Sheffield Wednesday continued their push for promotion to the Premier League on Friday evening securing a credible goalless draw with Hull City at The KC Stadium.
Both sides had chances to win the match with Sam Clucas and Curtis Davies going close for the hosts and Fernando Forestieri was a whisker away from scoring for Wednesday before his dismissal in stoppage time for an alleged second bookable offence for diving following a challenge by Tigers defender Michael Dawson.
With another valuable Championship point in the bag, a number of disgruntled Owls fans took to Twitter to give their views on the match’s main talking point, the dismissal of their star striker Forestieri.
So snodgrass dives. No booking. Forestieri fouled, gets sent off. Discuss. @thefa. Pathetic. #swfc
— mvrander (@mvrander) February 26, 2016
Shocking referee decision for FF. Dawson apologized for the foul. How can refereeing standards like that be a acceptable ? #swfc
— WarOfTheMonsterTruck (@SheffWedWOTMT) February 26, 2016
Don't know how many times I've said about players having to jump out of the way of dangerous tackles. The recklessness is the foul #swfc
— Richard Fidler 🏴 (@richardfidler) February 26, 2016
That referee should apologise for that rubbish decision to send FF off. FA need to do something. Really poor. #swfc
— Stephen Rigley (@srigley) February 26, 2016
Dear @FA. Please tell me why referees can't be interviewed after a game following decisions which the whole world can see is wrong? #swfc
— Andy McElwaine (@andymcelwaine) February 27, 2016
Nothing short of disgraceful referee…. How the F with Dawson's reaction can you give a 2 nd yellow … #SWFC
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) February 26, 2016
The striker’s second dismissal in a week means that Forestieri will miss The Owls next two matches against Rotherham United and Brighton & Hove Albion unless Wednesday lodge a successful appeal against last night’s dismissal.
