Daily Mail

Not good when both sets of fans boo you!

- GRAHAM POLL

YOU know you’ve had a bad day at the office when the home and away fans are both on your back! However, while Martin Atkinson missed a clear penalty for Watford in the final minute, he got the other major decisions correct. Watford earlier wanted a penalty when Richarliso­n tangled with Ben Davies but it was as much the Watford player causing contact as anything else so I wouldn’t have awarded a penalty. Then Atkinson sent off Davinson Sanchez when his outstretch­ed arm caught Richarliso­n in the face (left). Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino felt it wasn’t deliberate but the Spurs player knew the risk he was taking when he flung out his arm. If he’d merely blocked the Brazilian it would definitely only have been a yellow. Missing Eric Dier’s last-minute handball was Atkinson’s clearest mistake and he should look at his poor positionin­g late in the game and challenge himself to do better as it was a stonewall penalty.

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