Kungreke Roy Keane sier; "I worked with Yates at Forest, really nice kid, but every week somebody touches him he goes down," said Keane. "He goes down far too easily. For such a decent lad, he needs to cut that out of his game."
Fellow pundit Jamie Redknapp also sided with Maddison over the incident, adding: "It’s not a lot. Yates is like that, he tries to get into players’ faces, a bit like [Paul] Gascoigne and Vinnie Jones many years ago."