28 Apr 2024 11:28:49
Hi all
I don’t know if this has talked about already but what was going on with the ref yesterday. He told the keeper to play on then when the keeper throws the ball out and Gakpo runs to score the ref blows up and tells the keeper to sit down brings the physio on. The keeper was literally pulling his socks up and not concentrating. This to me is a complete f**k from the ref yet again.
28 Apr 2024 12:46:53
It needs to be explained. And not by Dermot ‘Refs Do No Wrong’ Gallagher.
28 Apr 2024 13:21:10
Taylor messed up.
When he realised his mistake and went running over, I half expected him to whack the keeper on the head with a black pudding like the Ecky Thumpers on The Goodies to give him a head injury.
28 Apr 2024 13:47:52
It was all very strange. The weirdest part was ref running over to the keeper, chatting to him and then the keeper falls to the ground and the medics are coming on.
Seems like a genuine error from the ref but with about a million bungles in between that made it look at best messy, and at worst a bit dodgy.
And why did he restart with a drop ball?
28 Apr 2024 14:19:17
Gakpo should have played the ball into the net. Just put the ball into the net first then what deliberation can happen afterwards.
Just like what Abubakar did for Cameroon against Brazil at the world cup.
28 Apr 2024 17:28:04
Nigerred, even if he did nothing could be done, ref had blown so the game was dead.
Looking back I think the ref was considering time wasting and possibly booking the keeper. But he just got himself tied up and let the keeper off from what would of been a terrible mistake.
28 Apr 2024 21:57:05
Taylor screwed up and ro save himself from ridicule (too late, btw) manufactured that whole scene from thin air to protect himself from his upteeth exhibition of his relentless incompetence. I wish Gakpo had scored. Now that would have been funny even tho, Taylor would have found a way to rule it out with some bull crap action, like he did here.
28 Apr 2024 22:16:34
WYred, I disagree. Listen, this is not complicated and like you, many of us know the rules of footie esp. in this context.
Taylor asks Areola to get up after he catches the ball off the botched corner kick. Taylor does NOT give a foul so the play is NOT dead. He goes down and Taylor tells him to get up again while running and pointing to the LFC side of the pitch with his back turned and blowing his whistle meaning, the ball is ready to go back INTO play.
Then, Areola flips the ball onto the pitch so from this moment, the ball now is IN play. Under the rules at that point, the ball is can be touched by any outfield player and that includes those of the opposing team. Gakpo then attacks the ball and then from nowhere, Taylor blows the whistle to stop the game and then, starts telling Areola to go down like he's injured and he the ref, calls the WH med. team out, something he should NOT even be doing cos Areola NEVER asked for it.
The bottom line is that Taylor messed up Gakpo spared his blushes by not scoring cos had he scored, it would have been interesting to see try to wriggle out of this one.