Craig Pawson theme with Everton continues as Liverpool facts emerge
The dust is settling on the 243rd Merseyside Derby but as the wounds remain raw for beleaguered Blues who are still fuming, the question needs to be asked: "what is the problem with Craig Pawson and Everton?"
Manager Sean Dyche said he thought it was an “incredible” decision not to show Liverpool’s Ibrahima Konate a second yellow card, adding: “I think a lot of people who were here today would be stunned it was not a second yellow, including their manager who couldn’t wait to get him off.”
Captain James Tarkowski said: “For me it didn’t feel like a real fair game,” while his centre-back partner Jarrad Branthwaite said the decision to give a second booking to Konate was “clear” and “a blatant yellow,” bemoaning that “there’s no consistency throughout the refereeing.”
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Complaints centred around Pawson’s failure to send Konate off and despite Liverpool having four players red carded already in the Premier League this season, a third of the their top flight total in eight years under Jurgen Klopp, curiously he hasn’t given any of their players their marching orders in any of the 37 matches he’s taken charge of.
Such leniency is in stark contrast to his record with Everton as the 44-year-old has now dismissed five of their players in just 24 games, the highest number of any club he has officiated on.
Ashley Young joins Idrissa Gueye, who was also given an early bath for two bookings in the 5-2 home defeat to Arsenal on October 22, 2017 that cost Ronald Koeman his job and Fabian Delph, who suffered the same fate in the 3-2 win at Watford on February 1, 2020. Meanwhile, despite
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