Ross keen to appeal against late red card for Maguire

SUNDERLAND will consider appealing against Chris Maguire’s red card with manager Jack Ross branding referee Lee Probert’s performance ‘poor’.

Maguire was shown a straight red card in injury time, apparently for stamping on Alan McCormack, which meant the game ended ten-a-side after Danny Hylton had earlier been dismissed for elbowing Jack Baldwin.

But Ross felt that neither player should have seen red.

“I don’t think either of them were red cards – that was my first thought,” said Ross.

“I don’t think Danny Hylton’s was a red card, and if anything I thought the challenge that James Collins made later on which he was cautioned for was more of a red card.

“I haven’t spoken to anyone within the club [about an appeal] yet, but if you are asking me as the manager I would say yes.

“Having watched it, and having heard from the fourth official what the card was given for, the two don’t marry together. So it will be interesting to see, if we do appeal, what their reasoning for giving the card is. Chris Maguire, I’ve been told by the fourth official, was sent off for a stamp, which he didn’t do.”

If Sunderland do not appeal against Maguire’s card, or if an appeal is unsuccessful, he will miss three league games.