Souness: 'Capoue should have seen red'

The French midfielder only received a yellow card for a "malicious" stamp on Wilfried Zaha, despite Taylor having a clear view of the incident. 

Speaking to 'Sky Sports', Souness claimed: "Capoue set out to hurt Zaha. Look where the referee is, what is he three, four yards away from it. This is bad when you see it.

"Look at the referee’s positioning. This is one of two things for the referee Anthony Taylor. He’s completely bottled it, look at where the ball is when he makes contact with Zaha’s Achilles. Now for the life of me, how does the referee not see that is a red card.

"It tells me one or two things, he’s completely bottled it or he doesn’t understand football. He is trying to hurt him badly. Normally when you damage your Achilles tendon badly, which Zaha was in real danger of doing there, you’re never the same player again. 

"Watch where the ball is when he makes contact with him. It’s ridiculous and the referee could not have a better view of it. You can’t just say he got it wrong, it’s not as if he got an obscure view, and it’s not as if it’s one of those is it or is it not a red card, that is 100 per cent a red card."

Jamie Redknapp concurred, saying: "The alarm bells for a referee is when a player goes sliding in, straight away red card.

"That one there, it is spiteful, it’s malicious and it’s so nasty. Those are the ones that can really damage you physically as a player."