The match officials should be red carded for getting it so wrong with the Lood de Jager straight red-card sending off, writes Mark Keohane.
De Jager was shown a straight red card for an action deemed to be premeditated foul play, through the intervention of the assistants and Television Match Official after referee Angus Gardner initially waved play on for a collision that happened right in front of him in real time.
Gardner was insistent initially that he did not think it warranted a red card, when the TMO intervened and asked him to have a look at
