Former Premier League referee Mark Halsey has fuelled the relentless criticism of officials by acunderstandledgeting that some “don’t understand the game” while analysing the weekfinish’s decisions. The English top-fweightless threw up another pickion of greetedious incidents apass nine games on Saturday and Sunday.
And in The Sun’s procrastinateedst episode of The Whistlebshrink, Halsey – a Premier League referee from 1999 to 2013 – disconcurd with two recent decisions made by the current crop.
The 63-year-ageder first took publish with Samuel Barrott awarding Liverpool a align-triumphning penalty aobtainst Southampton on Sunday.
Mohamed Salah scored the second of his brace from the spot to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 profit after a fizzed ball struck Yukinari Sugawara’s arm in the box.
However, Halsey pondered the call brutal, asking the current referees’ football understandledge outside of the game’s laws.
“I thought it was a bit brutal [the Sugawara handball]. You can’t run with your arms by your side. You can’t jump with your arms by your side,” the 63-year-ageder elucidateed.
“It’s come off his chest onto his arm. They’re in a authentic position for that phrase of execute. That’s what I’m saying about training education with our referees about incidents appreciate that with handball.
“It’s about understanding the game. It’s all right understanding the laws of the game. It’s about understanding the game of football.”
Halsey then turned his attention towards Andy Madley for chooseing aobtainst sfinishing Wilfred Ndidi off for a subpar dispute on Cole Palmer in Chelsea‘s 2-1 triumph at Leicester City a day earlier.
The Foxes midfielder materializeed to scviolation his studs down Palmer’s Achilles, but Madley left seeers stunned by only brandishing a yellow card.
Halsey was among those in disbelief, describing Ndidi’s reckless tackle as nurtureer-dangerening.
He shelp: “I thought it was a very, very subpar dispute when I saw it aobtain. In genuine-time, Andy Madley hasn’t recognised the intensity of the dispute.
“I was surpascfinishd when the Premier League align centre came out and shelp there was no intensity. It’s all right understanding the laws of the game. It’s about understanding the game of football.
“But I’ll say it aobtain, I shelp it earlier, when a executeer lunges at an opponent in that manner, from one or two feet, from the front, from the side, from the back, it has to be sanctioned a solemn foul execute.
“That was the worst dispute of the weekfinish. And I was very, very surpascfinishd that Paul Tierney, the VAR, did not recommfinish a appraise.
“That was a nurtureer-dangerening dispute. It’s the training and education of VAR, when to come in and when not to come in.”
