zarathustra
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I didn't see the whole game so don't know about a missed DOGSO, but he did certainly seem to think the other challenge wasn't SFP, I'm sure when he saw it back later he may have been kicking himself.
But the second yellow, I know you're a City fan, but get a grip.
Under the latest revision of the laws of the game what Sterling did is a mandatory caution, you can't apply the spirit of the game, or manage it away like you could with a borderline foul. He HAD to give the caution, no ifs no buts.
If you can't accept that then you need to take your blue tinted specs off and look at it as a referee.
If faced with a similar situation in one of your games would honestly ignore it and not administer the caution?
We don't get to pick and choose what laws to apply and when in a game to apply them, the laws are the same from the 1st minute to 90th.
As the commandant at Sandhurst used to say, "Do the right thing, not the easy thing"
