So referees' boss Keith Hackett has worked himself into a corner now. One can only assume that he is now spending Monday mornings phoning managers around the country for every mistake - some real and some perceived - to apologise. Now Jose Mourinho wants a cringing apology from the linesman who flagged Kalou offside on Saturday.
Let's set the issue of whether the assistant was right or wrong for the moment.
Rafael Benitez demanded an apology from Rob Styles earlier this season when Chelsea were awarded a penalty against Liverpool. Hackett made the phone call and Styles was dropped from the premiership panel into the refereeing wilderness.
Now Hackett will presumably do the same to Mourinho, prostrating himself before him and promising all kinds of retribution on the official who dared to make a mistake.
For God's sake, this is getting ridiculous. Of course referees try and eliminate mistakes from their game but it is impossible to get rid of them altogether. They happen in every match, probably 9 or 10, but usually they're not crucial. Sometimes, though, they are.
Here football has a choice. Live with it or change the game along the lines of cricket or American football where every decision is debated for a couple of minutes by a legal committee.
Welcome to the five-hour football match. Of course, this might just make the broadcasters very happy indeed.
As for the decision itself, it was very close. The BBC drew a line to show that he was onside. But how accurate is that line? I don't know. Does the BBC ever get anything wrong? Well they don't seem to be doing too well with phone in contests at the moment do they.
Oh yes, and Mourinho, who has declared himself well and truly above the laws of football, deserves to be punished for his childish diplay of petulance in hurling a video screen to the ground and then confronting referee Howard Webb on the field of play at the final whistle.
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