Three out of ten - must do better

Made a mistake...

...and finished the report I was writing with the Manure Sunderland game in the background, and called it a night at about nine o'clock. So I missed what must've been among the most hilarious penalty shoot-outs ever. It finished 2-1 to Sunderland, so between them, they managed to score three from ten, with seven missed or saved.

What You Tube is for. Moyes shouldn't put Wellbeck into the penalty taking lineup, because his first though on entering the area is to fall over, maybe Adnan Januzaj isn't he new messiah after all, Jones went for the Chris Waddle ball into orbit technique, he may have a future in pizza adverts. Raphael spends every game in the Dirk Kyut pose, arms outstretched, protesting furiously about anything and everything, so the fact that his attempt was saved can't possibly be his fault.

Stan Collymore

Wants Twitter to do more about abuse and death threats he's received.

There's no doubt that threatening to shoot someone on their doorstep is wrong. To do so just because he thinks you centre forward took a dive to win a penalty is wrong and absurd. Racial abuse, like any abuse, when it becomes cowardly and bullying, is wrong.

But a black mail letter is clearly wrong.

However, it isn't the Post Office that should be in the dock for delivering it. Or for being unable to trace the sender.

There's a trend to blame the Internet and ISP's and anyone who isn't really responsible. Politicians don't trust the Internet, because they can't control it, and they set the agenda of blame.

Don't blame Twitter, Stan. It's a police issue.

The police want water cannons

They want them because...

...and if you don't almost choke and spit out your tea at this, you're more cynical than me...

...because “as the austerity measures continue, there's an increased likelihood of protests”.

Free speech? The right to peaceful protest? Or raging assumptions and a police state? Predictably Boris Johnson and the right are all for it.

The Premier League are going after pubs showing games

An own goal. They're prosecuting pubs showing foreign feeds of Premiership games. So, instead of a social at the pub with the game, there'll be a social at someone's flat with the laptop plugged into the widescreen telly, with some supermarket lager.

Every season, the game streaming improves. Right now, if I'm not watching every Arsenal game with just the occasional stop / start and maybe one change of stream per game, I'm wondering if I'm in a pre-2010 timewarp. The Premiership needs to get real and accept the signs of the times.