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Swansea, especially their manager, very unhappy with Gillett over the red card shown towards the end of the first half. The Swansea manager was also cautioned towards the end for his protestations.

With no footage to hand as yet, it would be interesting to hear from our Fulham correspondents on the decision.

Once again Jarred Gillett was excellent, calm and almost anonymous overall.

From the live stream, I fully expected the yellow card for the challenge so was shocked to see the red appear, but from the replays and this picture from BBC, you cannot argue with a red card.  https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/8048/production/_123604823_shutterstock_editorial_12839076af.jpg (am I allowed to do that, apologies if I'm not)

Even the Swansea City TV commentators agreed that "you see these given".

Sorry take the jag but that picture doesn’t really show anything

Quote from: takethejag on Tue 08 Mar 2022 22:15

Once again Jarred Gillett was excellent, calm and almost anonymous overall.

From the live stream, I fully expected the yellow card for the challenge so was shocked to see the red appear, but from the replays and this picture from BBC, you cannot argue with a red card.  https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/8048/production/_123604823_shutterstock_editorial_12839076af.jpg (am I allowed to do that, apologies if I'm not)

Even the Swansea City TV commentators agreed that "you see these given".

Sorry take the jag but that picture doesn’t really show anything

Studs up off the ground? Isn't that enough

Quote from: UmpireIan49 on Tue 08 Mar 2022 21:53

Swansea, especially their manager, very unhappy with Gillett over the red card shown towards the end of the first half. The Swansea manager was also cautioned towards the end for his protestations.

With no footage to hand as yet, it would be interesting to hear from our Fulham correspondents on the decision.

I’ve not seen it as I was partaking of the Bournemouth game on the red button.

You just can't get enough of parkerball!

Quote from: takethejag on Tue 08 Mar 2022 22:21

Quote from: ajb95 on Tue 08 Mar 2022 22:17

Quote from: takethejag on Tue 08 Mar 2022 22:15

Once again Jarred Gillett was excellent, calm and almost anonymous overall.

From the live stream, I fully expected the yellow card for the challenge so was shocked to see the red appear, but from the replays and this picture from BBC, you cannot argue with a red card.  https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/8048/production/_123604823_shutterstock_editorial_12839076af.jpg (am I allowed to do that, apologies if I'm not)

Even the Swansea City TV commentators agreed that "you see these given".

Sorry take the jag but that picture doesn’t really show anything

Studs up off the ground? Isn't that enough

Doesn’t mean anything. I’ll make a judgement when I’ve seen the video highlights

Fair enough, I await your judgement once you've seen it (maybe this works? https://twitter.com/i/status/1501302114429005829

Just seen a replay at full speed and can understand why a red was given. It was high, with studs showing and it didn’t look good. Just my opinion! The one thing I will say is that Gillett was in a very good position about three or four yards away looking straight at it, and made a very quick decision as is his style, which I like.

Of course, if a decision goes against your side, the ref is either useless or a cheat, or both. I even read a Twitter comment advocating that the ref’s leg gets broken! Sadly this is the world we live in now where a guy gets a threat for doing his job.

For me, Gillett made a gutsy call and stuck with it. To the Swansea fans, tough cheese.

Gillett was absolutely fantastic yet again. He is a top level referee and should be getting the very best games in the Prem, he is undoubtedly that good.
That red for the Swansea player perhaps looked a tad harsh as it happened, not many expected a red, but Jarred showed all his ability and spotted it for what it was. Once you see the replay it is 100% a red. To give that decision against the home team in a hostile environment proved unequivocally that he has got balls and class. It would’ve been easy to shirk that decision, give a yellow, and he could’ve got away with that. But he knew what he’d seen and gave the correct punishment. Fair play to him, top, top ref.

Correct red card decision. Time for him to be moved up into the higher bandings of the PL