Howard Webb says Myles Lewis -skelly’s red card against Wolves was the wrong decision – but defended Judge Michael Oliver and his officials saying the call was not a “terrible”.
Lewis-Skelly was disputed by Oliver in the first half of Arsenal’s 1-0 victory over Wolves for Fouling Matt Dohety, a decision that was dropped later after an Arsenal appeal, which was given a fine 65,000 £ for their field reaction to the red card.
In the last episode of Mic’d Up of Match, where the judge’s audio was released, Var Darren England showed no desire to send Oliver to Var Monitor, without any contribution from judges’ assistants to decision -making.
The chief of Pgmol Webb believes that England should have intervened to note “View Studies” by Lewis -Skelly who should have kept it in the field – despite the Assistant Var that referred it to the audio.
“Since the beginning, we would prefer a yellow card in this situation,” Webb said in the last episode of Mic’d up of Match Office.
“It is clear that the judge on the day felt the actions of Myles Lewis -skelly, he saw the player go to an opponent without any ability or intention to play the ball – with the intention of stopping the opponent. And the judge sees an elevated foot do high contacts and the opponent came down.
“The referee thought it was a serious game, VAR checked the footage to see if the call was clearly and obviously wrong and he felt it wasn’t – seeing the contact was high enough.
“But we know that for a serious hateful game, we need excessive strength or brutality and what we see here is that high (right) contact by looking and exiting the foot quite quickly.
“So, for this reason, all pretty in the game have formed the same conclusion that this is falling a lot in the serious wrong game – because of that eye contact. Because studs do not really go on foot, they watch previously descending on foot. “
Webb: I understand Oliver’s opinion – not a terrible call
Decision to send Lewis-Sckelly off caused a big debate in the game. Among the widespread criticism, Sky Sports’ Micah Richads said it was “the worst decision I’ve ever seen in the history of the Premier League football”.
Webb believes there have been some criteria in the Lewis-Skelly challenge to send it, but the overall evidence showed a yellow card.
“There are some considerations that can support a red card, but there are a whole bunch of others who say it’s not all there, so in balance we would prefer that this had been a yellow card,” he said Webb.
“Var did not want to reinforce the situation, they were aware of the judge’s calling on the foot if it was not clear and obviously wrong. They thought it was not at that level of day and decided to leave it as red card in the field.
“I’ve heard this described as a truly terrible official decision. It’s not! I understand why the judge saw this day as a serious act of wrong games.
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Special football pundit Sky Sports News, Paul Merson, responds to the decision to overturn the Red Card’s decision of Myles Lewis-Skelly after Arsenal’s appeal.
“We have to be careful in slowing down things and lifting things. We’ve talked to not do it, it can distort reality. We have to look at it at full speed, it’s looking (studs) and don’t It goes out quickly.
“But it’s an understandable decision on the ground. We think the VAR should have been involved, but at the same time I can understand why it didn’t happen at the moment.
“We hear the game, we feed back on officials to try to make sure we are in accordance with the expectations of the game and how we judge these things.”
WebB: Oliver’s abuse ‘completely unacceptable’
Michael Oliver underwent online abuse
In the days after the incident, Judge Oliver received abuse on social media which Pgmol described as “terrible”.
The judge’s body contacted the police and a number of investigations were launched. Oliver returned to judges immediately, taking responsibility for Ipswich VS Southampton and Everton VS Liverpool in February.
“Truly disappointing,” webb said in connection with the abuse of officials after the Lewis-Skelly call.
“We know that criticism comes on our way, it is part and a package of work. Everyone in the field is criticized to some extent, managers do too. But there is a line, isn’t it there?
“No one should undergo threats, their families should not be subject to threats – whether they are officials or players. We have seen all participants be exposed to those types of things.
“So really disappointing in this regard. People will not always want to agree with the decision – yes they can criticize where they think it is justifiable – but not at the level we saw in this situation where it led to threats against the judge, officials in this game and their families.
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