Okay, interesting. I've been trying to find it online to watch it back again, but can't find anything.
Regarding consistency, why did he send of Mascherano last year then? Surely that was a similar situation (ignoring the fact that Masch let go outside of the box)
Me too, couldn't find nada. He got it wrong last year, I would have rewarded Mascherano for being smart in how he committed his professional foul as he let go once the box approaches. At the end of the day, he's human and prone to errors - it's been like that for 85,000 years, people are going to make mistakes, it sucks balls when it's your team on the wrong end of it but at the same token I remember my greatest night as a football fan, the ref certainly helped us on our way (Istanbul 2005). Adds to the passion and excitement of football, it's a beautiful game with so many emotions, it's like life itself - you get your ups and downs.
Consistency is relative and people are subject to change, looking at player's form as an example. You usually gauge it over any given period, for example we say Maxi hasn't been hitting his best of late or Reina was great last year (whereas he's made a couple of mistakes this year, not having a dig at the man - would marry him if I could). Webb made a mistake last year IMHO, but his mistake was to do with not realising Masch let go before Nani (was it Nani?) marauded into the box, this year he was much better. So to answer your question, I think he got it wrong last year.
