We’re not Brasil we’re Tuaisceart Éireann

I’ve given you context for Hackett’s “thems the rules approach”, but he’s the expert you like, with the same opinion as yours. Referees can be wrong, we know that. We don’t have to agree with them. Ditto pundits on your side.

* yes, the refereee was overfussy (as they usually are at this level), and even by that standard eccentric. But I'd share the blame around, including to

* Lewis himself. When you've already had an early booking for a crude foul, don't fcuk about to risk another. We can't afford to lose players for daydreaming or gormlessness

* Baraclough. Don't send out a player completely lacking in form, confidence and match practice, don't gurn about teams needing to win not time-wasting when you clearly picked a side looking for 0-0 at best, and overall take the blame yourself

* Davis. As widely agreed he was warned earlier about time-wasting but clearly didn't stress it to the players. Of course this should have been done before the game, not halfway through it

* Gillespie. Yes, he's just a bland pundit but his habit of agreeing with whatever the previous speaker said is telling. So to the Five Live presenter, it was all 'the referee's a disgrace',  but on Radio Ulster he echoed Magilton  who made largely the same points as mine above 

Decisions like that are few and far between because most teams don't take time-wasting to the limits NI did, especially after being warned repeatedly about doing it. And especially not in the first half. If the shoe was on the other foot, we all know good and well that Baraclough would be using that as his excuse. Rather than his own lack of instructions - the same thing that reared its head when he brings on their youngest player who immediately flies into a tackle and gets a daft booking.

Have you played at a level similar to the one Hackett refereed at? He refereed at European Championships and refereed the biggest games in England, getting several extensions after reaching the mandatory retirement age, so satisfactory were his performances. Yet you're disregarding his opinion because of something that happened in one game.

It wasn't me who said that. 

The pot calls the kettle black.

I don't care enough to answer it. It wasn't me who made the comment and it has little to do with what I'm talking about so it's not really relevant to me.

It's rich that you're accusing me of saying and implying things about your character when you've repeatedly called me a bigot on this thread with little of substance to back it up.

You thrive on making incendiary comments and your mask has slipped plenty of times. I don't need to trawl through thousands of comments on my phone to show you up. You do a good job of doing that yourself.