MARK CLATTENBURG
WHEN Michael Oliver saw Mamadou Sakho so tight to Mo Salah he would have thought: ‘Is there going to be contact?’ — and there duly was. As a referee, you will take into consideration the fact that Salah would probably not go down if he had the chance to score. It is the correct call and Oliver had the perfect position. It was the same with the red card — Salah was clear on goal and outside the penalty area, and would not have gone down without contact. There was contact, and with Salah running at pace, it was enough to knock him off balance. If the foul had been inside the penalty area, then a penalty and yellow card would have been the correct decision. As the foul was outside, a free-kick and red card is correct.