be Celtic that would worry me. It would be the reaction of the'England-for-the-English' knuckle draggers and their 'no-surrendering' dribbling shite. People haven't moved on as far as you think.

That it's nothing but a bloated parody of what it once was.

World Cup's dead now anyway. Just a bloated propaganda tool for the world's worst regimes. Infantino is the useful idiot's useful idiot. And I thought I hated Blatter.

It's clearly an ironic response to a silly comment about how people don't know enough about Sisu to judge them. Anyone with even a cursory interest in the Football League know that SISU were a complete disaster that almost drove us into the ground, whilst simultaneously losing all chance of...

This is absolutely true. He should have had a hatful of goals.