Bert still on the mend. Nice to hear about the Womble family visiting him bearing gifts and company.

Paddington - agreed. Hopefully the authorities will do the right thing but we shall see soon enough either way.

Anyone got a sense if tickets will make general sale on Tuesday? Hasn’t been a consideration so far but just noticed my bog standard membership only gets me 1x guaranteed ticket…

Thank you, tom. With luck we'll all be proved wrong 😀

The panel is independent by the way

In 30 years of refereeing I would have given a red card for that every time

However if an appeal is considered frivolous then additional games are added to the ban. Jatta's offence carries a mandatory 3 match ban and I cannot see what evidence NC could produce to change the decision.

Mea Culpa, that's how it used to be. The club that is appealing has to provide evidence that the referee got the decision wrong. This is considered by a panel who make the decision.

Ah. Thanks tom.

So happy, Matilda and I will be there Saturday!!

The FA don't overturn red cards. If a club appeals, the referee is asked to review his decision at which point the referee may decide his decision was incorrect

FA to ask three-man panel to examine Alassana Jatta‘s red card [Link]

That would be opening Pandora's Box

I think they could have overturned it but only if he hadn't reacted like a moron / totally lost his head as he was going off

Very good programme on BBC2 about the Bradford fire

Still don't trust the FA, Kitey 😞

Play off anxiety does strange things to people Padds

There are indeed no good grounds for the red card to be overturned but we all know that the FA don’t always follow their rules, otherwise the whole MK thing wouldn’t have been allowed, so who knows what will happen here and if they decide to “waive the rules”” then the shirt pull thing is the sort of pretext that they would use.

So do I, A4E. It's a very bad sign when you and Nick are talking like this. Haven't noticed that either of you are given to paranoia.

The shirt pull is not mitigation for serious foul play ... there are no grounds for rescinding.

Padd - I truly hope they only care about facts, in which case, it’s a red 😬

I think A4E and Nick are suggesting that the FA care what Sky thinks.

They could argue they should have had a penalty in the first half and the whole game would be different but I don't think that is grounds. The best grounds are to claim it was reckless rather than using excessive force but going in with both feet off the ground is hard to justify as simply careless or reckless. Do the FA care about who is in the EFL finals?

I suspect that the basis for allowing the appeal will be that they should have had a free kick for the “shirt pull” so if that had been given neither the tackle nor any of the other stuff after the sending off would have happened. Again, I don’t know if that is technically a valid argument but it would certainly give cover for a political/commercial-based overturning of the card

Oh dear. Mr P says he reckons the length of the highlights was 3:20 when he saw the first version but is still 3:20. Let us see.....