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Published 22:46 27 Dec 2017 GMT
Updated 10:21 28 Dec 2017 GMT
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Dwight Gayle knocks the ball away from goal and across Danilo and goes down waiting for a foul that never came.
The ref saw it, most people saw it coming a mile off, and the Newcastle player was brandished a yellow card instead of a penalty with 15 minutes to go.
And, as indisputable as it was, we've heard worse from managers after incidents like this, coming out and defending the indefensible.
But Rafa Benitez wasn't in the mood to tolerate any of that nonsense.
Asked afterwards if he thought it was a foul, the Spaniard shook his head as the question was being asked and simply replied:
"No. I don't think so."It was as easy as that. Gayle was in the wrong. Newcastle had no reason to feel aggrieved and the manager drew a firm line under it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yPR7WlhHOA It would've been easier to be vague about, mischievous, talk about more general hard-done-by points. Benitez wasn't interested. Other managers should learn from him.
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