Blues boss Paul Lambert says Town could appeal against the red card shown to skipper Luke Chambers during this afternoon’s 3-2 victory over Leeds at Portman Road.
Chambers was dismissed for the first time for Town for a foul on Whites striker Kemar Roofe, who subsequently hit the resultant penalty over the bar, and was sent off by referee Gavin Ward.
Under a 2016 rule change players committing accidental fouls that deny a goalscoring opportunity should be cautioned rather than dismissed. However, what a referee deems a deliberate foul still incurs a red card. Chambers’s foul looked more a tangle of feet than a conscious attempt to bring down Roofe.
"I’d like to get that clarified and see where that is,” Lambert said when asked whether he felt his skipper had been treated harshly.
"I’d have to see what actually happens, whether it’s a tangle of legs or Roofe’s offside or he’s not offside, I’d have to see it.
"If they get given a penalty, that should be the punishment. To send him off is a bit harsh, if it is double jeopardy I think it’s wrong. I don’t know the referee’s take on it.”
Is an appeal against the dismissal, which as it stands will see Chambers miss the opening game of next season’s League One campaign, possible? "Yes, if that’s the case, then I think we’d have to look at that.”
The red card was Chambers's third of his career, his second for former club Nottingham Forest having come seven years ago.