Keith Hackett: Everton can no complaints over Michael Keane red v West Ham, admits imbalance
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Keith Hackett has insisted that Everton and Frank Lampard can have no complaints about Michael Keane’s red card against West Ham.
The ex-FIFA referee did admit there was a sense of imbalance, with Aaron Cresswell also deserving of a red card.
Lampard did complain, but Hackett suggested that Keane didn’t change after being booked and should have been taken off.
“It was two yellows,” he said speaking exclusively to Goodison News.
“This is where it’s imbalanced isn’t it, the Cresswell incident, you can’t let that one go.
“Let’s go back, Everton have some pretty awful decisions, but whatever the case, it doesn’t rule out the fact that he should have gone.
“Michael Keane gets a yellow card, he’s not changing his style of play – there’s a point at which, you say is this a point you bring him off the avoid a red card?
“I would suggest to Frank Lampard that could he have influenced it given that he was walking a tightrope?”
Imbalance.
Keane probably did deserve to be sent off, we can’t complain about that.
The major issue here is the clear sense of bias towards clubs in and around the top six of the Premier League.
How on earth Cresswell wasn’t sent off is still beyond us, and even Hackett admitted that the left-back should have been walking.
You can get all of the apologies in the world, but it won’t change the fact that Everton have been cheated on more than one occasion in recent months.
Embarrassing.
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