The head of the referee body (PGMOL), Howard Webbsaid the referee who blew the whistle for a 3-3 tie City of Manchester with the Tottenham Hotspuron December 3, erred in not allowing play to continue after a foul on Erling Haaland. And put in the fridge because of what happened.
When the game stopped, Jack Grealish (City) was already in the opponent’s goal when the referee Simon Hooper He blew the whistle for the previous foul on Haaland. Several City players surrounded the referee following his decision to stop play and the FA later punished the citizen club for its behaviour. “Yes, it was a mistake by the referee,” Webb said on the television show ‘Match Officials: Mic’d Up’. “On this particular occasion, (the referee) saw a rather strong and reckless foul by Emerson Royal on Haaland. He was in midfield.”
“He does the hard thing, he just hesitates for a moment if there’s an advantage. But he recognizes in his mind, when he thinks about it, that it’s a bad foul, that it’s reckless, and that he needs to be warned.” Webb went on to say that Hooper was “devastated” by the mistake. “At ground level it’s not easy to see how things are progressing like from a high perspective,” he added apologetically to his companion.
Source: La Verdad
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