agree completely with the red card.
I can also understand what the pundits said, that there was no malice and they’d have gone in for it too, but that’s the changing game now. It doesn’t have to be malicious, you have to control yourself to not simply not be malicious but also to have proper regard for the safety of a fellow player, and to realise (even in the heat of the moment in a game) that what you are about to do, be it a raised foot, or a swinging arm, or a ‘committed’ (euphemism) tackle – that if it endangers the opponent then you’ve committed a sending off offence.
What was interesting (and i can’t remember the game) but there was a game the following day i think where there was a similar incident but no contact made, no injury, no foul called – but the intent or lack of it was exactly the same, the lack of thought for the safety of the opponent was the same, but the sanction totally different (ie none) – and at the time the radio pundits were saying that Liverpool should use the incident to appeal the decision on the basis of consistency!