So Anthony Taylor gets demoted for a Championship game last weekend after a big error in the PL the week before, makes another mistake in a Championship game, and now is given a huge game back in the PL this weekend.
I really don’t understand how this makes sense at all.
If he was eased back into the PL after at least a month, it would be understandable.
To be clear, though he has made so many mistakes, I’m not saying that he has to lose his job or referee the championship for the remainder of his career. But surely bringing him back so soon is a mistake?
Especially in a match where Chelsea is playing - he’s known for making terrible decisions against them for years, and now the PL throws him back into a game of such magnitude?
It doesn’t make sense for the PL and Anthony Taylor. I’m sure that he will feel the pressure come Sunday.
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Two negative makes positive. I don’t know what they are thinking.
It’s hard to do match fixing if the expert isn’t on the pitch. How is this even a question anymore? What else needs to be SEEN and HEARD?
He wasn’t demoted, is why. Every top flight ref has to do a Championship game on occasion and it had been five seasons since the last time he had.
Err, OP are you new to English football, any mistake, no matter how stupid or ludicrous, made by a PL referee is fixed completely by a week up in Sunderland. They return like shining crusaders of truth, their sins and past errors erased, ready to bestow us with their perfect professional selves once more. It’s something to do with the 6 hour car journey I think. Their incompetence drains away by travelling north.
Why shouldn’t he. VAR was to blame not him. He makes decisions at game speed. VAR has a luxury of rerunning various angles at various speeds. Yet he was the one punished? Nonsensical.
I mean no teams should get special treatment.
By your logic, he should ref a game like wolves vs fulham but why do they deserve a lower quality of officiating than others.
The game should have been picked by random, and i hope it was. This IS him being eased back into the prem, a game as important as any other.
That is an excellent point. Well said. Made me check my attitude about what games are “more important” than others. Of course no games are any more/less important than others.
But ensuring Taylor doesn’t ref a Chelsea game is ensuring no-one gets special treatment.
As whoever is playing against Chelsea that day is bound to get it.
This is not him being eased back into it, being eased back into it would be a cup game in a few weeks time, not immediately back into a huge fixture
If anything, a cup game is much more important than a league game, since the result of poor officiating could eject a team from the entire competition.
If he is deemed fit to ref Luton vs Wolves, then he’s fit to ref city vs chelsea. This whole attitude of “I’m more important so I deserve the good refs” is disgusting.
I could understand if it’s a derby or a fixture with real history, but the only thing to note about this game is how much money these clubs have. They’re not even competing in the same echelons of the table
I see what you’re saying but the reality is that some fixtures genuinely are bigger and more important.
You’re allowed to dislike that but it’s still true.
A referee with such a controversial history simply shouldn’t be in charge for this game because then it adds more fuel to the fire as far as corruption and incompetence goes.
If he makes a bad call or a dubious decision that impacts the game that’s all anyone will talk about
This is 4D chess from the PL, they’re annoyed with Arsenal for his comments so they’ve assigned the most anti Chelsea referee they could find to ensure City win. (That not that’s unlikely without his help).
Second thoughts, it’s probably not that deep, they’re just inept.
So would it be ok if he managed Villa vs Fulham, or Palace vs Everton??
What makes Chelsea vs Man City so special, are their matches more special or more sacred than the rest of us rabble? Ffs
What do you mean “eased back”, like managing the last 10 minutes of a match one week, a half the next week, then maybe a full 90 minutes after that? Or are you just saying that the smaller teams don’t matter?
What makes Chelsea vs Man City so special, are their matches more special or more sacred than the rest of us rabble? Ffs
Sky TV think it’s more significant, that’s why that game is on tv and Villa v Fulham isn’t. If you’re wondering why, it’s likely because it will generate higher ratings. So it’s not just Sky that think it’s more significant, the audience do to.
What makes Chelsea Vs Man City significant is that he is from Manchester
Sometimes I really think they do this shit on purpose so that the drama that comes with it creates more views for the PL.
Because the PGMOL is corrupt
I’ve seen more people saying he was absolutely fine in the game in the Championship. His game vs Wolves the mistake was more VAR than him as well so I don’t get why he’s criticised as the call he gave probably is fine for a split second decision in his poisition.
But at the end of the day who do you think replaces him? There’s no massive pool of brilliant referees and the ones coming up are often worse.
Man city can make it look like an idiot gave them loads of oopsie poopsie calls.
Like they need it against chelsea…
Was it really even his error?
VAR didn’t even let him go look at the screen.
Should be VAR demoted, not him, if we’re basing it on the wolves error.
Jarred Gillet. Made some of the worst calls from being a VAR that I’ve ever seen.
Arsenal vs Crystal Palace 2019 was when I first heard his name.
And now he’s on var alongside Taylor again for this weekends game, hilarious
Money money moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I’m calling it now - he’s going to make some big blunders “unintentionally” and PGMOL will blame him.
I don’t know what the hell is wrong with the PL. Normally any referee who does such a big mistake must lose his job IMMEDIATELY.