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Koeman demands grappling clarity as Southampton boss speaks out on referees and penalties
SOUTHAMPTON manager Ronald Koeman believes referees should give penalties for players grappling at corners after the controversy involving Jon Moss in Leicester's draw with West Ham on Sunday.
Ronald Koeman's Southampton have been given six red cards by referees in the league this term
West Ham were awarded a penalty when Wes Morgan tangled with Winston Reid at an 84th-minute corner, though Leicester's appeals were dismissed after a similar 90th-minute incident involving Angelo Ogbonna and Robert Huth.
Koeman believes it needs to be all or nothing and said: "I think if you start to give penalties for that then it stops.
"The way is not to give one time a penalty and in the same game no penalty, because that's no consistency. What you need and what everybody needs (is consistency).
"Everybody knows if you take somebody in his shirt or like a rugby player, you take your man in the box, it's a penalty. If everybody knows then it stops.
"If one day it's a penalty and even in the same game next time it's not, that doesn't help or make it clear for everybody."