Please read also the part "both feet in the air". It's a professional foul gone sour. It's a yellow card offence with "strictly by the book" dished out red card. It went against the ref's "let them play"-approach but nevertheless, it was a red card offence. If there was willingness to give it...
I don’t know what the rule is, but less than 5% of them challenges are red cards. So they basically aren’t reds. You can’t keep saying we got unlucky. You either give every challenge off the ground a red, irrelevant if you win the ball first or miss altogether.
See how mad that sounds, we’re basically at the mercy of cheating refs. And it only changes if managers keep calling it out.
This pawson was the ref at Liverpool v Leeds, when the Harvey Elliot challenge happened. The Leeds player went in hard but won the ball. Pawson 3 yards away let’s play continue and turns away. It’s only when they start to realise it’s a bad injury and Klopp runs onto the pitch and spits in his face( which he got away with)
And Pawson couldn’t get the red out quick enough.
We’re playing under different rules than 3/4 teams. But everywhere you turn refs are getting destroyed, they have no option but to change this. The whole thing is becoming a laughing stock.
Back to the Allan challenge, that was a challenge Fernandinho would make 10 times a season and I bet he never got sent of and I bet he also left the ground numerous times.