After tossing his toys out of the pram selling Stam he comes out with this after today's match. As quoted on Sporting Life. Oh my.

"Can someone with a stopwatch record the time of these games? People are getting robbed of their entertainment out there," he declared amid a splattering of swearwords.

"Four minutes? It's a bloody joke. Tell people where the game has gone wrong. Why has the referee got a stopwatch?

"How long should injury-time have been? Fourteen minutes at least.

"There were four injuries at least and there were four substitutions as well. Every time Peter Schmeichel took a free-kick, it took him a minute to get the ball."

Not content with that, he told Sky Sports: "We should have had another 20 minutes' play. We have full-time refs and then you have a performance like that."

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

Answers

He has a point here. There must have been 6 to 7 mins worth of injury time in total...easy!

Don't get a hard-on Annie Oakley!

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

LR Just curious...how long has it been since you were at a game with 7 minutes of injury time? -phoenix

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

I feel Schmeicel wasting time at goal kicks does have a certain irony in it.

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

Today. Six mins easy. Four was a piss take.

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

Rudolph was feckin' MASSIVE today. It was well feckin' strange watching him pull off three or so huge saves. Brilliant. Bastard!

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

You see, that's the problem with PPV. They have a schedule to keep to and Taggart lost out (heh heh). I'd have a word with Old Rupert Babes if I was Taggart. Surely he can pull a few strings next time to change the schedules.

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

LR, selling Stam (IMHO) principally (and on principle) for his outspoken words in his book, does not bode well for the team which "won't lose a game this season". I don't see whoever you buy (Laurent Blanc?) being able to shore up 'that' defence, certainly not in the short term.

The bubble is about to (finally) burst?

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001

Has it occured to whoever has control of the 1 manure brain stem that the ref might have used the stop watch for the injuries whatever and the extra time was just that?

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2001