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3rd January 2019
11:51am GMT

Former Premier League official Mark Clattenburg has an interesting theory on why Shelvey escaped a red, suggesting that a well-rested Marriner would have sent the Newcastle player off.
"It was a very poor challenge from Jonjo Shelvey which could have caused severe injury to Paul Pogba," Clattenburg wrote in his Daily Mail column.
"Shelvey catches Pogba on the back of the knee with his studs showing with very little chance of playing the ball and clearly endangered the safety of his opponent.
https://twitter.com/paulpogba/status/1080598140447805442"Andre Marriner, who failed to recognise the severity of the challenge, has had a busy Christmas period.
"Fatigue of all the travelling and matches may have contributed in his failure to spot that this is a red card challenge.
"Pogba knows how bad the challenge was and goes in to gain some retribution later in the match on Shelvey, which failed to even get a yellow card."
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