Referee for the Villa (A), Leicester (H) and Brentford (A) matches.
Referee: Paul Tierney. Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, James Mainwaring. Fourth official: Thomas Bramall. VAR: Simon Hooper. Assistant VAR: Wade Smith.
Referee: Craig Pawson. Assistants: Marc Perry, Scott Ledger. Fourth official: Andy Madley. VAR: Paul Tierney. Assistant VAR: Natalie Aspinall.
Referee: Stuart Attwell. Assistants: Darren Cann, Harry Lennard. Fourth official: Simon Hooper. VAR: Darren England. Assistant VAR: Mark Scholes
Tonight Tierney was the VAR that makes 3 matches out of 4 where Manchester Tierney is involved, either as the ref or VAR
To be honest you didnât have to list the Brentford game. As it is, its 3 games on the trott with Paul Tierney involved in some format.
I am not going to speculate as to whether he has an agenda against us or not. I trust him to be professional but find it hard to believe he will be competent.
On the issue you raised, I am not sure on the common practice of allocation of games to officials. However, I would of thought that any officials involvement in a run of âsaidâ teams games is imbalanced. Irrelevant of whether it is us or another team, in our favour or not, you are allowing for people to be subjective.
A certain player, manager, coach, fan base may give you a hard time in one game and you hold a bit of resentment to that.
Or, on the other hand after reviewing their previous performance realise they made a few wrong calls. Like thinking a player dived when they were actually fouled, or vice versa, it can create a scenario where you actually question your initial decision.
In all honesty, English refereeing is bad in general. Tonight Rodri should have had a yellow card for his petulant kick out at Carvalho and the bullying collision afterwards. In my opinion it is non debatable and VAR should have looked at it. I am not sure on the protocols but if a decent ref had seen it, it would have been a card so in my eyes a clear and obvious error.
Its just frustrating the inconsistency with refereeing. I accept that we may benefit from some of these bad decisions and maybe more so than others but it is not something that I want.
Tonight, Carvalho was bumped a few times and went down softly, no free kick and rightly so, but you had Milner on Lewis and a standard Grealish dive which were both deemed a foul but with minimal contact. Additionally, KDB kicked the ball away on purpose after giving away a throw in and didnât get a card.
In the end, we probably didnât deserve to win. Its just annoying that Refs like Cootes can affect a game with questionable calls and not be held to account.
No VAR involvement at the game last night meant Cootes could get away with whatever âdickeadâ decisions he chose to give or not last night⌠The guy is 100% anti-LFC is bottom line
I dont think you need new rules to deal with the last 3, but the first one is interesting. Have you ever seen (Olympic style) wrestling? There are cases where if the ref has to separate the wrestlers, but one guy was on top, rather than restarting on their feet the struggling guy is forced to get back onthe ground with his opponent on top of him before they restart. I wonder if there is something similar they could do for these cynical tactical fouls? Could you be forced to start with a certain number of players behind the ball?
Not seen the wrestling thing but will look it up⌠One thing is most definitely certain though⌠The whole way games are officiated needs a good shake-up, and hopefully for the better
