It has emerged that the F.A.'s decision to slap a violent conduct charge on Crystal Palace's defender Claude Davis came after match referee, R. Booth, viewed subsequent video evidence and claimed to have missed the incident during the game but would have awarded a red card and penalty based on the video showing Davis' elbowing of City main man Roger Johnson.
Quite how he missed the incident at the time is beyond me as the video shows him in the perfect position and looking directly at the player. He probably also didn't help himself by allegedly infroming Crystal Palace that he saw nothing malicious in the challenge at the game if Palace boss Neil Warnock is to be believed.
Meantime, Davis himself is not expected to appeal aganst the charge and accept a likely 3 match ban which ends his season, his loan to Palace from Derby, and starts his summer holidays early ... on full pay of course!
Justice is being done but it remains to be seen whether it could also work against Cardiff. It was City appealing to the F.A. that helped produce this charge which ironically will see Davis miss Palace's last game of the season - at home to City's promotion rivals Sheffield United.
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