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Yalcouye and Franco

Are there any other close up angles of the penalty/sending off incident. I have been looking at the replay and that Cook set him up a beauty. Was it a penalty? Should Cook have been cautioned?
 
I thought it was a dive by Yalcouye and then a petulant reaction that gave the ref an easy decision to make.

Not his finest few minutes.
 
Are there any other close up angles of the penalty/sending off incident. I have been looking at the replay and that Cook set him up a beauty. Was it a penalty? Should Cook have been cautioned?
The highlights show the sending off incident but don't have a replay of the penalty claim just prior.

And Cook was booked for it
 
I thought it was a dive by Yalcouye and then a petulant reaction that gave the ref an easy decision to make.

Not his finest few minutes.
Spot on brother. Unprofessional all round (and yes, Cook is a cheating disgusting scumbag and yes he may not have made much or any contact, but everyone knows the risk you take with that pointless nonsense.)
 
Spot on brother. Unprofessional all round (and yes, Cook is a cheating disgusting scumbag and yes he may not have made much or any contact, but everyone knows the risk you take with that pointless nonsense.)
Quite. The irony of making such a fuss of Yalcouye’s dive and then diving like Jacques Cousteau.
 
Spot on brother. Unprofessional all round (and yes, Cook is a cheating disgusting scumbag and yes he may not have made much or any contact, but everyone knows the risk you take with that pointless nonsense.)

Funny thing I said on Twitter earlier that it reminded me of that time Warwick Davis filled Mike Tyson in.
 
I have no doubt that Yalcoure's leg was slightly clipped as he was going through. If he'd stumbled and fallen naturally, he might have got a penalty, or he might have kept going and got his shot away. Unfortunatley, he decided to 'help' the ref by diving in an exaggerated manner to emphasize the foul.
When I was training to be a ref at county level, we used to get FA demonstration videos in our evening meetings. I remember one about how to tell if fouls were genuine or not, and one obvious 'tell' in the video was the exaggerated dive.
That's what Yalcoure did.
 
I agree Yalcouye was a silly boy but it doesn't take a lot for refs to produce red cards for us. Darling last season should never have been sent off v Sheffield United but Wilder had a tantrum in front of the ref and he caved in. Go back to Luton away a few years back and Lansbury literally kicks Manning up in the air when the ball was dead, ref saw it but did nothing about it.

We get a bum deal with refs most of the time. It's infuriating.
 
I agree Yalcouye was a silly boy but it doesn't take a lot for refs to produce red cards for us. Darling last season should never have been sent off v Sheffield United but Wilder had a tantrum in front of the ref and he caved in. Go back to Luton away a few years back and Lansbury literally kicks Manning up in the air when the ball was dead, ref saw it but did nothing about it.

We get a bum deal with refs most of the time. It's infuriating.
I think we do.
The linesman certainly helped the ref and he made a very quick decision. I looked at the replay and it looked like Cook was putting his head down in a way that looked like he was going to push his head in to Yalcouhe. Yalcouhe took step forward and the rest is history. For me it was a penalty but then again the ref ignored the one a couple of minutes earlier. It stinks,
 

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