In response to Everton’s MOTD comment, Micah Richards shares a text exchange with Tarkowski.

Tarkowski “meant to hurt,” according to Richards. Mac Many were incensed by Allister Tarkowski’s brutal challenge at Liverpool because neither referee Sam Barrott nor his VAR team could end up issuing a red card. Micah Richards, who knows the Everton defender personally, said he has had multiple text exchanges with him following past incidents in which he was only given a yellow card in an interview with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer on The Rest is Football podcast (3 April, 3m).

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