The controversial sending off at Tannadice was overturned on appeal - and the head of refereeing operations isn't impressed
Willie Collum reckons that Nick Walsh did get the call to send Rangers star Mohamed Diomande off against Dundee United WRONG.
Asked for his take on the incident, Collum said: "We had lots of discussion about this incident. We've coached the match officials that we don't think it is a red card. We agree with the viewpoint that the VAR talks about when assessing the incident about excessive force, brutality, is there contact in the face? Is it negligible? These are key phrases that I have mentioned before in this show that need to be taken into account.
"For us, this incident doesn't have excessive force, brutality and the contact is negligible, if any. What I would say, if you go back many years ago, people talked about in the laws of the game, because it was written in the laws of the game, strikes or attempts to strike an opponent and potentially under the laws of the game with that kind of terminology you would see a different outcome, but now the threshold is about excessive force, brutality and negligible contact as well.
"Again, if you go back to the learning curve from Motherwell vs Kilmarnock, we say don't show it in slow motion, show things in full speed, so we are learning. If we make mistakes - we don't want to make mistakes, we don't want to call things wrong - but when we call them wrong we need to learn from them.
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