The Warm-Up: Get out while you can Callum!

December 6, 2014 was one of those 'where were you when' moments. For that was the day an Arsenal fan uttered the immortal words:

Yup, after a chastening 3-2 defeat to Stoke, one Arsenal fan thought Joel Campbell deserved better. The only issue was that Campbell was bog average. Now, the same can't be said of Callum Hudson-Odoi. Speak to anyone with any sort of passable knowledge of youth team football and they will tell you the 18-year-old is quite the talent.

His fleeting appearances for Chelsea have confirmed as much. They have not been perfect but he has shown himself to be a player of considerable promise. And one worthy of a place in Chelsea's team. However, that won't happen. Empirical evidence shows that - Lewis Baker anyone? The best case scenario for a Chelsea prodigy is Ruben Loftus Cheek - a perennial substitute.

The England U19 international knows as much and has handed in a transfer request in an attempt to push through a move to Bayern Munich. It is absolutely the right decision and the Blues have no-one to blame but themselves.

The decision to sign Christian Pulisic all but made the decision for Hudson-Odoi. Chelsea stumped up £58 million for a player who had been reduced to the role of impact substitute by Hudson-Odoi's contemporary Jadon Sancho.

Hudson-Odoi, 18, is every bit as talented as Sancho yet is toiling on the bench for Chelsea while Sancho is tearing it up for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga and Champions League. Sometimes elite youth team players can't get into elite teams because they are stacked with elite players - see Gerard Pique at Manchester United.

However, Chelsea had a weakness in the wide forward position and instead of trusting their academy product, lumped in on Pulisic who can't guarantee a starting spot in the Dortmund team. Mad.

Speaking of madness, it would be mad for Hudson-Odoi to sign a contract extension. Mad.

Get out while you can Callum!

The merits of VAR remain up for debate. Fair enough, while it remains within a trial period in English football. However, it is being trialled in a farcical manner. Why on earth is it being used during some FA Cup games but not during others? It must be all or none..

VAR was an option to referee Craig Lawson during Manchester United's 3-1 victory over Arsenal on Friday; yet when it was needed - and badly needed - during Millwall's shock 3-2 win over Everton on Saturday it was unavailable.

Jake Cooper clearly handled the ball for Millwall's second goal. Clear as day. Yet the referee and the assistant missed it. Fair enough - that is what VAR is there for. Only VAR was not available for some reason. Some utterly ridiculous reason, The Warm-Up presumes. Perhaps there are not enough VAR qualified referees (otherwise known as referees capable of operating the rewind button on a TV) in the country to roll it out for every game of an FA Cup weekend.*

Compounding the farce, the person in charge of the jumbotron at the New Den elected to play the incident back just after the referee had conferred with their assistant and awarded the goal.

Neil Harris, the Millwall manager, was not happy at this intervention - reacting with the fear and rage of a man who had been duped into opening one of those innocuous-looking yet, erm, loud WhatsApp videos (come on now, you know the ones) on the packed 07:45 Southern service to Victoria.

Had VAR been in operation then that goal would not have stood and one of the shocks of the rounds might not have happened.

It should either be used or not. If it was unavailable at one game this weekend then it should have been unavailable at all.

*The official reason is it is only in use at Premier League grounds in the FA Cup this season

Marco Silva was, upon taking the Everton job over the summer, a young-looking 40-year-old. However, fast forward eight months and he is looking a very old 41.

That is some transformation.

However, Everton represents the impossible job at the moment - a club of deep historical significance who have spent fairly heavily. Expectations are skewed but, truth be told, the Toffees are toffee. They have spent heavily but have spent pretty horrendously.

A cursory glance at their record arrivals is fairly damning.

These are all recent acquisitions but Romelu Lukaku is, to The Warm-Up's mind, the only elite player in their top 10. Yet due to the money lobbed around, Silva is under serious pressure and it is beginning to tell.

They shouldn't lose to Millwall, of course, but their league position - 11th, two points off seventh - is par.

The Warm-Up is not the biggest fan of the muted celebration. However, each to their own, so, if Andros Townsend elects to partake in the celebration of a muted variety then fair play. The Warm-Up ain't going to call you out..

However, a Twitter user did just that on Sunday but there was nothing muted about Townsend's response. Pure fire.

Rascal tweet.

Two boats are set to resume the search for Emiliano Sala after £280,000 was raised via a crowd funding page.

There were donations large and small, with Kylian Mbappe said to have donated €30,000. They all made it possible.

The search may prove fruitless, but it is absolutely the right thing to do.

Millwall have a reputation as a club who like to indulge in the less palatable side of football fandom.

Namely, they have a reputation for fighting. And so when Everton met Millwall in the cup on Saturday, fans of both sides reportedly met up ahead of the game to have a fight.

Correct. Actual adults went out of their way to fight each other. Plums.

Seems pertinent, given the status of Calum Hudson-Odoi's transfer request, to tip The Warm-Up's bowler hat to, JJ Bull's article on Premier League club's attitude to youth player involvement.

United won again on Friday against Arsenal. The boy Ole is doing a fine job.

Here he is at the centre of one of the all-time great red cards.