Ian - thank you for your kind words. In terms of the goalkeeping issue, in my eyes he should have been sent off as he was the last man for Kendal Town with a North Ferriby United player closing in on him.

Just a thought about the yellow card for the goalie handling outside the box; much depends on the context. It is a red card only if the ref judges that the goalie was deliberately denying a goal scoring opportunity, yellow in any other circumstances eg dives to collect the ball and momentum takes him and the ball out of the box.

Obviously I wasn’t there on this occasion, but I have seen players and fans foaming at the mouth thinking its an automatic red card offence more than once in recent years!

It does make you wonder if longer term the Premiership is going to be an invite only league - where promotion may not be enough to guarantee clubs a place on the toffs table - the followers of the egg shaped ball see this happening already and long established clubs pushed back down in favour of more media friendly places - professional sport or a step too far?

Indeed, further down the ladder or pyramid clus have to meet standards to gain admittance to the level above - so you can see it coming - “we don’t want that club in with us, they only draw crowds of 20,000 and the pennine winds are not to our players liking”.