He doesn't need to though. An attacker can be 30 yards from goal, running onto a ball 10 yards from him and if he's pulled down it's a red card. He doesn't need to have even touched the ball.
Agreed. But also from the pitch side angle it looks like he was trying to get to ball though. It doesn't look like that on the normal camera angle and from the refs angle may have looked like he was just trying to take him out, and so the red was a pretty easy call for him.
Right, but it's swings and roundabouts. What about the one we didn't get when 2 up in the Lincoln home playoff? Might already be up if not for that one.
Perfect example of how such fine margins make the difference. Decisions by humans, where interpretation is required, are always open to mistakes and the potential consequences that are long lasting. We will never know if that was the one that cost us, but it is a great what if...
You're exactly right. But God know where we could be if the universe had tilted even just a little bit more our way over the years.
