Ref right to allow Aguero’s opener

A ONE-SIDED Carabao Cup final was well refereed by Craig Pawson, who did not need to call on neil Swarbrick and his VAR technology. Arsenal protested at Sergio Aguero’s physicality in the build-up to the opening goal but there was never a possibility of a foul on Shkodran Mustafi. There were no penalty appeals or anything like red-card tackles, but although technology wasn’t required I would have preferred Pawson to have cautioned Jack Wilshere for diving in an attempt to get Fernandinho dismissed rather than wave play on. After Dele Alli’s display earlier in the day, what is it with english midfielders at the moment? Wilshere can say he has suffered injuries and was protecting himself, but you can’t have one rule for Dele and another for him. It was a dive.