Liverpool deserve better than ‘I missed it’ ref Paul Tierney
Liverpool were undermined by a bad ref.
“I missed it, Jurgen. I’m like the players, I’m going to make mistakes. I missed it, so get over it.” This is what the Echo reported referee Paul Tierney said to Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool beat Aston Villa 2-0.
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The ref, Tierney, said, he missed it, he’s human, so get over it. Wow! That’s an eye opener and no mistake!
I don’t think any of us expect officials and refs to get each and every call ‘spot on’. But seriously folks; just get over it!!! Really???
That is what I thought VAR was supposed to correct. Obvious human error? This is just too common now in the EPL; that human error is allowed to proliferate while VAR is available, yet unused?
The consistency of calls from match to match is just non existent. Joe Gomez gets a yellow card/penalty foul in the box for hauling Raheem Sterling to the ground against Manchester City, yet Mohamed Salah can be corralled and pulled down from behind, not once but twice inside the penalty area Sunday last against Aston Villa and no penalty is awarded. Very consistent I’d say, ehh?
This isn’t just about Liverpool. This epidemic of shoddy officiating is league wide and pervasive. This years Premier League officiating is just a dodgy, rank, beastly; balls up lot-to be sure.
Mr Tierney, no one said you were a machine, no one implied that you weren’t human and prone to error. I’m sure this wasn’t Klopp’s thinking here. But for correctable errors to go unchecked tarnishes the professionalism of the league and reflects horribly on you and your profession.
This, is tantamount to whitewashing a fence by painting it black; and then saying when questioned; ‘just get over it’.
VAR must be allowed to override an obvious mistake by the ref on the pitch; since they are ‘like the players, and going to make mistakes’.
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With technology there is absolutely no longer a misers excuse for allowing this kind of poor officiating to stand.
How bout I just tell my boss at work, hey I’m human, I’m gonna make some mistakes, ‘so just get over it’.
Hardy harr harr…how far do you fans think that would get you and me at our place of employment? Hmmm.
There was an article several months back now, that revealed a data analytics firm had done some research and reshuffled the league table to reflect the shape it would actually look like if all the abysmal officiating had gone ‘right’ or been corrected in the moment.
It was quite revealing. From the two spot down the table looks nothing like it does with the uncorrected errors left in place. Indeed, each side in the EPL has been cheated by a human error in officiating that went uncorrected. And most teams have had this experience more than once, some have had several.
Now I watch a lot of football, not just EPL; I follow Serie A, La Liga, and Bundesliga. And there is no comparison to the blown calls in the EPL. As a matter of fact it isn’t even close.
So to fans who buy season tickets, purchase single game tickets, or pay streaming services princely sums so you can watch your teams get royally shafted by some human officiating error. The word from the EPL official; ‘just get over it.’
The powers that be in the EPL hierarchy are betting you’ll do just that; ‘get over it’, keep calm and carry on. They are banking on your loyalty to your team; whomever that may be.
And you will continue to support you favorite side regardless of how sloppy, shoddy, and inept officiating in the Premier League is and in all likelihood will remain. Since the official’s comments express little desire to make changes, (using VAR to override blown calls on the pitch in the moment.), to this error ridden system.
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There can be no other conclusion here, than the state of officiating in the EPL this season is horrendous and gets failing marks.