And, out trots Hackett with an excuse for Tierney!
Talk about the thin BLUE line for the Police, how about the thin BLACK line between refs?!
I quote:
“There was no question in my mind that Paul Tierney contributed positively to an outstanding Premier League game.
Probably one of the best games I’ve seen in the Premier League, hugely entertaining. The goal from Salah was just unbelievable.
Like all referees, you get criticism in relation to the big decisions. The big decision on Milner was clearly a yellow card offence, no question. In not applying a yellow card and Liverpool going up the other end to score, that compounded the whole thing. That’s what upset Pep Guardiola.
He’s got it wrong. We say to referees don’t guess. In it, I wonder whether he saw Henderson and Milner together and with that he didn’t actually get the correct outcome.
I want to balance this, Tierney is in top form, he’s a top-class referee. His integrity cannot be questioned.
He’s in a level of doubt about the incident. He cannot re-run it through his mind. That level of doubt is sufficient to say ‘I’m not going to issue a yellow and then red card’.
He knows if he did issue a red card and got it wrong then the outcome is even more wrong in that sense.”
In effect, HE WAS DEFINITELY WRONG, but maybe he was too blind, or in such a bad position, that neither he nor any of the other THREE OFFICIALS saw that it was MILNER who put his leg out as far and as high as it would go, and maybe he thought it was Henderson????
WTAF???
This shit gets even more embarrassing when they try to make excuses…
Wasn’t sure if it was Milner or Henderson, so did NOTHING! Thank goodness it wasn’t a bad injury (landed on his head and twisted his neck!)!
These fucks are LAUGHABLE in their attempts to try to cover each other’s tracks!