Geoff the Ref
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72 minutes.
So this is the thing.
He had a couple of things to deal with during this game.
One, of course, was that shop tip tackle on Dunchay.
And then here, 72 minutes, Henry Bell gets yellow carded with a head clash with Nick Frost.
We've got a couple of angles on this.
The first angle you look at, it looks as though Frost... And this is the thing about television.
You've got to remember...
Every angle shows something else, gives you another picture, literally.
It shows him look as though he leans in there and almost goes for the headbutt.
If that's all you saw, I'm thinking I'm penalising Frost.
When you look at it from the other angle, he actually tries to duck his head down.
So there is a bit of subtlety there.
But it comes back to Bell and he's coming in again from quite an oblique angle.
I just don't know how he gets out of the way here.
What's he actually meant to do here to avoid getting a yellow card for face on face?
And again, if you watch this in real time, we're talking a fraction of a second here.
But it's a face-on-face, and I don't know whether or not a referee at that level thinks of the way that they'll be assessed afterwards and everything else.
A face-on-face, if you don't award anything there, that would be as unusual as anything in the game, wouldn't it?
And that one you think could have actually just been, oops, thank God neither of you got injured here.