Hey, it’s Sunday.
There aren’t many things in Arsenal’s point of view, but we’ve seen our old friend Michael Oliver again. In the FA Cup tie between Crystal Palace and Milwall, Liam Roberts (Milwall ‘S Keeper) challenged Jean-Philippe Mateta and striked the head with the stud. Here video -It’s not pretty.
The striker of the palace needed oxygen, and then transferred to the hospital and had 25 stitches with injuries (severe feet in the left ear). He will clearly stop behavior for a while. And when the incident happened, Michael Oliver did nothing. He played. And as you can see in the header image, his view was not hidden in any way.
VAR intervention brought the right decision, Roberts’ red card, but what if it happens in the last round when this technology is not used? You need to ask serious questions about this person now. At best, he is experiencing serious problems with his eyesight. In the worst case, decision making cannot be explained, and in yesterday’s scenario, he was responsible for ensuring the safety of 100% athletes, especially Mateta.
I don’t want to make this about Arsenal, and it’s very difficult for the same referee to see how to publish a straight red card for ‘serious foul play’ after seeing the MYLES LEWIS-SKELLY trip to MYLES LEWIS-SKELLY. It cannot be accepted in any way.
In this blog, the current PGMOL referee crops have lost their time to turn off blind attention to serious foul play and violent challenges that can seriously injure the player. Despite the 25 needles, I think MATETA is all lucky that he’s experienced. It doesn’t neglect it, but the potential damage that metal studs can go straight and challenge with the head height, eye height, player is much worse than that.
For me, this challenge is rare, but it’s a product of an environment where players know that they can run away with objects in the football game. Perhaps Liam Roberts had a blood moment. But under the Premier League, the referee was instructed by the administration of Howard Webb, and there was no doubt that there should be very high standards about violent behavior or serious foul play (unless an 18 -year -old child played for Arsenal). Roberts made a terrible decision and would get a three -game ban (no longer). But Oliver made a terrible decision and will play the best game next week.
Given the so -called ‘the best referee of the UK’ that does not respond to terrible events, you should call it out and say that it is not enough. This challenge came from the same day as we learned about IFAB’s new decree. Where the referee can issue a corner I felt somewhat appropriate if the goalkeeper was holding the ball for more than 8 seconds. It is angry to focus on some violations at the cost of making more important decisions, but I like it. It provides an easy way to show them ‘authority’. The best way is to be good at work on a consistent basis.
The PGMOL referee can be sure that the ball will be the first to hold the ball for 0.5 seconds and crack down on the goalkeeper, but at the same time, the many unpleasant and dangerous tackle transformations of unpleasant and dangerous tackle will be blindly changed. Only the captain can talk to the referee regardless of the new rules that the captain introduced at the beginning of the season, delaying the ball.
I have a hard time judging, and a split decision is always difficult to determine exactly, but some are really easy and this was one of them. It is not unreasonable for people to ask questions about decision -making if they are willing to do red cards for travel, but they do not want to do the same for this challenge. And this event requires many questions about Michael Oliver and Howard Webb.
The best wish for Mateta, I hope he will recover quickly. There are people on great Sundays.
