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And then the appeal goes to a panel of one referee and two players (or possibly managers) and the red card gets reversed because "they have a different set of criteria to the laws of the game" (quoted out of this very forum). There is your problem. Sometime the referees are damned if they do, dammed if they don't. The escape goat, etc etcThe difference here though it was so public and obvious. Managers are told that they must not confront match officials on the pitch, indeed it is now in law as an example of a sending off. You can see Steve Martin telling him to leave, once Warnock said another word after that or continued wildly gesticulating he should have been shown the red card. And then again in the next game, and then again when he does it again, and so on.