[Devongone]

At the risk of sounding like Miss Goody-Two-Shoes, surely one of the lessons of playing sport is to learn to take the rough with the smooth. If the referee is honest and makes his decisions to the best of his ability in an attempt to be fair to both teams then that is all we can, or even should, expect. There is nothing more certain than that the intense pressure of always being shown to be right will ensure that poor decisions are endemic. If we respected the ref', didn't question his every decision, and at the end of the game shook his hand and made it clear that without him there wouldn't have been a game at all I guarantee that his ability and that of his officials would improve exponentially. We get the refereeing we deserve. We all of us make it the way it is. And I'm guilty of it, too.

Where has our insistence that the decision has to be provably correct got us - to VAR that's where, and what is our reaction but to pillory the man interpreting VAR?

It sounds and looks as though our team last night did the right thing. Quite heroically they overcame misfortune. They didn't turn themselves into victims of cruel fate, they weren't rolling on the floor trying to convince a decent man they'd sustained a head injury, they scored two wonderful goals.

One lesson for us all - decisions can't always be right, but they can always be honest.