Whenever I watch the Newcastle United matches on TV, if Mrs Lass is in the room I invariably pass on nuggets of vitally important information to her – some of which she occasionally listens to! Recent topics of note have highlighted how poor the referee is (a standard one, that), how much I hate cheats (even if they’re OUR cheats) and how poetic it is to see Manure/Liverpool/Arsenal suffer any sort of VAR injustice. Increasingly of late, though, I’ve found myself repeatedly bewailing the fact th
