Ref Watch: No Vardy dive

Should Lee Cattermole and Gary Cahill have seen red? Was Jamie Vardy rightly awarded a penalty? Should Arsenal have had a penalty against Manchester City?

Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher joined host Rob Wotton in the Sky Sports News HQ studio to analyse a number of contentious calls from the weekend.

Was your team affected by a controversial decision? Read on to find out…

MATCH: Sunderland v Chelsea, Premier League, Saturday

INCIDENT: Gary Cahill is shown a yellow card, rather than a red, for bringing down Jermain Defoe in the first minute of the match as he looked to go through on goal.

GALLAGHER’S VIEW: “It shows how alert the referee and his assistant were, for two reasons. Defoe is yards offside when he gets the ball but it’s a back-pass from a Chelsea player, so the assistant is alert and hasn’t flagged for offside. The referee then sees Cahill has fouled him but John Terry is close enough to make it a possible goalscoring opportunity rather than an obvious one.”

GALLAGHER’S VERDICT: Correct decision

MATCH: Sunderland v Chelsea

INCIDENT: Lee Cattermole is booked for a lunging tackle on Eden Hazard.

GALLAGHER’S VIEW: “I think it’s a worse challenge than the referee realises. He sees it and thinks it’s a yellow. It looks a yellow but close up it is a nasty tackle and he is very fortunate to only get a yellow. If he had got a red he could not have complained. It’s late and he has hit him with the studs. In real time the referee has not seen it as clearly as we have on the replays.”

GALLAGHER’S VERDICT: Wrong decision

MATCH: Sunderland v …

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