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If Rashford is played in the middle, surely the three up top becomes Sterling-Rashford-Sancho. Unless Grealish turns in a second half of a season on unprecedented levels, he’s not getting in the side.

Can’t see Grealish getting a game, nor Maddison. The Sterling-Kane-Rashford trio works very well and all three appear to have a decent understanding between themselves. Sancho will get in the squad, too. Think Maddison could well get in the squad, but can’t imagine he’ll get much game time.

Think we could be going into yet another tournament without our best player. Owen in 2000, Beckham in 2002, Rooney in 2006 and now potentially Kane in 2020.

I think you’re doing Kane a disservice by saying “we’ll be ok”. We’d not be the same side without Kane, we’d be without the 2018 World Cup Golden Ball winner, multiple Premier League Top Scorer and one of the best strikers on the planet.

You’d hope so. However, any delay to his recovery will then likely have a knock-on effect on his comeback and readiness to play for England.

Terrible news for Spurs and potentially for England, too.

Standard behaviour on the continent from Ultra groups.

Talk of a “daylight rule” being brought in. That’s complete bollocks, if it happens. If you’re offside, you’re offside, much like if the ball is 1mm over the line, it’s a goal.

The tabloids will be overjoyed at this. They’ve waited on Sterling slipping up for a while. Sad that we’re losing our best player but if there has been an issue, I’m glad it’s been stamped on immediately and punishment handed out.

Don’t you have embarrassing “I can’t be racist, I eat curry” or “I can’t be homophobic, I’ve watched Brokeback Mountain” type posts to make when people point out your racist and homophobic posts? Not upset at all but just don’t really like bigotry.

Not bothered in the slightest by politics and what goes on with these corrupt MP’s across the country but that “Workington Man” stuff has really got my back up. Tired stereotypes from privately schooled, silver spoon fed, Rugby Union playing posh country boys is despicable. It’s bordering on xenophobia, really. They wouldn’t say they needed to attract Asian corner shop, for example. Guy Fawkes was actually a visionary in hindsight.

He hasn’t actually apologised and too right, he shouldn’t. As I said at the time, don’t blame him at all for reacting. Fans shouldn’t think it’s only a one way thing, this abuse, and if players react, not to get on a high horse.

Watched Game Changers on Netflix. Definitely food for though there.

A bit more digging and he’s actually reffed at A-League level in Australia, but the fella’s name is Jarred Gillett, whose only reffed 9 professional games here. Scott Ledger, the VAR official for Watford v Bournemouth appears to have never actually refereed a game and has only ever been a linesman, from what I can see on the Internet.

Read that one VAR official this weekend was a bloke that’s never reffed a Premier League game but has only refereed NINE Football League games ever. That’s farcical.

Research is all well and good but until it’s actually live, you can’t really judge something. Were things this bad before? Yeah, but people just lost it that referee’s missed incidents, now they get to lose it that a faceless bloke in a portacabin somewhere has or hasn’t given a penalty.

This. The humans behind it are the problem, the technology isn’t a problem. Even down to the “no goal” thing at Spurs the other week, it just reeks of people who are struggling massively with the technology.

There’s literally nothing in my post that’s incorrect. It’s been in place and live three months in the Premier League and nowhere did I suggest they made things up as recently as three months ago.

The way people talk up VAR as if it’s some computer programme rather than it being operated by a human being is comical. “VAR is a joke” and hilarious shouts like that make my weekend. If the officials running VAR for a particular game are underperforming, much like a referee, drop them but educate them while they’re absent from officiating a game via VAR, this is a new tool that’s been in place less than three months.

What do you get for the privilege of buying a membership for a club?

I thought it was strange initially that the driver was named and his picture shown but I’ve since learnt the container was registered in Romania/Bulgaria and was registered to a woman with an Irish address. That’s very fishy. I get why he’s stopped. It’s 1.30am and he’d have to stick to his tacograph but why would you open the carriage?

Anyone used Twickets?

Lovely. Huge respect for Haringey Borough in all of this. Did the correct thing and should be applauded for doing so.

Haringey Borough players have walked off the pitch after bottles were thrown and racial abuse was heard aimed towards Haringey’s keeper.

All the best mate. Health and well-being is more important than a bit of paper with a qualification on.