We all know that Southgate is going to 'fix' this by playing an extra DMC, right?

£18.5 million bid rejected. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68093730

I'd posit that City are now a bigger club than United. Depends how you measure it. United will have a bigger turnover, but City will win now more trophies for the foreseeable future. Personally, I think trophies are more important than turnover.

Last season Trafford played for Bolton. In their semi final with Accrington in the EFL cup, Trafford barrelled out of his area and completely went through a Stanley player, Liam Coyle. Never mind a free kick, booking or whatever, he should have been interviewed by the Police. Coyle sufferers facial fractures and was out for months. Trafford thinks he's above the law and that everything should be in his favour. Tiny little touch and he goes over, but as far as he's concerned he clutter everyone else. Disgraceful.

Is it a case that digital day has been scrapped because the fans have raised a digit? It really is digital day!

Whenever I mention this nobody seems to recall it, so I'm pleased that I didn't imagine it. I always thought Reid was hard, but fair. However, when someone crossed the line Reid wouldn't have it. Jones had proper kicked Reid a couple of times, so when Reid had the opportunity he put one on Jones. My recollection is that Jones was pointing and swearing to try to intimidate Reid, but Reid went for him. Jones proper backtracked. I always thought Andy Todd was a similar style hard man. Hard, but fair. If you crossed the line, though, he'd literally kick your the backside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRzk181_wd8

Yes, if there is something in issue that is beyond just that game then the game should be played fully. If it's a blanket directive then that removes the possibility of error in this regard. Really good point that I hadn't thought of. I still think a 'ball in play' clock is the best way to stop injury time-wasters. Difficult to implement going down the leagues, but each league would have to cut their cloth as best they could.

Real life situations are not always straightforward. If the score is 6-0 does every second really need to be played? The player leaving the field but was all a bit of a farce to start with (brought in for USA 94 ISTR). They'd didn't want players being treated on the pitch as it slowed the game down (which is a US gripe about football), so they had to leave the pitch for treatment. All sounds reasonable on paper. But, you don't know how injured the player is. It could be dangerous to move them. Treatment performed in the pitch anyway and turns out player is ok. They then have to perform the pointless pantomime of leaving the pitch and coming back on, which wasn't why the rule was brought in, but that seems to have been forgotten. To provide a scenario. Rovers player down injured after bad tackle from Burnley player. Burnley player booked. Rovers player has to stay off pitch for 30 seconds (ordinarily the ref can show a bit of common sense and wave him back on immediately, but not under the new rules). Burnley score whilst playing against the 10 men. How is that fair? Maybe change it so that player doesn't have to go off and/or stay off if he's been fouled? If this is a measure to stop time wasting, I favour a 'ball in play' clock. Sorry to jump in and waffle on, but you've stumbled on to a pet peeve of mine!

And this is the answer to the hypothetical question, I wonder what will be happening with Declan Rice in 2 to 3 seasons?

Rice will start as a defensive midfielder for a few months, but his minutes will slowly tail off and he will then be slotted in next to, or replacing, Kalvin Phillips.

I think England would have won a tournament by now had Big Sam stayed in charge.

Presumably they will do a deal. Agree a record fine of, say, £50 million. City hand over the money from loose change they've found down the back of the sofa.

I think there was a game where his distribution was unusually awfully and he came off at half time? Turned out he'd had a clash of heads and had double vision for the rest of the half, but didn't want to come off so hadn't told anyone.

I initially went Anthony Dobson? Who the hell is that? I then thought the only Dobson I remember is Tony Dobson, at which point my brain caught up.

Johnny Foreigner staying over there giving us their jobs...