Great win a slap in face for United

THE FORMER EVERTON DEFENDER TACKLES THE BIG ISSUES

- MICHAEL BALL

WHEN it came to the big talking point from Everton’s magnificent win at Manchester United, I think the referee was very quick to react with Idrissa Gueye’s sending off.

‘They were both as bad as each other.

Michael Keane's shove was quite aggressive, but it seemed like a case of ‘get on with it, get on with the game!

Idrissa’s reaction seems to be more instinct, but it seems something over nothing for me and if the referee had displayed a bit more common sense, nobody would have batted an eyelid.

I've seen the laws of the game, but they seem very subjective to me. Yes, he’s hit him in the face, but it’s not like he was trying to knock him out.

You don’t want to see that kind of incident on a football pitch, of course you don't. However, I think he could have just taken 10 or 15 seconds to speak to the players before he made a decision and it could have spoiled the game.

I really liked David Moyes’ interview after the game and I’m more in his camp over what he said about it all, but whether he'd have said the same if we'd lost, who knows?

I've been a player myself and if there were cameras in the changing rooms at halftime and full-time or at training grounds, a lot worse happens there, each and every day.

A lot of truth, emotions and anger comes out in those moments.

Idrissa crossed a line but what I liked about it was that he apologised straight away. I've been there as a player and I've done it to my manager when I was substituted and I lost it.