He gives it if it benefits City or any other teams he's on the books of.
Michael Oliver
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He'll give it against United.
The pen is according to UEFA rules I guess. But ridiculous to let Havartz to go to a complete stop.
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 