Just seen MOTD and unfortunately I've got to agree with Moyes, who was pointing out the inconsistency in giving red cards. His player gets kicked in the face but the Bournemouth player gets a yellow, presumably because it was deemed to be accidental as the offending player was tracking the ball. But he says that he had a player sent off who was tracking the ball and elbowed someone (that was Carroll so perhaps that makes a difference, though it shouldn't really if we're being fair). I don't have any answers but I know that as long as the authorities ignore this issue then the "subjective" view of refs will very much depend on what teams are playing. In other words I very much see a Bournemouth player being sent off for exactly the same offence if they committed it at ManU or ManC.
Another strange thing which may or not be true, but I'm just asking, is whether you are more likely to get a red for a swing of the arm than a boot. Surely this doesn't make much logical sense as are you not potentially going to do more damage with a boot? But we have the situation where Dave gets sent off for something pretty innocuous - well unlikely to do much damage anyway, while we have lots of examples of boots connecting to faces that get only yellows. Just wondering, because it appears that the severity of the challenge does not reflect the severity of the punishment.
