[Salopbaggie]

To be honest when I saw the video I suspected this course of action, so no big surprise, even if Allen did drop, after a couple of mili-seconds thinking about it. It would be nice though if retrospective action was applied equally, sadly like everything in football these days it is not. I dare say we will say that "we accept the punishment, but referees need to more to protect our flare players and if they do not they must expect the players to get frustrated and react like this". That said what actually constitutes the referee 'taking action?' I would argue that the referee actually saw the incident, as he spoke to both players and awarded a free kick. How does that constitute the referee not taking action? Allen himself said " he caught me with an elbow, apologised saying it was not deliberate and I accept that".