There’s an argument to be made that Konate not getting a second was consistent. I wouldn’t, as booting the ball away isn’t as serious as a foul, but you could argue it.
That keeper thing, it’s not that it’s not a foul, it’s that they have never been given and keepers have been doing that for years.
Then you get an outcry over one first weekend of the season, then I think one actually got given the next week, and now we are back to not giving them.
What that shows to me is that prem refs are reacting to what they see in the media, and that’s not a good thing.
As for whether it’s a pen, it is or it isn’t, but decide which it is and stick to it. I don’t care if every instance is a pen or if keepers get away with it, as long as it’s the same for every team every week.
Remember when Liverpool tried highlighting the poor standard of officiating and holding officials to account and everyone else said ‘Naa leave out, they’ve said sorry havnt they? Move on, what more do you want’.
Lol where did you see those comments, everything I saw was people across the board bemoaning the fact that the fa will issue an apology and just carry on as usual
I do not, refresh my memory please
Replay anyone?
We’re all lucky!
I’m convinced at this point that we could have randoms ref and be better. It’s so fucking embarrassing.
City have been getting away with those sorts of tackles for years, free kick only, never a card. The ball was going through to van dijk anyway
Konate 2nd would have been very soft
Player throws himself down, minimal contact and had lost possession anyway.
If they are yellows going to be 10 every game
Konate literally kicked Beto’s shin. Minimal contact my arse.
It’s still a yellow.
Do any of these incidents ever help out smaller clubs ? Just always seems to benefit the bigger clubs
Needs a replay I think
REPLAY!!
And VAR being too heavy handed with the Saliba penalty, after the on field team said he was too close to the initial header
PGMOL should just be left on delivered at this point, apologies mean nothing
So… when is Liverpool going to offer to replay the match?
No team had 2 yellow cards vs Liverpool for 8 years.
Suddenly all the shit happens a couple weeks ago and suddenly this happens?
Refs do not seem objective at all.
Silence from Norway
This season in particular it seems like there’s way more refereeing incompetence and apologies. Seriously something has to be done because we might get away with it this time, then next time we’ll get a red card for something completely dumb, and then another team gets it.
Meanwhile what repercussions do refs get? Good process, I’m sowwy uwu, probably taken off for several matches, at worst maybe never reffing that particular team’s games anymore. I get that reffing isn’t an easy job and human error still happens despite the tech, but surely it shouldn’t be this bad.