Everton receive apology from PMGOL following handball farce

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By Ben Browning

Published: March 1, 2022 12:21 pm

Last Updated: March 1, 2022 4:12 pm

Everton receive apology from PMGOL following handball farce

PMGOL have revealed that the head of the refereeing organization Mike Riley has personally phoned Everton and issued an apology for the failure to award Everton a penalty in the dying stages of their clash with Manchester City at Goodison Park.

The ball bounced up and onto the arm of Rodri, but neither the referee nor the VAR on duty felt the need to award a penalty, which in all likelihood would have handed Everton a point.

Everton on Monday announced that they had launched a formal complaint against the FA following a VAR controversy that occurred in their 1-0 defeat to Manchester City.

Frank Lampard was left speechless after the defeat, telling media outlets that ‘I’ve got a three-year-old daughter at home who could tell you that’s a penalty… It’s incompetence at best, if it’s not that, then someone needs to explain to me what it is.’

And as per Sky Sports:

‘The club were ‘absolutely incandescent’ at some of the refereeing decisions made in recent games and they are demanding at the very least an apology for manager Frank Lampard and his team.’

Of course, they have since been handed one.

Does it matter?

To cut a long story short; no.

We saw similar scenes in a game between Aston Villa and Sheffield United in the 2019/20 season, where the ball clearly crossed the line for a Sheffield United goal but goalline technology had not been switched on properly by the officials, so no goal was given .

Come the end of the game, Villa escaped with a point courtesy of a 0-0 scoreline. It was this point that ultimately kept them in the Premier League, and relegated Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth.

Everton at the present sit just one point clear of Burnley in 18th place, and there will surely be outcry if history repeats itself and that potential point comes to mean so much more come the final day of the season.

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# Team MP D P
1 Manchester City 27 47 66
2 Liverpool FC 26 50 60
3 Chelsea FC 25 31 50
4 Manchester United 27 10 47
5 West Ham United 27 12 45
6 Arsenal FC 24 11 45
7 Tottenham Hotspur 25 3 42
8 Wolverhampton Wanderers 26 3 40
9 Southampton FC 26 -3 35
10 Brighton & Hove Albion 26 -5 33
11 Crystal Palace 27 -1 30
12 Aston Villa 25 -4 30
13 Leicester City 23 -6 27
14 Newcastle United 25 -17 25
15th Brentford FC 27 -17 24
16 Leeds United 26 -31 23
17 Everton FC 24 -13 22
18 Burnley FC 24 -8 21
19 Watford FC 26 -22 19
20 Norwich City 26 -40 17
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Salah, Mohamed Liverpool FC 19
Jota, Diogo Liverpool FC 12
Mane, Sadio Liverpool FC 11
Son, Heung Min Tottenham Hotspur 10
Sterling, Raheem Manchester City 10
Fernandes, Bruno Manchester United 9
Dennis, Emmanuel Watford FC 9
Ronaldo, Cristiano Manchester United 9
Smith-Rowe, Emile Arsenal FC 9
Raphinha Leeds United 9
Vardy, Jamie Leicester City 9
Bowen, Jarrod West Ham United 8
Antonio, Michael West Ham United 8
Mahrez, Riyad Manchester City 8
Gallagher, Conor Crystal Palace 8
Kane, Harry Tottenham Hotspur 8
Maupay, Neal Brighton & Hove Albion 8
Zaha, Wilfried Crystal Palace 8
Mount, Mason Chelsea FC 7
Saka, Bukayo Arsenal FC 7

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