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According to The Athletic, Drysdale has been removed from his assignment this weekend. No specific details were provided as part of the report.
The thing that gets me is if a player did something like this, there would eventually be no punishment. Either the referee wouldn't punish, or Ipswich would appeal and get the penalty overturned (which is why referees don't punish these in the first place). The lack of consistency is what gets me on things like this. Yes, Drysdale shouldn't have done what he did. He admitted as much. But when we see players treat referees in similar manners, nothing is done about it. I'll keep going back to the Aguero/Massey-Ellis incident. That was a far worse situation, with actual physical contact and an intent for the contact to impact the official's behavior. Yet Aguero was not punished in any way for what he did.
The thing that gets me is if a player did something like this, there would eventually be no punishment. Either the referee wouldn't punish, or Ipswich would appeal and get the penalty overturned (which is why referees don't punish these in the first place). The lack of consistency is what gets me on things like this. Yes, Drysdale shouldn't have done what he did. He admitted as much. But when we see players treat referees in similar manners, nothing is done about it. I'll keep going back to the Aguero/Massey-Ellis incident. That was a far worse situation, with actual physical contact and an intent for the contact to impact the official's behavior. Yet Aguero was not punished in any way for what he did.