The LS one was a bit of something and nothing, he left his boot in there, but it wasn't a stamp, a lunge or running his studs down his shin. That said, with our luck with VAR it could have ended in trouble.
What I meant by the 'finer subtlety' was LS ignoring the Real player trying to give him the ball and walking to the spare ball to pick that up, in order to slow the game down. Just little things like that, which you don't coach, but a player has either got or he hasn't
Reading quite a lot into a man picking up a football.


