Salah fucked?

[mwake]

I don't agree about the Son tackle. Whatever led up to the challenge, it was a dangerous tackle in itself and for my money warranted a red regardless of the consequences. As far as I'm concerned Atkinson's mistake was his typical sh!thouse original decision, not the one he finally managed to make. I know it was rescinded but that just proves what a characteristically gopping mess the FA are making of all this.

I think Son’s tackle was a bit on the petulant side and wasn’t really a red. Choudary wasn’t petulant it was full on cynical and should’ve been off.

So yes, he could’ve used a better example.

Isn't it somewhat pertinent that it was subsequently judged that it was an error to give it? I would say if you were attempting to make the case that the Salah tackle was a red, then it would be best to give an analogous example of a tackle that was actually an indisputable red.

Personally I think the Choudary challenge was much more of a red than the Son challenge, which was clearly a case of a ref being influenced by the severity of the injury.

Agree with you guys...VAR is such a mess, it definitely should be used for those tackles that the referee fails to see. But it seems that the PL is more concerned about protecting the ego and image of the referee...let's be honest that's what the clear and obvious error rule is really about!! Forget about the referees egos and use it to analyze anything the referee misses in real time as the game is played at such a fast rate it's impossible to catch things in real time. Football isn't like 20 or 30 years ago... collectively footballers are better athletes, there's many footballers today who run so fast they would be in contention for a finals of the 100m final Olympic 1988, with that said how can we expect referees to catch things first time everytime?

If VAR was used in this instance they would have checked the tackle and given a straight red. But football is a funny game we may not have won the match if Choudhary have been sent off lol