EVERYONE SAW THIS COMING-APART FROM THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE

SHOULD football look at its rules again over clear offsides? If the flag had been raised, as in the past, Taiwo Awoniyi's injury would not have happened.

- BY MIKE WALTERS

WE told them this would happen, but they wouldn't listen.

Players, managers, pundits, fans, the tea lady and the groundsman’s cat all warned that a player was going to be seriously injured one day because the linesman didn't immediately put his flag up for offside.

Now Taiwo Awoniyi is lying in an induced coma with a ruptured intestine, after his horrific collision with a post at the Trent end on Sunday, football's law-makers can admire their dirty work.