The pen is according to UEFA rules I guess. But ridiculous to let Havartz to go to a complete stop.
Michael Oliver
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He’s from the same school as Clattenburg. An absolute cnut that tries to steal the show and make it all about him.
I do wonder what my opinion of his refereeing would be if his face made me less involuntarily angry. It's absolutely impossible for me to be objective and unbiased about his performances because I can't stand him at all. I swear he gets 10 times more closeups of his face than other refs too, the attention-craving prick.
How did he do that today?
Why though? It says in the rules that the kicker
- can stop and start during their run-up to the ball
Said the exact same things to my father when he booked the Danish management team member. Needy, show off
He'd have been notified something on his mic when giving the yellow, to be fair.
Tonight’s decision in particular I would say he was only following the protocol, even if I don’t agree with it but it’s more a general statement about him. I always think he gets involved far too much, and feels the need to make himself known in a game.
He saw Eriksen and Hojlund in red tops and thought “…close enough”
Not sure why people are having a meltdown over him today, the decisions were in accordance with the rules.
I don't like him as a ref. The offside is offside per the technology, so there's not much he can say or do there. But that handball is incredibly harsh in any game and coming so quickly after the disallowed goal makes it even more frustrating. He could have done what he did in the FA cup and just given a goal kick.
Me too, I absolutely detest him.
I don't think he was involved in the decision making process for the offside or the pen, those were both essentially given by VAR and no ref goes against it once sent to the monitor.
However, I thought he was bad overall. He gave Germany a lot of soft frees. I know they don't register with most people but those decisions can really influence the flow and momentum of the game.
However, I thought he was bad overall. He gave Germany a lot of soft frees. I know they don't register with most people but those decisions can really influence the flow and momentum of the game.
Yeah, it was not a good performance. Constantly deceived by players flinging themselves to the ground under no contact. Plus he booked someone for an accidental clash of heads. Clearly a level below the better referees in the competition.
Michael Oliver has a list of appalling decisions to match any referee. He has more than a suspicion of bias against some teams and very in favour of one team in particular.
But the thing that's worst of all is that if there was never a single 'big call' controversy, he simply over officiates. He dictates games more than some players do and seems to be constantly on camera.
He's an awful referee. Simply brutal and the English media is mostly to blame for him after years of attaching 'our best referee' to his name simply because he broke into the PL young. He never kicked on and improved and actually has somehow got worse.
But the thing that's worst of all is that if there was never a single 'big call' controversy, he simply over officiates. He dictates games more than some players do and seems to be constantly on camera.
He's an awful referee. Simply brutal and the English media is mostly to blame for him after years of attaching 'our best referee' to his name simply because he broke into the PL young. He never kicked on and improved and actually has somehow got worse.
He gets Portugal vs France as a reward for being shit.
Taylor gets Spain/Germany.
Taylor gets Spain/Germany.
That’s France through. He’s going to be an absolute cnut to Bruno and Ronaldo.
2 English refs in the quarters is shocking.
At least Clattenburg looked like Bear Grylls. Oliver has a very punchable face.
Although you do have Sliva and Dias playing for Portugal too. So his love for City might cancel out his hate for Bruno and Ronaldo.
Such an incompetent clown 
Constantly one of the worst refs in the league.
But still the best hair. Haters gonna hate...
He is a clown. I hate him reffing our games
He wants to be the star too often.
Imagine if you were as incompetent at your job , as this clown is at his. You'd be sacked.
Massive twat. Never liked him since Joe Hart pretty much pressed his head against his face, yelled at him and didn’t do shit.
Around the same time he sent Di Maria off for touching his shoulder.
You just never know how he will decide. He makes it up on the spot. He is so inconsistent in his decisions. The Trossard red is fair, but next game he wont give it.
Blokes a grade a cnut but stop pretending that he had any other choice but to send Trossard off who after all the talk in recent weeks, knew exactly what he was doing.
Shitty referee
Could add this to the OP and close the thread haha
Not sure what’s he’s done wrong ? It’s a 2nd yellow for kicking the ball away .
That argument does not hold up when he let half a dozen similar fouls go in the first half without a card but then cannot wait to book Trossard when he knows it is a sending off. The only thing I don’t know is if he did it because he loves being centre of attention or if he did because of all the cash in his bank account from the owners of City. Probably both.
Didn’t book City player for the same.
Of all his corrupt actions it’s not the worst but how he’s allowed to ref the team whose owners literally pay him incredible.
he’ll be watching the highlights and pulling himself senseless later.
Lack of Consistency.
Peter Schmeichel was fuming at the second yellow card. He said Oliver always want to be the center of the spotlight of match instead of refereeing it.