Wasn't there what looked like an apology in the 2nd half. If THB did say something, he'd have been better advised to do nowt and leave it as one person's word against the other and receive the benefit of the doubt. An apology reduces doubt.
The latter, and let's be honest, no self respecting football manager should want to go through at the expense of the better team over almost 4 hours of football.
Job done. Nice.
Will be an interesting few days though: spygate outcome, and a suggestion on talksport that the ref will be reporting THB for his comment to Ayling.