Well as expected the FA have got the match report from yesterday’s little friendly, and are “urgently” considering it and video tapes. As usual, the FA’s website goes into overdrive; they just love a juicy story like this. “Stay logged on to TheFA.com for all the latest news on this story” they report!
The problem with this is that yes it was at a high profile match, and therefore you’re unfairly penalised. I don’t know exactly how many cameras Sky had at that game, but let’s say it was a conservative 20. But compare that with, say Fulham v Man City on Saturday. It wouldn’t have been a main ITV Premiership match, so there’d be a maximum of three cameras there to catch the goals but not much more. If there’d be a fracas on the pitch, they’d have caught some of it, but on a live Sky game, cameras are everywhere, and thus far likelier to catch the “untoward.”