At the other end, a similar offence earned Billy Twelvetrees his second penalty before the referee continued to take centre stage, sending Carl Fearns to the sin-bin for killing one of Gloucester's more promising moves, and showing Matt Garvey yellow after he came close to decapitating Gareth Evans with a tackle that might interest the citing officer.
He was sent to the sin-bin after 21 minutes for taking out the second row Alistair Hargreaves in the air – an offence that earned Saracens a permanent one-man advantage in the quarter-final at Ulster when Jared Payne was sent off – but yellow seemed the appropriate colour with Stevens also having a hold of his colleague.
A suspension for headbutting Luke Dorn - an offence which earned Sinfield the first red card of a senior career which started with his debut in 1997 - in the league meeting with Castleford last month looked as though it might deny him the chance to end his wait.
And most recently, the Ballon d'Or winner scored two penalties in his team's cup semi-final win at the Vicente Calderon Stadium earlier this month, before inadvertently creating headlines by being hit on the head by a lighter thrown from the crowd as he walked towards the tunnel at half-time - an offence which earned Atletico the comically small fine of £492 (600 euros).
As pointed out by a couple of Twitter users, The Sun in particular seems to have taken an intense dislike to the Manchester City midfielder, publishing various stories criticising him for such inexcusable offences as "earning a lot of money" and "shopping at Primark".
It only takes retrospective action against unseen red card offences and not offences that might have earned only a booking.
Others were charged with meting out an illegal punishment, since Mr Hung's offence should have earned merely a reprimand.
Luis Suárez has apologised to Giorgio Chiellini "and the entire football family" for biting the Italy defender, an offence that has earned the Uruguayan a four-month ban from football, and effectively admitted he lied to Fifa when contesting the charge handed down by the game's governing body.
As I mentioned on Twitter last night, it would have been interesting if Webb had recourse to sinbins - if he was able to tell the Dutch that the next yellow card offence would have earned 15m on the sidelines, it might have made a difference.
Drug offences near schools earn stiffer sentences, and in the inner city you are usually close to a school.Leaders dividedAl Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, two veteran civil-rights leaders, are giving their full-throated support to the "Jena Six".
