Nah bollocks to that as a retrospective red. How often are retrospective bans given? Bet there’s loads of incidents similar every season that could be looked at and taken the same way as this that never are. And yet this is, and now!?
This looks way worse than it is when you slow it down and look at movements in isolation. Flynn has his eyes on the ball. The arm would have made contact with the players chest if his knees didn’t buckle from the THB challenge as Flynn made contact. The elbow to the face would have looked and was intended like a pushing away at chest height to get his body in between him and the ball if the Swansea player wasn't so low down and buckling towards Flynn at the moment of contact. It’s just an unfortunate series of events imo.
If given as a red in real time, without the ref being able to watch it back I’d call it unfortunate but could understand it far more than being given retrospectively. I’d also take it being a yellow in real time and then a yellow for the stupid afters that he did get a yellow for, resulting in a red. But this retrospective red is bollocks imo. Meanwhile Hackney can literally and very deliberately lash out and hack a player and because a **** ref saw it and somehow only gave a yellow it can’t be retrospectively looked at? Just **** that rule off because it’s just ****ing stupid. That’s a way more obvious red than this by Flynn. The Gabriel headbut too. But again, stupid rule and incompetent referee (and VAR use on that occasion) saves him. The inconsistency and the fact that they always seem to decide to flex their power on smaller clubs is galling. Especially just before a huge few games for us which he’ll now miss. How very convenient.
