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But when you factor in the long delays while their players and staff argued this point with the officials, the further delays when their fans entered a Macc area and started fighting, their captain getting booked twice for dissent within seconds of each other - than I think a ban next year is...

Is it? Even though Macclesfield won? If Wythenshawe appeal that they were wrongly reduced to nine men, I guess that’s possible.

Having mulled this over, and followed the very interesting discussion on here, I have come to the conclusion that the referee got this call perfectly correct. There was an outside agent on the field of play. The referee must ensure that the outside agent leaves the field of play, which he did...

Yeah that's about right. There were two sendings off in quick succession but these highlights don't really show the first. It turns out it was the Macclesfield manager that pointed out to the assistant referee that Blue 17 (who'd just come on - Palma) had not been listed by Wythenshawe on the...

He came on late in the game. Let's hope he recovers his radar... (watch from the 9 minute mark).

No idea. There was a lot of confusion, argument and delay. Looked like the officials missed the issue initially, and once the assistant had realised it and drawn the ref’s attention to it, the ineligible player had been on the field with the ball in play - so I guess at that point, they had no...

...if Wythenshawe came back to win I assume you mean.

This happened at the Wythenshawe Town v Macclesfield FA Cup Extra Preliminary round tie yesterday. On 71 minutes, Wythenshawe introduced a sub that wasn’t named on the teamsheet. I don’t know who spotted the error but soon there was a long delay and a protracted discussion. The referee...