Carra wouldn't have gone down like a sac of spuds

Whilst Crouch held his hand up and said he has deserved the red card, he made sure he got a little dig in against Mikel, plus the obligatory 'foreigners can't stay on their feet' line.

Crouch said "There are no excuses for the tackle I made but if the referee had pulled the foul up when he should have done it wouldn’t have happened. What I’m thinking is if you go in on Frank Lampard or John Terry would they roll around like Obi Mikel did?

I don’t think they would have done. Would someone like Carra have gone down like that? I think it’s safe to say that he wouldn’t. Foreign players have brought a lot to our game but that’s something you don’t want to see. I didn’t catch him but he’s gone down like he’s been shot."