Bolton boss harbours no bad feelings towards Rob Styles

When Gary Megson’s described Rob Styles’ decision to point to the spot after Jlloyd Samuel’s impressive challenge on Cristiano Ronaldo as “hugely embarrassing”, there were few people who blamed him.

Yes, a big deal has been made of the FA’s Respect campaign but if you see your team’s chances of taking a priceless point at Old Trafford robbed by a ridiculously refereeing decision, nobody expects you to stay calm.

So it is somewhat surprising that the Bolton boss has today told his club’s website that after speaking to Rob Styles, he has forgiven him for his error, even going as far as to say that he would welcome the blundering official back to the Reebok:

“It’s gone now and we can’t do anything about it. It was an error and everybody knew it was an error, but

Another weekend, another handful of bogus penalties…

Another week of Premier League action has passed and once again it’s the officials who have been rattling football cages. Rob Styles, a smartly dressed ref, confused Jlloyd Samuel’s excellent tackle on Ronaldo with an uncoordinated lunge, and immediately pointed to the spot. Diarra handled the ball for Portsmouth and got away with it, and Steve Bennett awarded a perfectly decent penalty, albeit one involving the most elaborate Willem Defoe from Platoon impression The Spoiler has ever seen.

Everyone’s been yapping their disapproval, is it time we just said to hell with it and demanded video evidence? Bolton probably think so…

Manchester Utd gaffer is closet cinema expert

Should Dr Mark Kermode ever need someone to fill in for him as the BBC’s resident film buff, he should put in a quick call in to Old Trafford. For some reason, someone from The Sun asked Sir Alex about the 456th best film of 2008, Wanted, which he labelled as “diabolical” and “very disappointing”.

Moving on from his spot-on analysis of Angelina Jolie’s latest effort, he went on to call Gone With The Wind “epic and spectacular” and he also told us the third Godfather film wasn’t as good as the first two. Insightful stuff.

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Arsene Wenger, what the hell have you done to offend the gods of football? One of your best players gets his foot near amputated, Liverpool end your season in the most humiliating and soul-destroying fashion and now, when you really don’t have the appetite for it, you have to go and be “entertained” by Manchester United. Did you work as a consultant for that family who abducted their own daughter or something? You’d better start thinking quick, Mr Wenger or before long people are going to start feeling sorry for Arsenal. And from there you’re just a short step away from turning into Newcastle.

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* Don’t give up on Arsenal just yet: they have won the last six games that have followed their elimination from the Champions League, and they won at Old Trafford last year.

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The week after Chelsea lost Mourinho, they were charged with the task of getting a result at old Trafford in a televised game. Big Sam-less Newcastle now face exactly the same situation, but will they suffer the same