The People's Forum: If you’re the player behind and there’s a tangle of legs then it’s your fault & a foul

only exception I can think of to that is when the ‘fouled’ player swerves across the other player’s path, which didn’t happen here

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For all the talk of whether or not there should have been a penalty immediately before the red card, my question is simply should that have been a red card anyway?

From what I saw 2 players were running together. Legs contacted and one fell over. Maybe it’s my age but for the majority of my football years there had to be a deliberate foul. Branthwaite didn’t pull him back, didn’t try and trip him, didn’t handball etc.

Surely a game changing red card decision needs to have a clear element of intent. I didn’t see that. Ergo not a red card

Or am I talking bollocks?