If you call the Shelvey tackle a red, then you should call Van Persie's a red as well. The intent looked the same, and the tackle itself was more or less the same. The only difference is that Shelvey hit a guy head on who was down, and the impact appeared heavier due to the circumstance (which it was, but once again only due to the fact that Evans was down as well...two-footed no less). When Van Persie got Suso, he was upright, and tumbled in a way that certainly didn't look as severe. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to justify a sending off in one case, but not the other.
The penalty was extremely weak too.
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