But Hoddle accepts that if Elleray views the video and decides he was too lenient with Mauricio Taricco, after a horror tackle on Thomas Gravesen went unpunished, then he will live with that too.

Hoddle said: "That’s the way it is, I’ll accept that. But the referee has agreed to have a look at the video."

Elleray came under fire from both managers after an amazing Premiership match saw Spurs hang on to a point with nine men.

Hoddle said: "I will appeal, and after talking to the referee, he has agreed to have a look at the video. He told me he does that anyway."

Everton manager Walter Smith claimed Elleray missed completely "the worst tackle of the match" when Taricco’s lunge at Gravesen put the Everton man in hospital and out of the game for at least a month with a badly gashed shin.

Smith also claimed that a strike from Niclas Alexandersson in the first half should have been allowed.

Hoddle was fuming afterward at the red cards for Poyet and Doherty in the second half.

He also disputed the decision against Doherty that led to Everton’s penalty equaliser through Duncan Ferguson after Darren Anderton had put the Londoners ahead in the first half.

But Hoddle was honest enough to admit that Taricco was lucky not to be sent off for his nasty tackle on Danish midfielder Gravesen.

Hoddle said: "I told Taricco at half-time that I was unhappy with his challenge and a lot of people in football would also have been unhappy with it. There was no excuse for it.

"But there is not a cat in hell’s chance that we should have finished with nine men. To get two red cards for those tackles was wrong. I have seen plenty of bad tackles in my time, so to get two straight red cards for those tackles was disappointing.

"As for our performance with nine men, it was a magnificent show of character. That was the sort of game this side would have lost last season."

Hoddle criticised the decision to dismiss Poyet for a tackle on Steve Watson. He said: "It was no more than a booking for a stupid, lazy leg stuck out. Certainly not a red card and Doherty’s tackle, I felt, was a good one."

Smith added: "We actually played better and made more chances when it was 11 against 11. It’s always hard when a team string players across their box and don’t come out. You have to make all the running, and we didn’t do that very well."