CRACKERS! No, I'm not making a list of things I need to get in for Christmas - I'm describing the sending off of Andy Todd at Ewood on Saturday.

I know people will say Mark Halsey was applying the letter of the law but that's, frankly, nonsense.

Excuse me, but I thought the law in this case stated it had to be a deliberate handball to prevent a goalscoring opportunity.

Well, the ball just popped up and hit Todd so there was no way he meant it.

And given that James Beattie was 30 yards away from goal and didn't really have full control, he was barely guaranteed a strike on goal, let alone a clear chance.

So apart from those two points, Halsey was spot on.

Seriously though, decisions like that are disasters for everyone. It kills the game, and as for all the fans who have paid all that money to be there - well, you may as well give them their money back and send them home.

Not that it's ever been any different.

I was watching Match Of the Day 2 on Sunday night and they were doing the top five worst decisions.

One of them was a shot from former Chelsea player Alan Hudson, which came against Ipswich when I was a young player there.

He hit into the side netting and it bounced away, but guess what? The referee gave a goal!

I didn't play in the game, but I remember when the senior players came back after that and they were absolutely seething about it.

Back then in the early 1970s you just had to live with it. These days, we have the capacity to use technology, so can anyone tell me whey we're not?

I know I'm banging the same old drum I was after Zurab Khizanishvili was sent off at Anfield, but I won't stop until this gets sorted out.

The way see it is this. Video technology would make the game fairer because those difficult decisions would be correct.

It would take away the enormous pressure referees are under in having to make instant judgements on things that might need a second look.

So why shouldn't we make the game fairer? That's what rules are there for, to make the game fairer, so if the powers that be aren't prepared to do that, what's the point in making rules in the first place?

And just let me quash another argument I hear when there's an injustice - that luck evens itself out over a season.

Number one, no it doesn;t.

And number two, referees' decisions shouldn't be based on luck.

Luck is what Peter Crouch got when he swung at the ball, it looped up and the keeper dropped in into the net.

In other words you should make your own luck. Referees should make the right decisions.