Originally Posted by
UlleyMiller
"When a Red Card + Penalty Happens:
No Attempt to Play the Ball: If a defender commits a foul that denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity (DOGSO) by pulling, pushing, or holding without trying to play the ball, it is a penalty and a red card.
When a Red Card is Downgraded (Double Jeopardy Mitigation):
If a defender makes a genuine attempt to play the ball to challenge for it, but still commits a foul that denies a goal-scoring opportunity inside the box, the penalty is given, but the card is reduced from red to yellow."
The player was behind Watmore and pulled as he tied to get around him. By the letter of the law it was a red card UNLESS the referee thought it wasn't a 'DOGSO' situation. The ref was a solid 30-40 yards away (as he often was on Saturday), and didn't take any information from his assistant, so it was pretty much a guess.
Changes very little because a) We're seldom better against ten, and b) Second half they would have found two goals whatever happened because we went to sleep and they turned up. We're in these situations because too often we've coasted, failed to set up correctly, got the tactics wrong, not motivated players enough, and ended up with fewer points from very winnable games (Donny, Burton, Wimbledon in recent memory should have all been wins, and we'd have been 8 points better off... but we're failing on and off the pitch.
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