Mensah red card appeal succeeds

[BBC Sport]

Sunderland successfully appeal against the sending off of defender John Mensah during Sunday's Premier League loss to Liverpool.

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[Ben]

Was he not the last man?

 

[A* Manager]

Personally , I thought the ref got it right :S

 

[iamauser]

It would have been a seconds yellow = red anyway.

Very weird decision by the FA

 

[A* Manager]

They overturn this but not the blatant referee mistakes which result in a sending off?

 

[DMF]

Doesn't make much sense.. he looked like the last man and was already on a yellow card anyway.

Hmm.. :$

 

[I Hate Fish]

Wasn't he the last man? The FA needs to grow a brain.

 

[madmonkey]

perhaps they consdered the first foul as not a yellow, and the second one as only a yellow.

I t was a harsh sending off, but it was also by the book.

 

[pokiuki123]

The first was a yellow as spearing was through on goal and the second was atleast a yellow

 

[pockley123]

I was at the game, i thought it could of gone either way. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150169537696427&set=pu.155734271426&theater First one he sliced the ball marginally, however if you look the players still 5 yards outside the box, so it was never a penalty. Worst performances ive seen from officials in years.

 

[19-11-08]

Wierd that they allow red cards to be overturned retrospectively using video evidence but they won't give them out using video evidence.

 

[Ben]

I was at the game, i thought it could of gone either way. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150169537696427&set=pu.155734271426&theater First one he sliced the ball marginally, however if you look the players still 5 yards outside the box, so it was never a penalty. Worst performances ive seen from officials in years.

That was a yard, maybe 2. Not a penalty though. Use were unlucky but never deserved anything out of the game to be honest.

 

[5ICK]

Quite a weird decision, indeed.