Its pathetic to be honest BUT the respect of match going fans means far less to him that the grief he’d have got from United & the FA for giving a decision in the first place for an incident that he didn’t see properly
Just like that Attwell last season who clearly got his decision wrong in the Caldwell/Tevez incident & so changed his reasons for the sending off
Bloody hell if I make a cock up when I ref (as I did on Saturday when I sent someone off for a second caution when I hadn’t previously booked em) I will hold my hands up & say I got it wrong & rectify the matter