You're probably right on everything except the highlighted bit.
The rest is why he's there despite probably every fibre of his being saying - 'not this time'.
I can only think of one other person, on the planet, who'd behave the way Wilder has in his last few post matches interviews and Chris...
Looking at the highlights the ref isn't looking at the tackle from an angle that clearly shows Mitoma's left leg.
Coupled with that a Utd player crosses his eyeline at the exact moment of the tackle.
TBH scrolling back and forth across the challenge I'm more surprised he gave anything.
Earlier I was trying to work out his game plan.
He took on a hiding to nothing.
But in doing so has behaved in a manner that makes him pretty much unemployable, going forward.
Had he made a decent stab at Sheffield he could have got himself on the 'no imagination firefighter' appointment gravy...