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Two very poor red cards this afternoon at West Brom and Millwall for DOGSO.

I think the Key Match Incidents panel will be busy

I am not convinced of Tim Robinson's red at Birmingham alongside both mentioned above

On penalties awarded first one at Oxford looked soft at best (although great spot for the second one)
At Sheff Weds I will use that phrase "supportable" as I have only seen 1 angle, my "gut" said dive

On penalties not given I thought Millwall had a very good case, as did Swansea

Positively penalty awarded at Coventry, which on first viewing I thought was wrong. 2nd angle clearly shows stepping on the foot, well done Farai

Didn't Mark Clattenburg do a final in Europe having done a SF? May have been 1st leg?

I've watched the incident a few times now.

Firstly,  from the limited angles I've seen it's not as obvious a penalty as some are making out
Secondly, there is no way a 4O gives that from there, especially as I don't think there's an angle
Thirdly, by the same argument, I don't think AR1 has a view. The ball has moved from near them into the area and the incident would have happened near to a very congested offside line

Which leaves the referee. He, unfortunately,was following recent, common convention and was bang in the centre of the field. By the time his head turned, the incident had happened. My feelings of Mr Busby are well chronicled, but in this case I don't think he could have seen it. Should he be wider - maybe,  should he have seen it - probably. But having not seen it, he didn't guess
Unfortunately having had a recent, similar incident at that ground against the home team, I can understand the anger, if not how it was demonstrated
With VAR you would need more angles to see if the contact was deliberate, my guess those behind the goal, to that side had a great view!!

Some good games there for our ladies, always good to see so many out and about

"Those at the game felt a soft penalty award from Harry Wager for the hosts fifth goal"

Thought that from the clip I saw

An observer once said to me "you see too much";
Things that aren't necessarily wrong but not expected by anyone else- this is my feeling of Matt Carley - he finds reasons to stop games, rather than reasons to keep it going

Neither combination of referees contributed to the shower of English sh*te that was on view today. In fact Piradi got a bigger round of applause than most in white shirts!!

"with Howard Webb in attendance!"

From one bear pit to another as Webb's next observation is Galatasaray in Turkey!! Not much of a difference 😉