Given that he references awful tackles where Cardiff players have stayed on the pitch I would presume his reference points are the furore around Bennett on Sane and to a lesser extent Arter against Newcastle. I say that because 1) I can't think of any others and 2) I doubt Crooks would have spent a moment watching us unless we were playing against a Premier League team.

I think there has been some reasonable comment on this board about the amount of time other teams spend ganged up in the faces of referees at certain incidents and we have perhaps overplayed the offended innocents watching our response that got one of our key players needlessly cautioned.

But to judge Crooks by his own standards you would expect this man of principle to call out Chelsea the next time they surround a referee given the horrendous assault that Jorginho committed on Sigurdsson yesterday whilst staying on the pitch should he name any of their players in his team of the week.