Micro chips, cameras or umpires!

BBC’s Match Of The Day fair spiked our interest with a breathless introduction to their highlights show last Tuesday night.

“We’re going to Old Trafford for the Manchester United-Spurs game first because of an extraordinary incident at the very end of the match,” they teased.

Well, that got us going, I can tell you. In a medium not entirely unaccustomed to hype - though most of it of extra-terrestrial origin, to be fair - we reckoned something truly mad must have happened to warrant such an excitable build-up on the part of prim old Auntie Beeb.