IT WAS A PAD CALL

DAVID JEFFREY confronted reporters with Jordan Williamson’s cracked shin pad to dispute the Ballymena keeper’s red card against Coleraine.

Williamson received his marching orders

(above) from referee Tony Clarke two minutes into added time after a thumping challenge on Bannsiders substitute Stewart Nixon.

He appeared to make clean contact with the ball as he raced from his area, before his momentum led to a crunching collision.

An incensed Jeffrey insisted

Williamson was harshly dealt with and pointed to his broken shin pad (inset) to bolster his case.

The United boss said: “That’s what happened to Jordan’s shin pad - it is cracked and broken - and yet he was sent off.

“Was the Coleraine player able to get up and finish the game? Yes. Was he injured? No. Yet this is the damage done to our player’s shin pad.

“I’m showing it to you because we need to be factual and I believe it is unquestionable evidence that Jordan shouldn’t have been set off.”

playing regularly in his second spell at the club, Barnett said: “He’s towards the end of his career. Really, you have to ask Mourinho that.

“When they say, ‘What’s happened to him?’ – he’s won more trophies abroad than any British player in history and has enough money for the rest of his life.

“He has a very good lifestyle, so that is what has happened to him.”

Bale returned to Tottenham on a loan deal in September after falling out with Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane (above). But his added time in north London is turning out to be a bit of a nightmare.

Spurs agreed to pay in the region of £250,000-a-week of Bale’s mammoth £600,000-a-week salary.

Mourinho said last week that Bale was not ready to play, despite a social media post from the Wales hero suggesting he was in good health.