Alan Smith

It's very difficult to just let go or not get involved in some kind of grappling.

I think he's made a poor decision.

I think the first one now is just a consequence of how the rules have changed.

We want to see players punished for that, don't we?

Yeah.

And it will stop.

Yeah, I do.

I mean, I don't think it's the worst bit of dissent I've ever seen, but it's just the way it's gone now, and I've got no problems with it, as long as we have consistency with it.

It looks like, at the moment, the first couple of games we've had that.

It's the same with grappling in the box with the game of Man City yesterday.

That's what we want, but we want officials that are going to be brave enough to do it all the time.

Diego Costa got booked for dissent, didn't he?

Whatever he said, I don't know.

It's probably worse than what he said.

But his manager, Antonio Conte, had a go at him for it, didn't he?

Yeah, but the game again on Monday night, he should have got sent off for that.

So I don't think there is that consistency yet.

But he was also booked for dissent in that game too.

Exactly, I know.

But he could have got booked again after that, couldn't he?