Several pundits have called for Constantine Hatzidakis to be banned for at least eight games following his altercation with Andy Robertson yesterday.
At half time between Liverpool and Arsenal yesterday, Robertson was seen walking over to Hatzidakis to say a few words, with the latter seen throwing his elbow toward the face of the Scotsman.
I keep being told the officials definitely definitely are not fighting for Arsenal…
Yet here is Constantine Hatzidakis, throwing almost as many elbows as Xhaka…#THFC #COYS #LIVARS pic.twitter.com/6RiZZ1tyil
— Football Confidential ? (@footballconfid1) April 9, 2023
Darren Bent took to Twitter after the incident occurred and got straight to the point, saying: “Eight game ban for the linesman“, while on 5 Live, Chris Sutton cited Aleksandar Mitrovic’s eight-match ban for his push on Chris Kavanagh as a benchmark for punishment.
“As far as I can see, he has to be banned.
“He will have to sit out a number of games. I can’t remember another incident like this. Where is the precedent for these things? A big debating point was Mitrovic and the eight-game suspension and the FA want him banned for more, but you can’t have assistants throwing elbows. What should the punishment be?”
It certainly was a moment of madness from Hatzidakis, who will now wait to find out what punishment the PGMOL will give him as a result of his actions.
Shrugged Robertson off, that’s all. Move on ffs
Only a Man U supporter would say anything so stupid. Why am I surprised ?
That’s my observation exactly,he actually held the refs hand but upon trying to shrugg robertson he caught him with an elbow.That was not intentional IMO.
Play acting got elevated to another level – a whole new realm. Agree with Keane’s comments – Robertson had acted like a big baby. What’s surprising is that a club as big as Liverpool would stand by such nonsense from one of theirs. They should get Robertson to apologise for confronting the assistant referee instead. What a load of rubbish!
Robertson grabbed the linesman and as soon as he did the linesman pulled his arm away catching Robertson. What was Robertson grabbing the linesman for anyway? No player should be allowed to touch an official
Mr Man keep quiet don’t be too quick to judge yenyenyen
Robertson grabbed his hand or arm or attempted too and the linesman shrugged him away. God, Kane gets pushed and dives to the ground as if he`s been shot. get on with it. seerves Robertson right. you cant lay a hand on the officials.
So the linesmans getting punished what about Robertson he should also be banned he’s just an arrogant knob in my opinion
The FA has cleared the linesman, who had personally apologised to Robertson. What’s left is for Robertson to apologise for creating the scene, and perhaps for Liverpool to hand out some form of punishment to Robertson for his conduct.