[Jacko The Flopsy Piglet]

I don't want to sound like I'm just being argumentative but I really don't buy this theory that ref's are getting worse. They've always been inconsistent and made what appear to be baffling decisions, I don't think there are any more now than there were ten or twenty years ago.

I went on a refereeing course about ten years ago and it opened my eyes to watching the game. The first thing they told us on the course was that we'd never watch the game in the same way again, and it's true. I still get frustrated about what appear to be obvious mistakes by ref's but I've never thought they were biased, just mistaken. Still frustrating and annoying though!

I'd like to defend Forestieri and the first incident does look like a body check but he definitely overdid his fall and I think that was his undoing. In fact, the ref could easily have given us the free kick and still booked Forestieri. The second yellow was just insensible but again having done something like that myself during my Sunday League playing days I know it does happen sometimes and no amount of warnings beforehand will stop it from happening. It's just one of those strange tricks the human brain plays on us from time to time!