Referee Paul Tierney has not been selected to officiate a Premier League match this weekend following the controversy over one of his decisions during Liverpool’s win at Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
Tierney has been heavily criticised by sections of the game for incorrectly restarting play with a drop ball during the Nottingham Forest vs Liverpool fixture.
The official allowed Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher to restart the match after stopping play for a head injury to Ibrahima Konate. Forest had the ball at the time and many believe the home side should have been given it back in an attacking area of the pitch.
This decision might have gone unnoticed but all the attention has been drawn to it as Darwin Nunez would go on to score the winner just a short time after.
According to the Liverpool Echo, Tierney has not been chosen to referee in the next round of Premier League games and will instead be the video assistant referee (VAR) for Arsenal’s home match against Brentford on Saturday evening.
PGMOL protecting Paul Tierney after controversy
The Professional Game Match Officials Ltd insist Tierney has not been dropped and is just one of a group of officials who regularly alternate between refereeing and being on VAR duty, reports the Liverpool Echo.
This looks like their way of protecting Tierney following the backlash last weekend as the official has not been having a good season overall.
Liverpool have often had run-ins with the referee and Jurgen Klopp has even pointed it out in the past, but this time things went their way. Nevertheless, he made the wrong decision and it looks like the official is being semi-punished for it this weekend.
Liverpool’s win can’t be overturned.
Referee blunders cost club game points, prize monies, manager’s their jobs, upset fans… Do I need to explain more?
So do misplaced passes, missed sitters, mistimed tackles and goalkeeper errors. Managers buy wrong players, make wrong decisions, use wrong tactics. Everyone is human but match officials have to make split second decisions most the time with a crowd who don’t know the Laws of the Game criticising, including so called pundits who watched several times even in slow motion
But it wasn’t a split second decisions though was it
Misplaced passes, missed sitters and general errors get players dropped, what is your point?
All of those thing you are mentioning influence themselves, that is their own fault. Refereeing decisions affect clubs when it isn’t their fault.
But this idiot had 1 thing to get right and is incapable of doing that. Smacked of favouritism but wasn’t just a mistake but a howler.
Hope Tierney has been on a refresher on the laws of football or how is he to get it correct with VAR.
He should lose his match fee, it was basic refereeing, if he can’t restart the game correctly he doesn’t deserve to be paid! If Forest have points deducted that 1 point lost could see them relegated.
Although they gained a point against Burnley when VAR chalked off a goal that was identical to the one that Forest scored and was allowed. EPL match fixing at its finest 👿
Who cares Liverpool won if it was other way around they be nothing about it. Forrest got punished for time wasting end of drama. Plus their fans are a disgusting the carry on of them
If it was other way around Klop would want replay
Ohhh you mean the disgusting Liverpool fans that jump and bashed a 10 year old boy with cerebral palsy and his dad leaving the wheelchair exit into the car park being shouted out and surrounded calling them scabs, C*NTs, wan*ers etc ?
Fock off
Liverpool are disgusting their fans attacking the team bus with manager and team inside
He should be made to referee the next game in his pants! Just joking… To tell you the truth, I don’t envy anyone who has the bravery to stand in front of a town full of people making decisions that will be cried about for years… even correct decisions… I would like to see some of you try it before you criticise the poor fella…. It’s a very difficult and thankless task so please give them a bit of slack… Nigel Green seems to have the right perspective… Best comment so far 👍…. Apart from this one of course… Yer welcome
Most TV coverage does not have commentators who know the rules , does not give the viewer a reference on screen to the relevant(s) rule when and whilst a controversy arises and seems keen to allow obfuscation to trump clarity . Can anyone ever recall Alan Smith explain any rule clearly ? Can you recall a caption on screen outlining a relevant rule so the viewer can work out the controversy for themselves? No and No . Soccer continues to be lone of UK ‘s best crowds pacifiers whilst remaining essential chewing gum for the eyes ( best leave your brain on the couch .
I recall a match where a player went down in the ref. The pundit also said penalty. The replay showed he wasn’t touched, pundits comment ‘ it is a penalty because he anticipated he was going to be fouled’? An other they always got wrong was the old hand ball. It really used to annoy me, hand to ball not ball to hand.
A premiership referee who either does not know the rules of drop ball or thinks he’s above the rules and can do as he pleases this was no mistake by him he either knows the rules of the game and decided against them in Liverpools favour for whatever reason or he doesn’t know the rules and therefore should not be refereeing in the premiership or anywhere so the premiership decides to drop him for one weekend wow no wonder the game is in such a mess and we can’t get it right