So. It's 65 minutes into the game and you are still playing exactly the same cautious system against a team with ten men. Your left back has taken rather a nasty tumble and is hobbling a bit, but it's time to mix things up.

Do you bring on big money signing Valencia to replace the willing but tiring, seemingly 37 but actually only 30 year old, Cole? No. Do you bring on Zarate to replace either the largely anonymous Nolan or the relatively ineffective Vaz Te? No. A bit of Big Mo to offer some muscle in midfield? No.

What you actually do, and this is the daring bit, is you bring on a new right back back to replace the existing right back (who has played rather well and could replace Cresswell if his injury gets worse). Why do you do this? Because Demel is about 1% more effective going forward.

So that's it. Against ten men - Sam's idea of his first and crucial sub is to tinker a bit at right full-back. Even though it is idiotic to do so at the time.

Negative, negative, negative. I'm not asking for kamikaze, but surely a bit of derring-do is required against 10 men.

And I'm not really knocking Cole, Vaz Te, Nolan or Demel who were all OK.