Middlesbrough v QPR

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The 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.

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 etc

 

[RustyRef]

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 etc

To be fair I don't think even the most player and manager focused appeal panel could back Warnock here given his actions. His defence would be as he used on the radio, that he was just having a friendly chat with the referee to ask him awfully nicely if he could see him in his changing room after 30 minutes. No appeal panel is going to believe that twaddle given the clear video evidence. Yes, he could claim he didn't swear, but law is now clear that confronting the match officials on the pitch is a red card offence, there is no need for any fruity language.