A new proposal, two 30 minute halves, the clock stops every time the ball goes dead. Cracking good idea, kills time-wasting stone dead. Our game at Cardiff reached a new low apparently, Sky said the ball was in play for just 42 minutes and showed clips of Morrison interminably wiping the ball and shoving it up his shirt to dry it.

I thought it was typical of the dreadful state of refereeing that, despite Morrison taking up to 30 seconds to take throw-ins, the only player Atkinson gave a hurry up to at throw-ins was Lowton.