It wasn't a clear penalty.
Plenty of times refs have bottled obvious second yellows because they didn't want give red.
That opinion comes from having seen it on the highlights.
Warnock. Says it all.
Game's gone.
No it really wasn't. Forest player initiated contact then fell over ala Harry Kane. If anything, it was a foul on Baleba.
On the Savage and Sutton phone-in Chris Sutton seemed to suggest that in their day you’d likely have got away with it; I’m of the opinion that mid-90s that was still a booking, the kind of booking the likes of Savage, Scholes, Keane, Gerrard etc. regularly got, so this thought that they used to play some kind of tougher game doesn’t hold true in my memory. A ref may have missed it mid-90s, or not had a 4th official, but I think seeing it back then it’s still reckless and would have been a booking.
Exactly my thought! Had Baleba gone down it was his free kick - thought he was very unlucky and just stayed running on his path.
Ooh I heard someone say that. Didn't realise it was you. If it was (and not someone else who had a similar view) I was the bloke who fleetingly discussed the forest fans' myopia with you
That's one step away from 'woke nonsense '
Yeah he's talking nonsense and isn't backing down based on his initial reaction to the tackle at the ground which he thought was fair. I genuinely can't figure out how anyone in the professional game can't see that's a dangerous foul. They are however all correct on Ref Watch that it was definitely a pen against Baleba.
