Can anyone recall the specifics of what happened with the Barton/Kayal thing?
I can completely understand why people draw parallels between the two incidents, but I don't recall Barton ever being "cleared" as some are saying. My recollection, which may be off, is that the match referee saw the incident (the ball is in shot of all the photos of the stamp) so it would NOT have been referred to subsequent review.
If the referee sees the incident and takes no action, then it can not be looked at again, under current rules.
Given this, I don't think they're the same at all although, again, I get why people are mentioning it.
Correct. The ref (Pawson?) confirmed he saw the deliberate stamp and decided it was FINE.