π¨π¨ποΈ| Howard Webb on Diogo Dalotβs foul on Jeremy Doku:
βI know other people think it's clearly red. I don't agree - I think there's a mix of considerations.
I know that when we look at this, we see that the point of contact is on the knee, but we also have to factor in speed, force and intensity.
You'll not see many red cards in the Premier League for serious foul play that don't involve those things.
Now, we evaluate those things through a full-speed view of the incident. Without looking at it at full speed, you get kind of a distorted view. You don't get a true picture of how much force and speed there was in the challenge.
That foot touches the knee, comes off pretty quickly. We can see on slow-mo that it does touch that knee.
But at full speed, when you play it in real time, you can see there's not a great deal of speed in the action. Not a lot of intensity.
When you slow it down it can look a lot worse - and it does. When you freeze frame it, you can make a lot of situations look like red-card offences.β