Steve Bone

yes I keep on watching it back and I've just watched it five minutes before talking to you just to remind myself and I it's a difficult one but it is not the is not the most unjust red card I've ever seen but far from it

You can see, I think you can partly see why it's been given and we still don't know whether it was the referee's decision from first sight or the linesman intervened or I don't know if the fourth official is allowed to even.

I don't know who has said that is a red card but obviously between them or...

The referee has either made that decision himself or he's had help in making that decision.

It's a clumsy challenge by Ogilvy because the first contact, he's obviously trying to, you know, it's a bad touch and he's trying to get the ball back and the first contact is sort of ankle on ankle, isn't it, as he's trying to get to the ball and that is what brings the Oxford player down and Ogilvy then kind of wraps himself around it and gets the ball.

And I think at the time, you know, I think you can sometimes judge these things by people's reaction in real time.

In real time, people thought, oh, OK, well, that's a freak kick against us.

That's a shame.

Maybe, you know, it could have been a booking issue.

But I don't think anybody expected it to be a red card.

And I think one of the tests for these things is what would the reaction from both sides have been if he'd given a yellow card.

Don't think Pompey would have complained too much.

Pretty sure Oxford wouldn't have complained either.

Because I don't think they were expecting it to be red either.

But it's a tricky one, because if you watch something 20 times and 30 times, you begin to see more and more, and you almost begin to convince yourself, well, OK, maybe it was a bad one.

But I don't know.

I'm sure you've had a range of views given on Pompey Sound this week on it.

That's probably where I'm coming from on it, though.

Yeah, I think so, yeah.

I think if you're given yellow, everybody gets on with the game.