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Former Scotland winger Pat Nevin says referee Craig Pawson鈥檚 decision not to send Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo off against Crystal Palace would have been in his mind when dismissing Leicester鈥檚 Jamie Vardy against Stoke.

The England striker was shown a red card after 28 minutes for a two footed challenge on Mame Diouf, drawing comparisons to a challenge by Rojo for which the defender was given a yellow card.

鈥淲e all looked at it and thought it was a definite stick-on of a red card for Rojo, and he鈥檚 thought to himself, well I can鈥檛 make that mistake,鈥� Nevin said.

鈥淗ad he got yellow you鈥檇 have said, fair enough.

鈥淟etter of the law and when you鈥檝e got that pressure of what you haven鈥檛 done in the Manchester United game, there鈥檚 no surprise whatsoever the referee has called it as a sending off,鈥� he added.

This clip is from 5 live Sport, Saturday 17 December 2016.