Surely a yellow cause they appealed....to be fair a pull back like that is a yellow card offence....stupid when already on a booking. Just goes to show that now more, minor, offences bring yellow cards they need to reassess the punishments and have different grades of punishment.
Have to agree Rich. When a slight pull back (and you're right, it was a yellow) gets the same treatment as some horrific tackles, there's something wrong.
That little contact almost never gets a yellow if everytime someone commits that small an offence a yellow was given we'd be playing 5 a side midway through the second half. And you just know that if that had been the other way round the card would have stayed in the refs pocket