There's been a lot of guff spouted about what Howard Webb saw or didn't see in the split second in which Mario Balotelli accidentally or deliberately stamped on Scott Parker's head on Sunday.
It's pretty clear from the video of the game that Webb did exactly what he's supposed to do. Balotelli shot and the ball rebounded violently off Parker, flying 20-30 metres away into the air. As soon as Webb realised the ball would be in the air for a moment, he glanced back at the melee of Balotelli, Parker and Luka Modric and would have seen a tangle of arms and legs as all three competed for the ball.
Webb pointed at the incident, a message that says, 'I'm aware of that incident and that there might be an injury but I'm playing on because I haven't seen a foul.' He then looked back in the direction of the ball as it landed and Man City's attack continued.
Really, people need to remind themselves that Webb did not have a slo-motion replay camera attached to his retinas. He saw it in real time. In real time you see a shot and a tangle of legs and bodies. Nothing else.
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