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That red card will never be rescinded. To do so would mean the FA admitting culpability in a £170m game. They just won't. Someone made a very good point on Twitter: why wasn't the game given to a Championship ref? A ref who knows the league and the players rather than Mike "Look at me, I'm a...

You'd have to ask Mike Dean. My guess would be that Boro spent a lot of money on promotion this season and he wasn't going to let them down. But who knows, I'm not Mike Dean.

There's two reasons why ref gave the red: 1 - Ramirez and Stephens had a bit of handbags just prior 2 - the ref reacted to the injury and not the offence He bottled it. I thought officiating throughout was pretty poor. Stephens again on the wrong end in the first half for a tackle he won...