Thanks for nothing, Mike

I STOPPED to help a bloke who had something wrong with his car the other week.

I got the bonnet open, found the problem and got him going again.

As a thank you, he let down my tyres.

I'm sure the Good Samaritan didn't end up in Kwik-Fit.

The tale came back to me last Sunday lunchtime, when Mike Dean paid Swansea back for their good deed by awarding Cardiff the dodgiest penalty since Diana Ross at the 1994 World Cup.

If anyone has been on planet Zog this week, Dean's bonce got cut by a £1 coin which was chucked from the aptly named Bob Bank during the Welsh derby.

Garry Monk held the referee up and waved on Richie Evans, the Swansea physio, who treated the wound.

Dean was seriously upset, flapping his arm in frustration and then showing the damage to the Sky cameras just in case anyone had missed what had happened.

Happy days, I thought.

Swansea City were 1-0 up at the time thanks to Nathan Dyer and now the ref had been clonked by one of Cardiff's lot.

We can't lose, can we?

We didn't, of course — but it felt like we did.

Maybe Dean was still seeing stars, or maybe he just didn't fancy the walk back to the car if Cardiff had lost.

Maybe he just made a dreadful misjudgement.

Whatever the reason, Dean dropped a clanger which went down like a pint of lemon juice on the away end.

Ashley Williams was done for standing in the same postcode as Ross McCormack and, after Dorus de Vries got nowhere near another penalty, Cardiff had a point.

Not that I'm blaming Dorus — he had a fine game and made a couple of great saves.

No, the loss of two big points last weekend was thanks to McCormack's willingness to tumble and the referee's amazing decision to give him a spot-kick.

Dave Jones's attempt to claim that Dean got the decision dead right just rubbed salt in Swansea wounds.

Does anyone think he would have said the same thing if the incident had occurred in the opposite penalty box? Didn't think so.

Speaking of what went at the other end, am I the only who noticed Paul Parry whack Jordi Gomez in the calf in the first few minutes?

That was ten times more of a penalty than the one which saved Cardiff's blushes.