Simon Hooper, much like many ‘top-tier’ Premier League referees, has a history of making mistakes and his horror show at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium wasn’t even the first time this season he’s made headlines.
The opening game of the campaign saw the 41-year-old be part of a team that failed to see that Andre Onana clattered into Sasa Kalajdzic, deep into stoppage time at Old Trafford.
This was such a clear and obvious error that it led to the Swindon-born official being stepped down for the following set of league fixtures but that was seen as enough penance for his actions (via The Independent).
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The main question that comes from this is, how can an official that is deemed not good enough to officiate a match in the second set of fixtures be handed a game of such magnitude in gameweek seven?
Now that the man who was promoted to the Select Group in 2018 has made another high profile error, or at least been involved in the team that did – it’s likely he’ll receive a similar punishment again.
However, it won’t be too long before another incorrect decision is made that will massively affect the teams at the top of the table and so it calls into question whether the men in charge of our games are actually good enough.
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Until the technology can make decisions for itself and we no longer have to rely on inept users of it, there should be major questions over whether we can trust the PGMOL to select the right people to make these decisions.
It can’t be that we still have so many major issues on decisions that are a matter of fact and the punishments need to be so much more severe.
Howard Webb and his Ref Old Boys Club will look after one another and they will continue to make horrendous human errors, which they will acknowledge after the fact and continue to steal oxygen without any sanctions. Simon Hooper like his counterpart David Coote are sphincter muscles of note! The PGMOL will ruin this game unless a major overall is done.
The premier league has the best players from all over the world. But all the officials are from UK – why? It’s time the best league in the world had the best referees, regardless of where they come from. Right now the best league in the world has the most inept officials in world football.
As proven by the amount of refs from the PL judging in the WC=0
As appalllng as Hooper’refereeing was in terms of the Curtis Jones Red and first Jota yellow, the disallowed goal was the Var officials asleep at the wheel – possibly literally, after their long UAE flights. It is impossible not to have noticed that the linesman’s flag had gone up IF YOU WERE WATCHING THE GAME. And to not have noticed the flag up, is an unconscionable dereliction of duty. Hooper n both Var officials should be bumped down a league till after the Xmas break, and all comms between on and off-field officials should be publically audible, as in rugby. For now, however unfair the result was, the fire we showed as a team that’s just jelling makes me more confident than ever. Mcilroy’s fury at the US caddie in the Ryder cup, ultimately helped Europe and his teammates power on to victory. I guarantee our quiet fury will devastate every team we play. Onwards and upwards.
Corruption! they new exactly what they where doing , but they’re pretending its a human error! my 10 year old kid told me immediately that that’s not an offside, but God bless so many officials Ref + assistant ref, Var + assistant var + lines man + fourth official etc etc had the goal has offside. Get lost go to North Korea you will all fit perfectly well there!
Simon Hooper is betting heavy again … is not the 1st time he fuck liverpool
people must remember the assault to liverpool agains man city last season .
the refs want man city win the silver again
this ref needs to be expelled. no team needs a partisan louse reffing games inappropriately and getting away with it. the game is rough enough without bad lousy calls in favor or disfavor of the team he wants.