Barce v Arse

Congratulations to Barcelona for winning the European Cup tonight. Hard lines to Arsenal. As I write, on the telly they are still arguing the toss about the refereeing decisions. The logic of the red card escapes me. The red card sanction exists to punish a team who have benefitted from foul play which denies a goal. If in fact a goal is scored it seems perverse still to issue the punishment and even more perverse to chalk off the goal (my wife thinks it is 'chopped off' - and there's a certain logic to that). Arsene, as usual in defeat, talks direct from a hole in his Arsene when he complains about Barcelona's equaliser being offside. If Eto'o was offside then it was by about the width of the proverbial baw-hair. It is quite unreasonable to complain about that.