You just know what the outcry would be if it had been Connor Goldson who hauled down Nicky Clark as he ran clean though on goal rather than Charlie Mulgrew rugby takling Alfredo Morelos.
These decisions do, usually, even themselves up over the course of a season and for all that Mark Edwards was in close proximity, the fact that Morelos would have had enough time to take a touch before getting a shot off, had he not been fouled, suggests that the Dundee United defender got off lightly with a yellow card.
Speaking on Sportscene (via The Daily Record), James McFadden thinks that whistler, Don Robertson, got a potentially game changing decision wrong with the score at 0-0 in the first-half:
“When you see it at full speed, it looks to me that Morelos is going clear. He takes a brilliant touch and Edwards is covering, but I think that Morelos is clear and he’s going into the box.
“I think he’s favourite and can get a shot away. Edwards is in a good position and maybe that’s why but he only makes up the ground because Charlie Mulgrew makes the foul.
“I think that Morelos is going through on goal there. It’s a tough one though and the referee has got one look at it.
“But I think he’s got it wrong.”
McFadden is right, Morelos’s next touch would be just outside the box, if it wasn’t for Mulgrew pulling him back, Edwards would have been nowhere near him.
The decision isn’t the reason we got beat, but it certainly could have had an influence on the way things panned out, Mulgrew had been doing a good job in organising the United defence, his absence would have made them weaker – not just because they would have had a man less.
It says it all though that it was the manager and players that got the grief at full-time, not Robertson, we didn’t create enough clear cut chances to win, even if the opposition weren’t exactly opening us up at will either.
There were no conspiracy theories at full-time, no protests getting planned, however, let’s just hope that that’s the only decision that goes against us for the foreseeable future, in fact, it would be nice for it to get evened up sooner, rather than later.