Former Prime Minister League referee Dermot Gallagher and Stephen Warnock analyze the controversial red card of Myles Lewis-Skelly in the victory of Arsenal over Wolves in Molineux.
Incident: Arsenal's Myles Lewis-Skelly received a straight red card from referee Michael Oliver for the pollution of Matt Doherty at the edge of the Wolvenbox.
The decision was “controlled and confirmed” by Darren England, where the VAR that regards Lewis-Skelly has committed “seriously cheating”.
Dermot says: “I think it breaks a promising attack. That is my opinion and other referees see it differently.
“Lewis-Skelly realizes that Doherty is gone and his priority is to stop him quickly, and he flashes out.
“It is a very cynical mistake but not a red card.
“It is not the worst decision in the world as people say.
“Referee Michael Oliver still feels and still feels that he is running out his Achilles. If that is what he thinks, referees is now told that a tackle with studs through the Achilles should be a red card.
“I don't think he's doing that. It happens very quickly.
“But for me I think it's a yellow card for stopping a promising attack. Is the challenge with brutality? Is it with maliciousness? Get intensity and speed? I don't think.”
Warnock: Var afraid to overthrow Oliver's decisions
Stephen Warnock on Sky Sports News:
“I don't think it's a red – I don't think it's the worst decision we've ever seen in football. A lot was made of this at the weekend and some people are very much about it.
“I think it's the wrong decision. I think it is more than anything like that. It is a cynical error, a tactical error that he knows he has to make because wolves break, but there is No malice.
“Yes, he catches him so lightly with his studs, but it's not a stump on him.
“My biggest thing is why it didn't go to VAR or why Var Michael Oliver did not ask to go to the screen and look at the situation and talk about it? For me, the team has abandoned the referee.”
“We still get this hierarchy talk.
“Michael Oliver is our number one referee; the VAR position does not want to destroy his decision because they are afraid, he is the most important man and our best referee and I think that that element of that conversation is still underway.
“That is still a problem that many people mention, rightly or wrongly this weekend.”
Why did the VAR not intervene?
Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher on Sky Sports News:
“I can't answer that.
“If the VAR had said, go to the screen and look at what you think. That is in principle great, but that is not part of the protocol.
“It must be that the VAR thinks it is a clear and obvious mistake, then he recommends the referee to go to the screen.
“What happens next is up to the referee. If he had gone to the monitor, he might have kept his ground. He might still have thought it was a red card. He still has all the options.
“It did not happen and the follow-up is that it has caused a huge, huge debate. It also caused a very toxic and unnecessary follow-up.”
'It's just a mistake'
Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher on Sky Sports News:
“Freeze frame photos are great for contact point. That's all it is. It shows you where the boat lands.
“I think Michael Oliver has had an optical illusion. He looks from behind and he sees the tackle going inside. He thinks the studs have gone the Achilles.
“They don't have that and if you look at different corners, you can see that. But if you show a stationary photo, everything changes.
“A stationary photo simply shows the first four speed points, intensity, where he comes from and where he goes.
“I feel like Oliver. He has made a real decision with a view to his experience and his knowledge. He is one of the best referees in the world. He did not make that decision, but what he sees is good. , he did that and he continued with the game.
“According to him, he probably thinks he is doing well.” In my opinion it is just a mistake, but that is all it is. “
'Vitriol focused on Oliver cowardly'
Stephen Warnock on Sky Sports News:
“This is an opinion – his opinion. Whether it is right or wrong, you do not have the right to go on social media and to expand your anger in this way.
“We get things wrong all the time – it's just our opinion. We receive all kinds of things on social media. People think they have the right to do it, it's just society and the way it is right now.
“If they stood in a room with that person and confronted them, they would not say a word. It is cowardly, it is pathetic.”
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