Cold comfort

The Football Association officially overturned Nedum Onuoha's red card on Friday, meaning that he won't face suspension. That's good, but still fairly small consolation. Precedent has been set recently for the replaying of games due to egregious officiating errors, but this was not a botched enforcement of the rules of the game, it was simply a heinously bad judgment call - meaning that no matter how unsuspended Onuoha is, a decision that was admittedly harsh probably cost Man City the game. (Having the extra player out there while trying to defend changes everything - it could have kept the ball away from Distin's hand, for one thing.) It's always good to see that football's governing bodies are willing to admit to mistakes, but it doesn't make the results of those mistakes much easier to swallow.