Red mist descends over pundits but Roy keen to back the ref

Before kick-off, ITV gave us a montage of high beam gymnastics.

A finely balanced tie, you see.

By the end, Adrian Chiles couldn’t have been more apoplectic if the Turkish referee had run amok and torched the entire gymnasium. But still he found a high horse to climb on.

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