Treadmore
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Not quite, they could have applied no sanction:...so they reduced his ban to the minimum possible withon the Regulations
Regulation_19.11.13...the Disciplinary Panel may apply sanctions less than 50% of the lower end entry sanctions specified in Appendix 2, including in appropriate cases no sanction.
While not explicitly, the Panel are in the passages quoted fundamentally disagreeing with the RC report;
After quoting the referee's report, the panel said:They disagreed with the view of the report in that they said Ashton destabilised Watson.
That accords with the footage, which we have viewed at full speed and in slow motion.
I think it is a bit of a stretch to take the Panel's judgement and interpret that as being they thought it should not have been a red card: they could have applied no ban at all and they could have said nothing or something less positive about the referee's report.
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