Early this week, the last straw was a bad call by a replacement referee that gave the win to the Green Bay Packers over the Seattle Seahawks.

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Transformers Director Michael Bay then became one of the Bad Boys by dropping a Pearl Harbor-sized bomb on Paramount regarding its decision in a blog post since deleted and retracted, leading to speculation it was really the Decepticon version of Michael Bay that made the original posting.

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Bruckheimer offered Bay his first directing job in 1994 on Bad Boys, a movie about two Miami cops chasing drug thieves.

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Stuart Law (45) and Paul Horton (48) got Lancashire through to lunch but, with their side needing a win to keep Sussex and Durham at bay, had to bat on in bad light.

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In short compass, calls that ranged from merely bad to utterly indefensible cost the Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, respectively, a possibility of winning, a strong likelihood of winning and a game that was actually won.

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