Howard Webb keping up with the Joneses!

It's beginning to look as if a new law has been introduced to the game without anybody telling us. Mr Jones spent the whole of the second half last week, apparently trying to redress his perceived error when not disallowing Piquionne's handball when scoring; and yesterday, after doubt over a late flag which ruled out a Blackpool goal, Webb seemed to seize the first opportunity to award the Tangerine Dreamers a penalty, even though nobody in the stadium was calling for a spot kick, not even Ollie!

You have to wonder if Holloway will now be on an FA charge for saying that Webb got it wrong when awarding his own team a penalty...and then going on to explain how the man who ruined a World Cup Final then made a whole series of mistakes in the run up to the Blackburn equaliser. Once again, we saw a referee, like Jones at Stoke, apparently refereeing on the basis of balancing out cock ups.

And yes, here it is! I've found the wording in the latest rule book for Association Football in England: "And lo, if He who wears black maketh himself look a total cnut, he shall, at every opportunity thereafter, do what evereth He can to confirm that impression. For in a game the rule must apply, "If once a cnut, always a cnut"!"