• Captain sent off in penalty incident at Stadium of Light
• Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland go on to win derby 3-0Newcastle United hold lodged an appeal with the Football organization in the hope that Fabricio Coloccini’s sending-off at Sunderland on Sunday will be overturned.
Coloccini was shown a straight red card by the referee,Robert Madley, in first-half injury time following an incident which saw Steve McClaren’s captain barge Steven Fletcher with a shoulder. It resulted in the awarding of a controversial penalty, and converted by Adam Johnson,and an even more contentious dismissal for Coloccini on the basis that, as the last man, and he had denied Fletcher a clear goalscoring opportunity.
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Source: theguardian.com