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Hands above head, must be a penalty.... Chris Sutton slams the decision....

I would argue that this was one of the best decisions made this season. Both players were going for the ball, both had their hands up and looking at the photographs they look like a mirror image of each other! Were both trying to handle the ball? No, I believe that the defender's hand appears to be in a natural position as a result of jumping to head the ball (just like the attacker's) and therefore I cannot see how the handball was deliberate or that he could have moved his hands out of the way. Difficult to accept from a Leicester perspective but had a penalty and a second yellow been given the Arsenal would have had good cause to feel aggrieved. I wonder what Chris Kavanagh's reasoning was?
It also occurs to me that it must have been tempting for the assistant to call a penalty as all neutrals must have at first.
Otherwise I thought the referee was OK. It was one of those games where there were many similar petty offences and you have the perennial problem of differentiating the ones worthy of yellow and those not and the word inconsistent comes to mind but in these circumstances it is easy to hang that word around the referees neck when in fact players these days are too clever and cynical.