Yellow ruins Lewis' golden day

I am not sure there is a more frustrating moment in football than when you get a foul given against you, after someone has actually kicked you.

‌This happened to Manchester City's Rico Lewis at the weekend. That was a second yellow card and off he went because VAR is not allowed to challenge a yellow card. He was daft getting a first yellow for dissent, but that mitigates the referee's error only slightly.

‌We know why every yellow cannot be checked. That way lies madness and two-hour-long matches, but surely a second yellow so wrongly flashed should elicit a quiet word in the referee's ear from the goggle-box watchers back at Stockley Park?

‌Without the first yellow, Lewis' day would have been remembered for his fabulous equalizer and, with 11 men on the pitch, maybe even a famous victory.

‌Young though he is, the wider cost of Lewis' initial outburst will not have been lost on his manager.

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