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Mike Dean and his partners were gutless yesterday by wcnitz

Barkley should have been sent off - twice. This nonsense is a real problem for the FA and they need to grow a pair and address it.

You can't let Rojo get away with a red card tackle and Zlatan just annihilating a CB on a charge, then a few days later hit Vardy with a straight red for a clear ESO/SFP tackle. They need the power to retroactively give a red card for a clear SFP challenge or anything else cameras caught that the referee either didn't or chose to let slip by. And punish referees who were either out of position or chose not to enforce the laws of the game properly.