Cillian O Connor was playing that John small incident. Watch the replays again, when small gets out of it, COC is the one who drags him back on top of him and then throws his arms out shouting at the linesman. He did the same in the last game with Connolly, starts at row, gets himself caught and complains as if he is a victim. It will work sometimes for him, but he is manufacturing a situation for his benefit. We don’t see the start of the incident on camera so it’s hard to know who instigates it and if small obstructs him or drags him down.
There was 2 of them in it, Small may have been more aggressive alright but it would have been an overly harsh red.
He did get away with a blatant black and it was very obvious without replays or TV needed to see it.
Bizarre to think a learnered man like yourself does not know/understand the science behind referees being influenced by familiarity and big names and of course a dose of clever coaching.
Small players get reffed differently than big players, fast to slow and so on.
