You can see in that angle as soon Gabriel does it, Dean walks right past him and immediately looks down. If Dean was looking at the ball in the earlier incident, then he may have missed the slapping in face stuff but couldn't have missed the chest bump or grapple after. Nor could the linesman on the nearside who would've been in line with play. So maybe that is what he got the yellow for. Which means it comes down to the face slap and whether Dean saw and ignored it or just didn't see it at all. His report today will reveal a lot.
You'd want to believe the latter rather than the former because there's already enough bullshit force fed down our throat making us sick of the modern game. But then you read stats like these...
http://news.arseblog.com/2015/09/mik...y-the-numbers/
... and it's hard to not come to one conclusion. So when you see the pattern emerge across other big teams against ourselves, then you have to look at the corruption idea more closely.
It's a complicated argument because the first opposing question to that theory is why would we be the ones out of the big teams not to be in on it? We're owned by two crooks after all. The teams outside the top four would also surely say that they get more decisions against them as a whole, that they suffer more bias against them, particularly away from home. Yet with so much money in the game how can corruption not be rife? People don't remain clean when they have the chance to glean even more than the filthy riches they have already stolen. History shows us that. There is always room for a couple extra zero's in their account. Obviously one of the best practices intertwined with deception is misdirection, which is probably keeping everyone off the scent for now.
And the media? Fuck most of them. A bunch of blood hungry scavengers ready to devour whoever is next on the list. Finding a good article to read about anything is a task in itself, one that isn't slanted toward an agenda or just bullshit click-bait. Costa is on the cards at the moment, so we may as well enjoy that short term benefit even if it doesn't lead to anything because in a week or two, the blood would've dried up and they'll be on the prowl for fresh meat.