Daly Red Card Is Rescinded

Hartlepool United striker Jon Daly has had his red card from Pools defeat at Chester City on Friday night rescinded after Pools appealed the decision.

Pools sent the FA an enchanced video thanks to ITV after Pools boss Danny Wilson was left fuming following Dave Artell’s dying duck impression. Today the FA have ruled the sending off was ‘wrongful’.

After the game Chester boss Mark Wright commented:

“Right under our noses, he’s thrown an elbow and hit him. If you lead with the elbow then that is what happens. Whether he’s thrown it intentionally I don’t know but the linesman’s seen it that way.”

But Danny Wilson fumed to the Hartlepool Mail:

“I think it was a very harsh sending off, the referee was on the wrong side to see what happened, it was more the linesman’s decision, but it was down to the player conning the referee.

In 30 years in football I have never seen that kind of thing live. I have seen it on television but never in person. It would be nice to get him on television and see what he says – “It was a big right-hander?” I doubt it.

We will wait and see just how he conducts himself in the press.”



Big Jon is now free to face Darlington in Saturday’s derby match at Victoria Park.