“We’ll definitely appeal. Initially when I saw Robert go into the challenge, I thought that was reckless. But when you look at the challenge, his feet are on the ground and he pulls away from the challenge. He realises he’s made a mistake and hasn’t gone through. The foot that he leads with is scraping across the ground. It’s not even in the air. Why is the lad rolling around if he hasn’t been touched? When you get situations when players are rolling around when they’ve not been hurt, something’s got to be done because we don’t want to take challenges out of the game. It is creeping into the game where players are going down now with the intention of getting other players booked or sent off.” – Tony Pulis.

“I haven’t seen it back, but my initial view was that it was going to be a red card, what with the new directives that the referees have been given – although Tony will probably disagree. The players around it thought it was a red card.” – Martin O’Neill.

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Watch the Robert Huth challenge on David Meyler here.

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