Couple of notable things about last nights Everton / Villareal game. First, ITV2 screening this big tie seemed to have a bit of an aspect ration problem. At 4:3 the screen was taller than it was wide. At Widescreen it did not fill the screen. Therefore the match appeared to be taking place between two teams comprised of characters from Lowry paintings.
And talking of paintings, the walking representation of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, was refereeing. Apparently the Italian league have bent their age rules and extended Collina’s contract. David Moyes seems unhappy about this and even the commentators suggested that Collina had “Duncan Ferguson’s card marked”. This would be a terrible abuse of power, but hold up. If you were going to “mark the card”, and prejudge the motivations of hard to see challenges, then Duncan “I’ve spent a bit of time in chokey” Ferguson is exactly the kind of player you would pick. You can’t have a hard man reputation without the ref’s picking it up too…