Lost for words...

DLL...

...is one incredibly courageous and wonderful kid.

We're probably neck and neck on the she wants to come home and I just want her home-ometer.

This is going to be rubbish from this point onwards because my mind and heart are elsewhere.

Man kicks ballboy

Eden Hazard tries to retrieve the ball. Does or does not clip the ballboy. A clip at worst. The ballboy, already wasting time to help his team, makes the most of it. Hazard gets sent off. Twitter goes mental. Opinions everywhere.

Broadly, there's the Jeremy Clarkson: what a bad example, etc, etc, bore drone.

There's the Pat Nevin: shouldn't do that, but the frustration's understandable.

Two points I've not seen or heard made are:

Every time any schoolboy, anywhere, sits down on a ball, one of his mates will gleefully put his hoof through the ball. No harm done.

If players trusted the officials to control time-wasting, then they wouldn't take the law into their own hands. Unfortunately, from ballboys (either on instruction: Stoke, Blackburn, Mark Hughes, Sam Alerdyce, I'm looking at you here) or on their own initiative taking an age getting the ball into play, to the long throw, towel, drawn-out affairs, officials fail, regularly, to add on enough time to adequately compensate for that wasted.

I like AD's suggestion. Waste thirty seconds, we'll add a minute on. A minute? That's plus two. That would instruct and equip referees to do something about it.

Mad Jens

I don't know if this is on You-Tube or anything. United, one-nil ahead, are taking an age over every goal kick, free kick, throw-in, whatever. Blatantly running down the clock as we push for an equaliser.

We equalise.

We go two-one up (I think).

Jens gets the ball then pretends to pull something getting back over the advertising hoarding, in the funniest bit of injury-feigning ever.

United players, bench, the lot all go ballistic, which is rich after their antics while they were ahead. Arsenal fans fall even more in love with the mad goalkeeper.