Paul Tierney is not going to referee a Premier League sport this weekend however might be on VAR obligation for Arsenal v Brentford.
Skilled Sport Match Officers Restricted, the referees’ physique, insists the appointment is just not a punishment for his error within the buildup to Liverpool’s 99th-minute winner at Nottingham Forest final Saturday.
Tierney, a top-flight referee since 2015, has refereed 22 Premier League matches this season and has operated as VAR on 23 events. He was VAR 4 instances final month, most lately on 17 February for Burnley’s sport at dwelling to Arsenal.
Forest have been left so incensed by Tierney’s failure to apply the laws accurately within the 97th minute, one minute and 50 seconds earlier than Darwin Núñez’s headed winner, that their proprietor, Evangelos Marinakis, confronted the referee within the gamers’ tunnel minutes after the ultimate whistle.
Forest’s first-team coach, Steven Reid, was despatched off for venting anger at Tierney because the referee headed down the tunnel. Within the aftermath of the aim, a supporter who ran on to the pitch from the Brian Clough Stand was restrained by the Forest defender Murillo after he made a beeline for Tierney.
Tierney wrongly handed the ball to Caoimhín Kelleher to restart play after a collision between the Liverpool goalkeeper and the defender Ibrahima Konaté. Ifab legal guidelines state Forest ought to have been awarded a drop ball as a result of their participant, Callum Hudson-Odoi, was in possession when the referee halted play.
The restart didn’t lead on to Liverpool’s winner, with Forest regaining possession earlier than Núñez headed in Alexis Mac Allister’s cross. The Liverpool supervisor, Jürgen Klopp, highlighted how an virtually an identical choice went in opposition to his aspect earlier within the half when Forest regained possession from a drop ball after Harvey Elliott’s shot was blocked by Forest’s Ryan Yates.
Forest took the unprecedented step of creating Mark Clattenburg, the previous Fifa and Premier League referee lately employed by the membership on a consultancy foundation, obtainable for interview and he was crucial of Tierney’s efficiency. Clattenburg vowed to talk to PGMOL, his former employer, concerning the choices.
Mike Dean, the previous Premier League referee, informed Sky Sports activities Tierney made a “monumental error”. He mentioned: “Sadly for Paul, it’s a mistake and it’s a dangerous one. It results in a aim, finally. There was a giant fallout and rightly so.”
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Clattenburg sat subsequent to Howard Webb, the chief refereeing officer at PGMOL, at Forest’s earlier dwelling match, final Wednesday’s FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Manchester United. Forest sought to deliver Clattenburg in as a referee analyst after being left aggrieved by a sequence of choices this season.
Forest lodged a formal complaint with Webb and the Premier League after Ivan Toney’s controversial aim, when he moved the ball earlier than scoring a free-kick, in defeat at Brentford January. Forest have submitted three official complaints to the league over refereeing choices this season.
Sunny Singh Gill will make Premier League historical past this weekend by turning into the primary British South Asian to referee a match within the competitors. Singh Gill will take cost of Crystal Palace’s assembly at dwelling to Luton.
