Pope John XXIII
Vital Football Legend
I wonder if the ref got confused.
When he blew, CHO stopped and then Diaz grabbed the ball and threw it back into the penalty area.
On the restart, he saw one of the match balls in the area and guessed Liverpool had possession.
If so, I’m utterly and irrefutably raging at CHO.
Why did he allow Diaz to do what he wanted…standing there like a little baby, sucking his thumb.
Sack the players, I say.
Take them off there pedal stools.
He's meant to be an elite, professional premier league referee and he has VAR and assistants miked up to him. It's not a hard rule to remember or follow. He even had Morgan Gibbs-White telling him he was wrong, but the prick is so arrogant he dismissed him. You can see Morgan with head in hands in disbelief.
You cannot blame our players for failing to anticipate an experienced top level referee simply not following the rules of the game, nor expect our players to do their job for them as with Toney.
Much made of our players not pointing out what Toney did, but we've all seen the arrogance of these referees- he would have just ignored them as he ignored MGW yesterday