Ban him next match pls. Only acceptable solution
Yet to see an explanation as to why the ref blew. Was Grealish offside? Surely that’s what VAR is for?
In either case, I can understand Haaland’s frustration. I don’t condone any physical contact with the ref, but if that was me, you’d bet I’d be pissed off.
Grealish wasn’t offside. Can see on the replay he’s a good metre or two onside.
Not that I care too much though, I mostly just find it funny that City finally got fucked over by a poor refereeing decision.
I know the rules are rules and he’s probably going to face a short ban but seriously tho, that call would make anyone furious and them punishing players for criticising this absurd call just makes them look like fools who cannot admit their mistakes.
Imagine a referee makes the correct call and City’s players, and Haaland, reacted the same way. We’d all think they’re bang out of order.
The difference between the two situations is how bad a referee’s error is, and that’s not for a player to decide (especially not while in the field without the benefit of replay and so on). There’s no way to say “this error was bad enough for the players to crowd the ref and scream at him, but this one wasn’t”, so we need rules for how players can react to a call. Even in fucking atrocious refereeing decisions like this one.
I would like referees to do a mandatory interview after every game, where they are shown on a little screen the tackles, fouls, cards and stoppages and they are allowed to explain what their thought process was.
It would not be a witch hunt, if they don’t want to answer a question then thats their progative, there would be no difficult questions from the interviewer. If they admit to a wrong decision, or stand by a decision, there would be no changes or later disciplinary actions, but it would allow for more indepth analysis into how referees think because clearly men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and referees are from Omicron Percei 8.
It would also keep the audience watching the screen for longer after the match waiting for the referee interview which would be after the managers, thereby increasing advertising retention.
The only option is a season long ban and a forced selling to AFC Wimbledon for a packet of Quavers
It’s only fair