I've been doing my reading - Liverpool are right and Howard Webb has no choice
Well. Luis Diaz, VAR and PGMOL - that is the only way we can start this, really. It is just a disgrace, the whole story from top to bottom.
This PGMOL statement, I'm having none of it. Their silence when it happened spoke louder than words - they knew they were in the wrong.
It is so laughable, it is ridiculous. And that's the best they could come up with? It is not on at all. Sorting it right there and then was as easy as getting in Simon Hooper's ear, telling him to stop play, calling it back and awarding Diaz's goal.
The on-field officials aren't totally exempt from criticism either. Normally the flag goes up later on, he was so quick on the draw he's quicker than John Wayne in the old westerns. He had his flag up so quickly.
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I've been doing my reading since. The club themselves are right - sporting integrity has been compromised. At the end of the day relieving the referees of duty for one or two games isn't enough, it could cost Liverpool the title. We see mistakes being made all the time and I'm sure they haven't been hit in the pocket, going away to the Middle East to ref a match the other day.
That's a whole separate matter, by the way. The fact that Darren England, Dan Cook and Michael Oliver were allowed under the governing body here to go to the Middle East and referee a game, that is an issue surely?
They should be punished properly to show people and referees that if they're not good enough, they'll be punished. It should be a month, two months, more for something that bad. Whatever it takes to get it properly done.
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