Stevie Nicholl

Where do you stand on the red card, Stevie?

It's a red card.

As a defender, when you get caught on the wrong side, it then becomes your responsibility not to make contact with your attacker.

And we can talk about whether the ball was behind him, did he have control of it, but at the end of the day, regardless of where it is, he's not going to be able to control it if the defender bumps him.

He basically runs into his back leg.

And so, as I said, defensively you get caught on the wrong side.

Your responsibility when you're behind is to not make contact in any shape, way or form.

And he doesn't do that.

He completely and utterly makes contact and down he goes and I think the red card is the right call.

When you're running that way.

That's going against physics, I believe, isn't it?

I think that was the reason that he was overdoing it.

Because in quick succession, those two horrendous passes, after looking so great,

I think that that is the reason he was trying to make up for that.

He had that in his mind.

And so he overdoes it.

So instead of going by two and then maybe three and then releasing the pass, because clearly if you've got three men around you, there has to be a gap.

He just didn't quite get his head up.

And then that's why he overdid it.

But I think it was all to do with those first two early doors where you're like, really?