The best thing about a red card rather then a retrospective ban is that it potentially benefits the team against who the cheater was playing. So, for instance, yesterday - if he'd been sent off after nine minutes, we could have benefited. The trouble with bans is that with the big 6 squads...
? - it's nothing to with one being given / not being given for us, it's about what was/wasn't given for Arsenal.
1) Ref gives Arsenal a penalty which wasn't;
2) Ref doesn't give Arsenal a penalty late on, which looked more of a penalty than the one he did give them.
So - given them a penalty...
Your post implied you considered Palacefinder General was suggesting that giving us a penalty was 'evening things up'. As you say, it was a clear penalty so it wasn't evening things - so I was suggesting that maybe what he meant was that the 'evening it up bit' was not awarding a penalty...