Dermot Gallagher
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It's impossible.
He must see it and he hasn't seen it.
He's waved it away and play's gone on.
I think that's exactly the right decision for that situation.
Well, if it was a first yellow card, it's still the same, David, because if he can't see it, he can't see it.
I think in that situation, the fact is, as I say, Fabregas and Kante are in his line of view.
You look at it again and you say, who initiated the contact?
He can't tell.
And in that situation, play must go on.
I think it wasn't a penalty for me.
I think the guy's too close.
I think when Mike looks down the line, he sees a slight movement of the arm, but I don't think he's aware that that movement is probably just getting his balance.
He's taken that as he's moved his arm towards the ball, but for me it's too close and it wasn't a penalty.
I think you've got to take each one on its individual merit, and you see yesterday's is totally different, the armour's in the air.
Over this season, the referees, I think by and large, have been pretty good on handballs.
They went into the club's early season, they said what they thought was going to be handball, they explained what wasn't.
When you look at it across the first 19, 20 weeks of the season, by and large, they've got a good consistency on that.
It's just unfortunate.
In football for referees, the bad luck is two occurrences occur within 24 hours and they look totally different and two different outcomes.
And that's why we talk about it, unfortunately.