I think we are in danger of letting this small incident overshadow the fact that it was a fantastic game of football, the most thrilling 0-0 draw I can remember seeing and all our players, including JP should be extremely proud of themselves.

Bangell - If Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus today, it would be about Jason Puncheon eternally trying and failing to pass with his right foot.

Didn't see it in real time as I was still griping about the penalty miss. Saw it on Sky Sports later and agree that it could easily have been a red.

There's a lot of decisions that have been made recently that show the lack of consistency in refereeing - the Pogba, Kane and Alli challenges are the ones that spring to mind that got dealt with differently.

Also agree with the OP that there would be a massive reaction on here had it been KDB or someone else on WZ or Andros.

Edited by Charlie Croker (01 Jan 2018 1.13pm)

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky."

Bet you hated football twenty years back when the tackles were flying everywhere

All should of received red cards for those challenges.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

I only saw it in real time but to that I would add the many "challenges" made by Walker on Wilf and the assault on Benteke which saw him hit the hoardings. There were many fouls not given by Moss such as the shove on Wilf and despite all of this it was a good game, if Punch is punished for this other than the yellow card then football continues it's dive into total corruption.

Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).

I'm not sure the ref saw it properly, hence the yellow. Conveniently means he won't get further punishment. It was so late I didn't see it until the replay as the play had moved on so much. I suspect the ref may have also been looking elsewhere.

At best the tackle can possibly be attributed to a lack of match-sharpness, but having just seen he was facing the wrong way during the penalty, the whole incident does seem bizarre. He'll escape a ban but that's irrelevant as he's confirmed he's not up to a first team place at present.

Secretly I do love a filthy tackle