Arsenal fans may have even more reason to feel hard done by in yesterday’s 1-0 defeat away to Aston Villa as it seems it was a Liverpool fan at the heart of the controversial decisions that went against them, and which subsequently helped the Reds go top of the Premier League table.
Liverpool won 2-1 away to Crystal Palace earlier in the day, and Arsenal then had a goal disallowed and what looked like a clear penalty not given to them at Villa Park, allowing Jurgen Klopp’s side to go a point clear at the top of the table.
It’s now being pointed out by a few Arsenal fans on social media that Goal ran a piece a few years ago about referee Jarred Gillett being a Liverpool fan and how exciting it will have been for him to take charge of a legends game at Anfield.
The piece even mentions that this means he can’t referee Liverpool games, though it surely also needs to be taken into account when he’s officiating matches of their title rivals.
Arsenal had problems of their own yesterday and could have done better in a few areas, but this certainly doesn’t seem like an ideal choice by the PGMOL or the Premier League.
makes a change from it being the wrong type of grass. Wonder if they want the game replayed.
Liverpool the team to compete for the title,why didn’t they complain when liverpool goal was disallowed against Tottenham,shame on them.
Amateurish or corrupt or both. He certainly refereed the game from a pro Liverpool perspective. No southern team will ever win the EPL with these biased officials. As for VAR it’s a joke. The EPL should be officiated by foreign neutral officials not fans of Northern English teams
Stop balming the ref for being a supporter of another club. How many refs support different team in the Premier league. End of the day VAR ruled against them and they were not good enough on the day.
Get your facts striaght. VAR didn’t rule against them.
The Ref ruled against them, and VAR is just there to make sure the ref didn’t make a mistake, which they couldn’t do because the angles were too difficult. So the onfield decision stands.
If the ref had rule no handball, VAR would again, have been unable to overrule it, because the angles were too difficult.
It was the ref’s own decision, and the ref’s own bias.
Same old. Unconscious bias. It happens Al the time. Luton escape red card cos everyone favours the underdog. Spurs escape a red card because there’s an inexplicable postecoglou love in going on. Arsenal get stitched up all the time because they have been the side with the best raw talent for decades and the Brit tradition is to try and destroy those you are most jealous of… What everyone really needs to worry about is refs being subtly blackmailed…. Debt, Improprietry, infidelity…. Private eyes… You do the math.
PGMOL are just ruining the game,every week there is controversy they have become a curse on Football and a nightmare for everyone who loves watching and playing the game.
If he’d given the goal, VAR would have overruled it. If he hadn’t, VAR would have said “check complete”.
The whole system is a corrupt cesspit.