We can’t keep letting inadequate officials make these cock-ups.

Hands up if what happened at West Ham yesterday came as a surprise to you. No. I didn’t think so. It’s been coming and our mediocre officials - no, inadequate officials - are to blame.

Let’s take this one step at a time. I agree with 100 per cent Peter Schmeichel. I saw him on Instagram. The call was wrong on so many levels.

Was it a foul? Yes, it probably was, but of course Chris Kavanagh wasn’t going to see it. He’s one of our worst and has had a season littered with errors.

Was it a ‘clear and obvious’ error? No, it wasn’t. Although I agree it probably (there’s that word again) was a foul, but if it was so damned obvious why didn’t take nearly five minutes to sort it out? What a shambles.

You can’t take Sunday’s decision in isolation. Again, I agree with Schmeichel - Arsenal are top, largely because they’ve been getting away with the sort of thing we saw at West Ham, all season.

I don’t blame them for that. Every team pushes the laws of the game to the limit to gain an advantage, so fair play to them. It’s the officials who’re to blame.

They’ve let too much go and we’ve got a scrum in the box now at every corner - and long throw-in. They should give penalties when they see holding - 3/4 a game if they have to. It’s the only way to stop it.

Did you see the incident at Sunderland when Luke Shaw got hold of Brian Brobbey? What didn’t Stuart Attwell and his VAR helper Peter Bankes not see? Shaw had hold of Brobbey from the moment the cross came in. He didn’t even look at the ball. It was as clear a pen as you’ll ever see, but the officials let it go unpunished. It’s nonsense.

I’ve mentioned this many times - do you remember when Mike Dean gave a pen at Stoke because Ryan Shawcross wasn’t looking at the ball at a corner? They was all. He  didn’t commit any other offence. 😂

A couple of other things - our guys simply aren’t good enough. And I’ll say again - we’ve got to be able to listen to those conversations at the monitor. Where is Howard Webb right now. MIA for sure.

Someone has got to get to grips with the appalling standards of refeeeing in the PL. Perhaps Richard Masters could earn some of that £1m bonus and take an interest?

I’m told the X-lino, Darren Cann, came up with a cunning plan to stop holding in the 6-yard box on the BBC. Darren was a brilliant lino, but he shouldn’t get involved in these matters. His idea is to clear the box entirely - not allow anyone in it. Brilliant Darren - so you just move the problems to the edge of the 6-yard box?

No. We have adequate laws already. Our officials have got to get better at applying them.

One last thing on this - Darren England, who was in VAR yesterday, takes charge of the Cup Final next weekend. I, for one, will be watching his performance very closely. The game is a tough gig anyway - he’s just gone and made it a whole lot harder for himself.

It’s exactly a month today (Monday) to the World Cup. I’m not going. I don’t want to go anywhere near America right now. I don’t believe it’s safe for travellers. How can it be when certainly it’s not safe for people who live there?

It’s a country where people ‘disappear’ - a lot of them to camps in contravention of human rights laws. And that’s if you’re lucky - US citizens can be shot on the streets by over zealous law enforcement and no-one is held responsible.

One major legal violation follows another. Three million of the Trump-Epstein files still haven’t been released, protecting sex traffickers and child rapists. I’m looking forward to Gary Lineker’s pre-tournament sermon this time around. How is he going to deal with the above?

Ticket prices are a scam. So are travel and hotel prices. Oh for a mini-tournament - which proved to be the best ever and delivered the best WC final ever.

Last week Infantino claimed tickets prices were ‘justified’ and FIFA have every right to take advantage of the system in America that allows for tickets to be sold for thousands of dollars above face value.

Did you see this? The Guardian reported one case where four tickets for the final have gone on sale for $2.3m each - £1.7m ffs. If someone was daft enough to buy them FIFA’s cut would be £508,000 each. Scandalous.

And this as viewers in China and India might not be able to watch the tournament because FIFA want £100m for the tv rights in those countries. There’s no deal right now. Infantino and FIFA are out of control.

A quick one on Jamie Vardy to end. I won’t be watching his mini-series, but I read in one episode he claims he wouldn’t go through the pain again of what it took to achieve the success he’s had. ‘I’ve got no regrets at all. But if you asked me to go and do it again, I wouldn’t’ says the multi-millionaire kid made good from Sheffield. Yes you would Jamie.