Liverpool have every right to feel that they were robbed last night following the performance of Simon Hooper and his officials at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Luis Diaz’s opening goal in the capital clearly should’ve stood but was instead ruled out for offside and VAR Darren England inexplicably failed to intervene.
And X user and Liverpool supporter @ynwamatt noticed something interesting shortly after our No. 7’s disallowed goal.
As the ball went out of play and Andy Robertson was waiting to take a throw in, Hooper paused the game while it appeared he was being spoken to through his earpiece.
It would be interesting to find out what was being said to the referee and whether it was at this point that the officials realised what a huge blunder they had made.
Because play had already resumed officials wouldn’t have been able to then award the goal but what a shambolic performance from the officials!
Check the clip below, courtesy of Sky Sports:
This was the first break in play after the 'offside'.
Simon Hopper receives something in his earpiece and pauses play for a moment. I imagine what he heard was something along the lines of "we fucked up big time".
This whole thing could have been cleared up there and then. pic.twitter.com/kCSbPOv2pW
— matt (@ynwamatt) September 30, 2023
Howard Webb and his bum-chums in the PGMOL can take their error-acknowledged and their apology and put it where the sun does not shine. This helps LFC nought and to think that the VAR officials who were on duty in the UAE have now been relieved of their duties for the rest of the weekend. They will only be happy not to be working. This is but a slap on the wrist for their cowardly and inept performance. As for the tosser Hooper, the less said the better. English officials are a bunch of oxygen thieves.
The narrative that play had started is hogwash. Which is more important, a goal or a penalty being awarded….. we’ve seen players being called from dressing room for a penalty to be awarded…..how comes for a goal they now say play had resumed…FIFA is an ass together with IFAB
It’s pointless to apologize when you have messup and they had more time to check with VAR and where VAR can only work on issuing a red cards . Last time red card for McAllister they apologized and apologize are only for Liverpool everytime and I think these referees are paid or corrupt for these officials
No wonder none of our refs get to go to the World Cup. The standard is just so poor. Howard Webb the guy in charge issued 3 yellow cards to the same player when he was there. The sooner Saudi football sign our useless officials up the better.
I cant agree less! Let the Saudis sign the whole bunch of English Referees
I cant agree less! Let the Saudis sign the whole bunch of English Referees
How can this apology be a help to us now? This made even cause us to loose the league title, we all know only a single point can divide we and man city over a year now apart from last season
Give the title to Man City now and stop wasting our time
Honestly that is what they are, no wonder they are not recognized much by FIFA except Michael Oliver and Anthony Tailor. Simon hooper is just a todler in the hands of his co official.
Ok so lets go with the analogy that they thought the goal was given, and said VAR check complete, without actually drawing thre lines and analysing the incident, so on the flipside what if the goal was given but he happened to be offside, then its another mistake so either way they should have analysed the goal properly! The lame excuse don’t work, load of codswallop!