Irrelevant.
It it when you want to protect and defend your teammates.
With all due respect, you are talking rubbish.
The players were rightly focusing on the attack the ref should have allowed to continue.
It's not as if I'm saying he would have been sent off if they reacted, but how could it possibly be a bad thing for teammates to defend one and other? Weird lad.
Because we were on the attack for fucks sake