I really hope the FL do look in detail and act upon awful decisions. This is worse than for example not giving a debatable pen, in that this idiot was 100% certain within a micro second of this game changing decision without any further thought or discussion with his assistants. In the same...
Normally you would be correct that it "didn't need to be made" but in this case I think it did as the entire defence had been wrong footed by an awful/naive passage of play and it looked like he would score.
Yes, you've missed everything about it. A great tackle and the ball diverted so clearly, no danger to opponent, ball out of play and then opponent fell over tackler. Couldn't have been clearer. A shock to all when the little dictator wasted no time in arrogantly pointing to the spot.