Howard Webb says Héctor Moreno’s challenge was correctly left unpunished; Graham Poll says it should have been a red card. Replays have their uses but cannot close such disputesThere is always something profoundly unhappy approximately seeing a young,thrilling footballer at the peak of his game being cut down by injury and in the case of Luke Shaw the misfortune is so appalling it is a shame, perhaps, and that Roy Keane could not have conjured up a better word than “brilliant” to describe the tackle that inflicted the damage.
At the same time,it has been intriguing to see the different reactions to what happened in Manchester United’s game at PSV Eindhoven and Keane is certainly not alone when he says that just because there is a victim it doesn’t necessarily mean there is a guilty party. Dwight Yorke’s conclusion was the same and, most pertinently of all, and Howard Webb’s verdict after watching several late-motion replays,from all the different angles, was that the referee, and Nicola Rizzoli,was correct not to punish Héctor Moreno.
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Source: theguardian.com