Liverpool fans will be breathing a sigh of relief with news that Michael Oliver is banned from officiating a key fixture in the coming weeks.
Our Carabao Cup final against Newcastle will not be overseen by the native of Northumberland, because of his geographical connections with our opponents (as confirmed in The Express).
This decision comes in the fallout of a poor performance, his disastrous display at the Merseyside derby.
Many supporters will point to key events in the match, like the fact he completely missed Beto’s push on Ibou Konate – a moment that led to us not leaving Goodison Park with three points.
Other decisions in the game left even fellow referees unable to ignore the incompetence of the 39-year-old.
Michael Oliver will have no part in our Carabao Cup final
With the final looming against the Geordies, this ruling will certainly be seen by many as nothing short of a blessing for us.
With Arne Slot and Sipke Hulshoff being shown red cards across Stanley Park, we saw what those from inside our club felt about his most recent performance and it’ll be a relief for them to not have to cross paths with Oliver at Wembley.
Despite being the supposed highest profile official in the league, many have long questioned his ability to manage high-stakes games and his recent blunders have only reinforced these doubts.
The echo of his errors in the derby led to the chaotic scenes after the full time whistle and then the widespread criticism that followed afterwards.
The standard of officiating in England means we likely won’t be delighted with whoever is given this responsibility but we can at least hope that the match will be overseen by someone more capable.
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If he is on Var duty he can still cause problems
He would not be allowed to be on VAR either, in my mind he should not be allowed to referee any of the top 6 games, as Newcastle are trying to get a top 4 finish.
He oliver should not be on var duty being on var is the same as refereeing a match he oliver supports Newcastle so he shouldn’t be near the Newcastle Liverpool game he should be suspended for losing control of the liverpool Everton game he should be given a six week ban from refereeing any match or being on var
I don’t think it is incompetence but integrity. Is he on the take? Paid or supported by whom?
most definitely being paid.
I’m absolutely disgusted at the whole affair.
The game carried on after the allotted time period set out which enabled Everton to score a goal despite a foul on ibrahim konate prior to the goal .
The referee’s performance throughout the game regarding certain challenges, was questionable at least, unbelievable at most.
I know that derby games are heated but isn’t that what the referee is there for?
What about Everton’s players continually falling over and rolling around like they had been shot!
No cards there, no reprimands!
Michael Oliver’s performance was abysmal and not becoming of a so called professional at the very top level. I personally call for his dismissal as I’m certain that Liverpool won’t be the only team to suffer from such a degree of absolute incompetence. This is not what people pay their money to see! There should be complete and total impartiality. He deserves to be sacked and should be.
100% agree
Banning Michael Oliver will not do justice to Liverpool.The FA and Fifa must serve us justice by awarding us the three points.Thereafter that stupid so called referee should be slapped with a life ban.He shouldn’t be allowed entry in any soccer stadium in the epl.His bank accounts should be frozen because they are stashed with money from corrupt refereeing.Then his wife must file for divorce and leave him penniless.
Michael Oliver is bringing the game into disrepute.He should not be allowed to come within spitting distance of a football ground.
Micheal oliver is a Newcastle fan so he is not allowed even to var at carabao cup final
Michael Oliver is a complete disgrace to all of the rest of the referees because this complete fool conspired with Everton prick goal keeper Pickford to Deliberately add on added time so that they could score by any cheating means and cheating Oliver deliberately added time so that utter disgrace Neverton would not lose the game, LFC deserved the 3points but cheating prick Michael Oliver so stupidly sent Curtis Jones off and even more so stupid he gave Slot a red card for shaking his hands, but any manager would be very angry and annoyed with a so stupid referring by so stupid Michael corrupt Oliver this guy should be banned completely from professional referee’s job he makes recently fired David Coote look good!
Wake up ,Michael Oliver is just the same as all other referees who have off days. VAR official’s are there to correct any errors the 4 match referees make. Oh and by the way Oliver wouldn’t be allowed to officiate matches involving Newcastle United as you pointed out he comes from this area.
Michael oliver had no good qualities of officiating matches. He just award fouls according to his interest. FA should ban him forever
Micheal Oliver was absolutely abysmal Wednesday night if hes the top official in England then the Premier league is fucked. Foul on konate, foul on salah, dive by ndiaye so blatant. Anti Liverpool fc for sure. I’m a west ham fan and Liverpool were definitely robbed
Oliver is a close friend of Coutt.
Liverpool had 63% of the possession in their clash with Everton and conceded 20 fouls throughout the contest. Given that the ball was in play for 54 minutes in the match, this means Oliver blew for a foul against the Reds every 59.7 seconds that Toffees had possession in play.
Oliver was on the payroll of Sheikh Mansour who paid him 33k to referee a friendly 🙄 in Emirates. He has officiated 47 City games and has never given them a Red card.
That’s no card for Doku’s chest high challenge on McAllister, or for Grealish’ handball in the cup final or . Need I go on.
Well said. Total disgrace. Best league but worst referees.
How does banning this disgrace of a referee from being on officiating duties, help. This weekend he still gets paid for being on VAR duties at Chelsea vs Brighton. This is not a punishment, not even a slap on the wrist. The real losers here are Football and LFC. Mr. Webb and the rest of the “Old Boys” Club should really take a good hard look at themselves and be brutally honest. In Rugby Union, they have the same thing, only much more professionally, and you do not hear weekly fallouts from officials.
Banning Oliver doesn’t change the fact that Liverpool lost points. We need harsher rulings that will deter any other refferee from doing same. Like $1M fine with 5year retraining and a rematch of the game.