Kolo Toure is ignorant of the Laws of the Game, as it seems are many others. The referee only ever counts the players on the pitch at the start of each half to ensure that there are not more than eleven players on the field for each team. It has happened that more than eleven players attempt to start the game, usually because a substitute has been told he's coming on at the break but no one told the player who was destined to be substituted. If you don't have eleven players on the pitch at kick off time - then tough sh*it.

The referees give sufficient warning of the approaching kick off time and it is not their job to get all eleven players from each team onto the pitch for start of play. Entering the field of play once a game has started without the referee's permission is always a bookable offence and always has been, so he had no option other than booking Kolo. Larsen may have been a useless referee in that he failed to give Mexes a second yellow, failed to see Totti jumping into players, backing in or repeatedly fouling, failed to see Robin fouled in the box a second time, and waved it away when Ebooue was clearly hauled to the ground, could have given a red rather than a yellow for a two footed tackle on Nasri, but with regard to the booking of Toure he was spot on.

Had it been Almunia who failed to turn up for the second half then the game couldn't have restarted. That's because the minimum number of players for either side must always include a goalkeeper. I blame Kolo for this gross cock-up, I blame Arsenal's management, I blame Kolo's ignorance of the Laws. But at the end of the day the simple answer is that the keeper should always be our last player onto the pitch.

The Welsh referee (and total w**ker) Clive Thomas, a bigger ar*ehole than even Graham Poll (ask any Brazilian) once started a game at Highbury without Pat Jennings on the pitch. Needless to say he blamed everyone other than himself, but like I said that's because he was a total ar*e. But on Tuesday night so was Kolo - what a dumb booking.