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It should have been a penalty!
A fan's view by Brian Bull: During the second half of today's game, Hereford appeared to have a great shout for a penalty, when John Grant had his shirt tugged by Stevenage defender Justin Gregory. When he started his run into the box, an opposing player grabbed onto Grant's shirt. Grant then seemed to 'shrug off' the defender, although he did so with the slight use of his arm.
Grant, after managing to keep his footing following the first incident, then rounded the ex-Sunderland stopper, Lionel Perez, but during the course of this, had his ankle 'tapped' by the 'keeper, which forced Grant to the ground.
It seemed that everybody in the stadium was sure that the referee would blow his whistle and point to the spot, but he thought otherwise, and gave a free-kick to Stevenage. Why did he penalise John Grant? Nobody seems to know. We can only presume that he only saw Grant use his arm after having his shirt tugged.
This was only one of many seemingly poor decisions made by referee Mr. J. Tatton, who had what must have been one of the worst performance by a referee at Edgar Street for some time.