Dundee United fail to overturn Ryan Edwards' red card against Hearts
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‘Edwards knows what he’s doing but he’s killed his team’
Dundee United have lost their appeal against the red card shown to Ryan Edwards in Saturday's defeat at Hearts.
The Tannadice captain was sent off for a 29th-minute tackle on Andy Halliday.
With the case dismissed by a Scottish FA panel, he will now serve two-match suspension, which includes the weekend Scottish Cup tie against Kilmarnock.
Referee Nick Walsh initially played on but sent Edwards off after checking his monitor on the advice of video assistant referee Chris Graham.
The visitors were winning 1-0 at Tynecastle when their centre-back was dismissed but Hearts fought back against the 10 men to win 3-1.
"My initial reaction was that it's a really, really good tackle," United head coach Liam Fox said after the game.
"The referee said it was excessive force, I just thought it was a good tackle. Maybe I'm getting old, but that's a normal tackle in my day."
Hearts manager Robbie Neilson backed up Fox's view of the incident.
"He went in for the ball and it wasn't high," Neilson said. "I might be proved wrong, but I didn't think it was a red at the time."
United succeeded with an appeal against a VAR-assisted red card earlier this season when Tony Watt's dismissal against Motherwell in October was overturned.
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