No he only bottles them one way. If he bottled all decisions I might disagree with him but at least it would be fair. Jesus and Rodri at other end he'd have given it straight away. Rodri commits a hold when on a yellow, sorry its a second and your off.What about Partey‘s wrestling move any rules in there saying that wasn’t another yellow card, it’s bollocks, Oliver bottles all the big decisions
The City+ commentary also said Johnny, Johnny Stones was definitely offside and couldn't understand why VAR was taking so long to ascertain Johnny, Johnny Stones was offside because they could see Johnny, Johnny Stones was definitely offside...Just watched it again on City+, the commentary for the penalty is as follows, from 8:12:
" Ramsdale's spilt it, De Bruyne's brought down, penalty!.. no, what's Michael Oliver given? What's he given Michael Oliver?... Well it looked like a foul on De Bruyne, what's he given Michael Oliver?...He's given a free kick to Arsenal and not a penalty to City. Well I am not sure what he thinks has just happened there? Andy?... It's looks as though he's insinuating De Bruyne has... stepped across..., yeh... I can see Partey has just got his foot in there, and De Bruyne's has...yes I can see why, but initially, yeh, I can see it's the right decision, and in fact it's a very, very good decision because you can see the initial thought is penalty, and I think everyone of us thought it was, but, looking at it, he's correct...Well in reality what happened was De Bruyne went to hit the ball into the back of the net, after Ramsdale's spilt it, Partey came in to stop De Bruyne, De Bruyne's took a swing to where he thought the ball was and kicked Partey, and the two of them then fell over. So it is one of those where Michael Oliver has the gut instinct that it was the attacker that caused the collision, rather than the defensive midfielder, and it's the reason Andy felt it wasn't a penalty, "
I still think Oliver was very biased to Arsenal, but unfortunately I have to agree with the City commentary on the early penalty.
No, that was ClattenburgNo he only bottles them one way. If he bottled all decisions I might disagree with him but at least it would be fair. Jesus and Rodri at other end he'd have given it straight away. Rodri commits a hold when on a yellow, sorry its a second and he's off.
And before anyone says you don't know that this is the ref that gave a penalty against Sterling (when he was at City against Spurs) for handball when Sterling was outside the area and it hit his back.
My bad, all the shithouses blur into oneNo, that was Clattenburg
Exactly. Add in Taylor, Atwell etc etc etcMy bad, all the shithouses blur into one
Why have you posted that six times on one page ? The pic of the non pen that isExplain pillock
It will be Kavanagh after his (awful) performance in the derby which favoured the red neighbours.
They're not speaking to the ref before the initial decision, but surely there's some communication before the VAR decision or is the on field ref just stood there wondering what's happening like the rest of the people in the stadium?Some people clearly believe all sorts of people are whispering in the refs ear but IF you believe what they say the protocol is, then there’s no discussion between referees and VARs before he makes a live decision.
The VAR doesn’t have a ongoing live communication with the onfiejd officials. He can hear everything they are saying to each other. But needs to press a button to get involved. In a case like this he decided there was no obvious error ( even if he personally thought it was a probably a penalty ) so they’re would have been no communication between the two.
I think it's mad that our refs are interpreting shielding a ball as only about being within playing distance of the ball. That is lunacy.
Imagine this interpretation leading to all kinds of new desparate lunges from defenders, jumping into or in front of attackers under the banner of "shielding", just because they may or may not be deemed within playing distance of the ball!
Shielding of course is a bona fide way of protecting the ball but please don't try and tell us what partey did can ever be construed as shielding.
It was a desperate lunge into kevs space to prevent him pulling the trigger on a shot.
Clear penalty
They're not speaking to the ref before the initial decision, but surely there's some communication before the VAR decision or is the on field ref just stood there wondering what's happening like the rest of the people in the stadium?