The Referees or The Twelfth Man

Gawd only knows how much he will pocket from this adventure.!

Michael Oliver lands huge new role after Liverpool and Arne Slot red card controversy

Story by James Quinlan

Michael Oliver has been confirmed as one of the two referees from the Premier League that will officiate at the revamped FIFA Club World Cup this summer. That announcement, though, comes with one or two controversial moments involving Liverpool still fresh in the mind.

“We are coming from high standard performances delivered during the last FIFA tournaments. So the bar is higher,” chairman of FIFA’s referees committee, Pierluigi Collina, said alongside Monday’s statement confirming English officials Oliver and Anthony Taylor for the upcoming tournament. They are two of 117 individuals to be drafted from 41 member nations.

Incidentally, with one or two raised eyebrows from a Liverpool perspective, from the nine matches in which Arne Slot’s side have dropped points this season, Oliver has been in charge of three of them. They were the defeat to Nottingham Forest and draw to Manchester United, both at Anfield, plus the last-gasp away draw to Everton in the last ever Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.

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Who is funding this world cup thing, and what is their interest in the Premier League?

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…Exactly..!

Not only does Gazza not get a booking for this, but it barely even merits a response from Motty who only describes it as a “tough challenge” but not until after he’s finished making his point Venables :rofl:

https://x.com/DirtyFootbaIIer/status/1911870825575399765

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And the guy he tackles (assaults) gets straight back up with no complaint..proper football. No rolling around pretending they are mortally wounded and inciting the crowd.

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I’d be more concerned if he was doing our game at the weekend mind.

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