Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.

As long as there are games to play its not over

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

All they can talk about is Manchester United.