Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Sigh.

That's a trip, not a tackle. You won't see a red given for a challenge like that again this season. Unless it's Moss reffing us perhaps. Yes, cynical. Yes, a trip. Yes, yellow.

But when it's a red it means the ref has created a new rule and as I understand it he's not permitted to do that. So either he's utterly incompetent or he's a cheat. I would say both in this instance.
I'll have to watch that again, but he jumps in and lunges at the player to try get contact on the player and not the ball.