I think this may be a decision Mike Noble clarified on MFR yesterday. The MFR commentator was talking about the blatant passback and MN clarified that because the passback was as a result of a challenge, the passback rule did not apply. I cant say I understand the ins and outs of it, but thats pretty much what Mike said.
A lot of fans shouted for this - understandable - I did. If an indirect free kick had been given for it, it would have been an incorrect decision IMVHO. I actually though Tumilty had a good game yesterday - aside from the free kicks he gave for what were very light challenges. He did seem pretty balanced though. Motherwell got some free kicks from challenges which looked pretty light - but so did we. Motherwell were the better side over the 90 minutes. I thought they looked pretty impressive - especially at the back.
(Queue furry of red dots...)