Sure it was correct by the letter of the law, the problem is that we’re the only team that gets reffed to the letter of the law.

I remember just a couple weeks later there was the pen against Liverpool where someone tripped over TAA while he was lying on the ground. I don’t really agree that it’s a penalty but by the same logic you have to give a red there, but they didn’t ofc. Just like they haven’t done it any other time since the double jeopardy rule except for blatant shirt pulls (and even then most of them get away with it).

Something can be correct by the letter of the law but still be wrong due to inconsistency. At the end of the day the most important thing is that reffing is fair between teams and games, rather than the rules being followed to a tee at one specific moment (but not all the previous times for some reason). That’s why precedent is such an important factor in judicial decisions