I agree with your assessment Falcon it was an awful game, one goal was always going to win it which luckily by way of a deflection fell nicely for Azza. I was standing on the side of the pitch where the alleged last man incident happened and have seen them given. Personally i don't think it was a foul that warrented any more than the free kick that was given myself. What was a no brainer for the Referee for me was that any one of the 3 elbows by your CF should have been a straight red card. He seen the first not the second but the worst one which was the last was clearly seen by the referee as you could see by his actions when pulling the player over for his yellow all of these coming in the first half.
I also thought an elbow by one of our lads late on could have seen a red but the ref having let 3 go made it difficult to issue a red. One of the worst games for giving refs stick i have seen this season, He's done well to just issue 4 yellows tbh.
Its all about opinions i suppose.
No doubt Chris who does our reports will see it different again when he posts it.
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