Trying times
Yet again, a match ruined (all things are ruined when Australians win them) by a debate over video replay. When oh when will rugby learn from football and just not have any videos at all?
Self-assessment
“Anyone who knows Tim Sherwood knows he can handle pressure,” Tim Sherwood said. Anyone who knows Tim Sherwood knows Tim Sherwood is exactly the sort of man to refer to himself in the third person too.
Hard labour
Advertisement
Aaron Ramsey’s goal celebration — ball up the shirt (denoting pregnancy), thumb in the mouth (denoting baby) — left us slightly confused. Is he impersonating a mother or a child? Players really should think these things through.
Blunt instrument
“He’s not the sharpest tool in the box, and that’s not being disrespectful to him,” Tony Pulis said of James McClean. How the other tools in the box feel to be compared with the West Bromwich Albion midfielder remains unclear.