Jagielka frustrated by Atkinson's 'arrogance'

Questions need to be asked the standard of officiating in this country and the potential corruption. We've been done now so many times its no coincidence in my view.

And look at the Lukaku chance right before half time - he blew up due to some infringement in the box! Unbelievable. More like to stop us scoring. Oh, and Martinez out.

I'm angry they can get away with saying something like that without justifying there own actions but it's true.

So it makes me believe that somebody from Man City, a player, the manager, official or somebody from the broadcasters had had a word in his shell-like and he altered his performance radically. Also why aren't players booked or admonished by the officials for constantly complaining as were practically the whole City team and as for the City manager waving imaginary yellow cards, talk about a lack of class.

The officials do it in nearly every game, they come out with a pre-conceived idea about how to officiate the match and what they see and don't see depending on who the participating teams are, it's a disgrace but we as supporters of every club have to take responsibility for it too, shrugging our shoulders at the latest incident but packing the stadiums to the rafters regardless of the bad decision making of the men in the middle.

When Hinchcliffe, now a fully paid up member of the establishment says something along the lines of "you can't blame the officials for missing that" then what chance is there of ever seeing a game which is refereed without bias?

If it had have been Chelsea, Arsenal, United or our neighbours on the end of that decision – the ball out of play – we would have seen a media frenzy about it and calls for Atkinson to be demoted, but because it was against a non-elite club it doesn't matter, these things happen, get on with it you crying bunch of wimps. Little wonder we have been pot-less for so long or that our record against the self-proclaimed elite clubs is so utterly abysmal.

However, instead of demotion or the like my preferred action would be to have Twatkison officiate our next home match. Crazy you say?! Perhaps. However, in a season best forgotten, the prospect of him stepping foot in Goodison at present could serve as the most entertaining 90 mins of our lives – and the longest 90 mins of his!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3420897/Phil-Jagielka-shouldn-t-run-media-called-Martin-Atkinson-arrogant-Come-players-grow-bit.html?

It is perfectly legitimate for a captain to approach the ref in a proper manner as Jags did, and question an incident on the pitch. For Atkinson to reply as he did shows his arrogance and unsuitability to handle big games.

Football is a multi-million pound business and it is vital, in mind of the current FIFA scandal, that those officiating in all matches can be seen to be doing their jobs without fear or favour. I doubt we'll ever see full time professional refs/linesmen but something has to be done about the general standard of our so called top class officials.

A good referee is one who is hardly noticed and goes about his job fairly and ensures a free flowing game. People like Atkinson bring the sport into disrepute by the mere hint that they are not fair and impartial.

As for us, until Martinez is gone I can't see us progressing any further than mid table mediocrity at best or relegation dogfights at worst. Most of our lads did well last night, but without proper leadership and with Martinez taking off our main attacking threat we were on a hiding to nothing from the moment Kone replaced Deulofeu.

The days of technology being used in almost every other sport regarding contentious decisions suggest that Football is seriously lagging behind. Regardless of people's opinions on Martinez, that decision by Atkinson could, and in some people's eyes should, have cost him his job.

We lost because of tactical ineptness. Osman started... and offered what Osman now offers: zilch; puzzling substitutions and no idea of how we were going to get out of our own half in the second half.

Do people actually think, if the second City goal had been ruled out of play correctly, that they wouldn't've scored anyway? It was on the cards and would've happened regardless. That doesn't make it okay or any better to take but it does point to the fact that they were better than us and we had pretty much no idea of how we were going to try and win that game.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes... and corruption in football.

We just don't have the financial clout or spine to stand up to these bent pricks. We are soft and willingly accept whatever treatment we get. Game is hard enough. Don't need tossers like Atkinson tilting the pitch even further against us.

That said, we had two penalty calls in our favour against City recently so it is a little embarrassing to hear Martinez harp on about it. Jagielka has every right to call out Atkinson though; good on him.

Officials make mistakes as do players and I can accept that. However, I find it totally unacceptable that a paid/impartial official would make the comments alleged to him by the captain of Everton Football Club.

If we have any pride as an organisation then our hierarchy should go through the requisite channels and make a formal complaint as to the attitude of this pompous official.

In essence this should be escalated and if our manager is truly heartbroken and believes this to be the cause of our demise last night then this should be done without hesitation. We should bring it out into the public domain and create a right stink until for once one of these tossers is brought to book for his actions..

It would probably be worth it.

It is a matter of time I believe before a manager tells his team to walk off the pitch in protest at the performance of a referee in a top class professional game. I bet Mourinho has considered it many times but not seen it through.

No wonder we are such a soft touch in defence ff we can get upset about a referee's comment ffs.

Also on his mind will be all the previous complaints and comments. Steven Gerrard was always talking to the ref. It is all part of the repertoire of sneaky and slightly shady tricks, not quite adding up to ungentlemanly conduct, that other teams have and we don't have – making the most of an injury to break up the game when under the cosh, taking extra seconds for throw-ins when winning, little niggly fouls in the opposition half to slow down a counter-attack; that sort of thing. Not nice, but what you need to win sometimes.

Everyone believes this would cause bribes and corruption. How? If a European law stated any match official, manager, and player involved in match fixing would receive a minimum jail term of 20 years may deter such behaviour.

The pool of Premier League referees is to small. Any small group which hold influence over decision making hold enormous power. A European pool of referees would develop the standards of both referees and players behaviour.

If English football had embraced the official behind the goal-line, the ball over the line last night would have been seen!!

On a more simple note, if we defend better, we may not need to moan about crap officiating!! Just a thought!!

This fella has got previous were Everton are concerned, and if it was a genuine mistake, I would think it would be easier to take. But remembering Rodwell, why did we have to appeal, to get his red card rescinded? If the man was genuine, an apology he was wrong would have gained him some respect, but the bastard proved last night, he's got none of that for Everton.

I can never remember us getting a favourable decision off Atkinson, and to watch the man closely. although his demeanour never changes, I think he honestly does like making us suffer.

We have to be careful with this though, because the man with the whistle carries a lot of power, and it's very obvious these professional referees, pull rank.

I remember refs having nice little chats, and smiles, with Creasehead, Lampard, Beckham et al during games and glaring at lesser known players while brandishing reds and yellows. One law for the rich and one for everyone else.

The problem for me is that the game and refereeing havent kept pace, think of it like this, twenty years ago you had unfit fat men playing football and the matches refeereed by unfit fat men. Now you have professional athletes playing football and the games refereed by unfit fat men, the linesman arrived at the by line as the ball was bulging the net.

I've often thought that in the last few years, we've had much better referees in our Europa League campaign. Conversely, the English "big four" in the Champions League often get decisions given against them by these same continental referees, that the likes of Clattenberg and Atkinson give them routinely in the Premier League.

People are right in posting that we are too nice and accepting of refereeing decisions. Maybe this is because the players are following the lead of Martinez, but hopefully this revelation by Jags, and the recent outbursts by the manager, will lead to more aggression shown towards the officials. This never did us any harm back in the glory days of the eighties, when Peter Reid, Andy Gray, Pat van den Hauwe, and plenty of others, would form a disorderly queue to tell the referee exactly what he should do next!

Whether the ball crossed the line or not, you play to the whistle. Their lad had a free shot on the penalty spot. Let's get our own house in order first.

I just don't share this sensitivity at a referee's comment. This would have been taken as standard years back. A player tells a ref he is having a stinker - the ref tells the player he is not playing very well himself.

ps: I don't buy your theory that the ref cheated us. He got the call wrong. Sterling was running at a hundred miles an hour, the ball crossed the line for a milli-second. The ref and linesman couldn't see it from their positions – it happens.

I'd much rather hear from our captain and manager that our defending has to improve and that they are going to work their guts out to make this happen, rather than hearing how we have been unlucky, or that it was the ref's fault, or that the ref was rude to our captain etc.

We'd have lost the league game there too, if the referee hadn't helped us in the last minute. Swings and roundabouts.

We get treated unfairly because we are easy to treat unfairly. Referees fear some clubs and managers. No team, player, official or pundit fear Everton. We are a soft touch on and off the field and it is shameful.

I hope this goes further. Unbelievable stuff that he said this and it's reported that that other comments were made during the match. Unreal.

Why if we can get "Hawkeye" to judge if a ball is over the goal line, why can't it judge for the other lines round a pitch, which surely can be just as important!

No point arguing with him too much, because it's impossible to win. I remember suggesting an umpires chair would be great for everyone concerned, and especially so for him, because he was definitely heart-attack material.

He obviously thought I was taking the piss, but I actually wasn't, because his stop-start football was no good for anyone. A bird's-eye view, from sitting on a chair, near the halfway line, could only improve how a lot of games are officiated to me.

It's not the refs fault we lost last night... but two wrongs do not make a right.

Who he'll blame after Sunday hell knows.

I said last night I never thought it cost us the game, I blamed the managers subs myself, but I just can't have it that both officials never saw it.

Danny if you haven't heard our players say, that we have got to improve defensively, then you must have been on a good holiday, so why can't they point out what that arrogant bastard of a referee said?

I'd sooner the players said nothing myself, because actions speak louder than words, and feel it is also the reason why we are going backwards under Martinez.

Maybe another problem is, it seems to me that most of these modern refs have never played the game. But to suggest that after running at, and then past Stones over a distance of 40 yards, that the ref couldn't see the ball was out, then it's obvious to me he's not good enough to officiate at this level. And wether he's a cheat or not shouldn't even come into it.

The history of our manager tells a story. Your coaches are following your orders! The statistics are proving your methods are correct! The problem is our league position and cup competitions are suffering. Look again Reberto at the method you implemented at Wigan and at Everton. It's OK to change!!

I remember saying how far we were falling behind last summer with the lack of transfer activity and being shot down by certain posters. The club is in a total mess. In a season where Leicester City are top of the pile we have missed out massively due to the shocking management of this once great club.

Oh, and we're unlucky.

Something is drastically wrong when a team can concede 3 at Bournemouth, 3 at home to Leicester, 4 at home to Stoke and 2 at home to Swansea as well as 3 at Chelsea and 3 at Man City.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist just a better strategist than Martinez.

Surely he won't be here much longer?

As somebody else mentioned earlier, if one of the 'Sky darlings', including our neighbours, had been dealt such an injustice, there would have been hell to play. The banner on the front of the Daily Telegraph said it all for me this morning: "Ecstasy and agony – City reach final but suffer injury setback" says it all really.

If Martinez cannot see the problem, it's over! The question is, can he or his coaching staff fix it!! The next three and a half months will tell us!

You're wasting your breath, Martinez, talking to this pathetic excuse of a man. One of the worst refs I can remember.

People take the easy option and Everton and Martinez offer it.

We lost to the better / richer team, I begrudgingly accept it, but that moment was a bigger telltale of plain old-fashioned corruption than the byline one.

Soul destroying. Also vintage Everton.

Bad refereeing changes results and it is happening too often to be just misfortune. There needs to be a referral to a video ref on such decisions, painful but it's the only way to go. Too much is at stake.

It's easy to feel there is a conspiracy here, but the only conspiracy is to ensure any 50/50 decisions don't go in our favor and give us nothing wherever possible against prefered teams.

This, for me, actually is the sign of an all-time low at Everton when the players are complaining about decisions here and there. Jags, Bainsey and many others should be channeling their anger somewhere else, like in the dressing room, and towards the manager, the way the blues have been playing lately is shameful nothing more nothing less.

It is clear to see that confusion and uncertainness permeates the team on the field and that's down only to one person.

Martinez was probably secretly relieved there really was a big talking point in that game, as it detracts from his sheer ineptitude as a manager. Credit to him though he is the absolute master of media spin.

I think he just talks that much bollocks that the journos probably switch off halfway through the question they have asked him, and then can't follow it up with a probing question because they have forgotten what he has just said.

As far as Jags being quiet goes; I'm glad he's not like those other scumbags like Terry, Keane, Gerrard etc. As far as I'm concerned he is a fantastic captain and one of the best centre halves the club has ever had. If we didn't have him this season, we would be in the bottom 3, I reckon. He does Stones's defending for him.

There is no need to bribe freely
Thank God, the English referee
But given what the man will do
Unbribed, there is no reason to.

Agree with you that it is how we are coached, because the same thing happens over and over again, and was the main reason are season collapsed last year, when an exasperated Goodison finally voiced their opinion when the players chose to just ride the game out once again, against QPR.

I sit and despair at our defensive positions sometimes, but just as he looks like he his going back to basics to try and solidify us, he goes and makes an absolutely crazy sub to fix something that wasn't broken (which was definitely the case the other night).

What they are saying is the referee was arrogant and out of order with his reply to Jagielka's complaint. It mightn't have changed the outcome of the game, it certainly did not help Everton and that is a fact.

A pal of mine, season ticket holder at Goodison, is married to a RS season ticket holder. I know, marriage made in Hell. They are both working in finance, and some years ago attended a dinner in which the after dinner speaker was a former referee. I know his name but I won't publish it for obvious reasons.

Talking with the RS wife afterwards about a derby he'd refereed, he commented that he "Couldn't give them a penalty" after Nevin was brought down in the box for what was a nailed on pen. The guy was a Liverpool fan. I have sometimes suspected referees have their favourites, apart from the ones they are expected to favour like the Sky shower, but that really pissed me off.

I thought that they all had to confess allegiance to a team that they supported so that they would never be in a position where they were refereeing "their" team. All of the above is true and none of it surprises me.

Think of the shit which refs take from players in football compared to the relative respect for refs and their decisions shown in rugby, cricket, etc. A more serious issue is the reversal of that throw-in for time-wasting – where in the rules...?

Funny that Jagielka says Atkinson told him it was a foul throw as his mouth and body actions suggested differently.

For:
Lukaku potentially off side for Funes Mori's goal first leg semi's
Mirallas tackle on Navas in the first leg, no pen
Stones tackle on Sterling in the league, no pen

Against:
Terry goal v Chelsea, both over time and offside
Man City first goal second leg, Sterling potentially off side
Ball out for second goal

It's fair to say the officiating has been poor since the turn of the year, but we've had just as much luck as we've been shafted.

Law 12 allows referees to caution players who delay the restart of play by tactics such as appearing to take a throw-in but suddenly leaving it to one of his teammates to take, or excessively delaying the taking of a throw-in or free kick; again nothing about reversing the decision on which team takes the throw-in.

This one should be challenged by Everton.

Ray, I actually agree with that. Not getting in their face means they can make a 50-50 call against us knowing they won't get a verbal spanking.

Brent, I think I'm right in saying Stones didn't actually get to throw the ball so yes, it should be brought up as it couldn't have been a foul throw.

I'm joking – they don't use the "RS" term.

We all thought we would go on and win the cup but, in true Everton fashion, we were beaten in the next round by West Ham in a night game.

Jake, I've no problem with showing a few incidents where we've had the rub of the green but if you include the pens given against us v Stoke City and Man City last season and the two red cards not issued to Man City players

And, if you look at, say, the penalty count for the Premier era...

Man City = 72
Man Utd = 76
Chelsea = 78
Arsenal = 72
Liverpool = 80
Everton = 50
Villa = 59
Spurs = 58.

Something of a disparity, I would suggest. Now, I know that there is a counter argument that the top sides do more attacking, but even when we finished top 4 or 5 we only got 1 and 2 penalties and our attacking play this season has resulted in... er... no penalties.

I think that there is a definite bias towards the teams that produce the most revenue for the Premier League and Sky in televised revenue.

I remember it well. Nevin was cut in half by Gary Ablett.
Read the reports here:

http://www.lfchistory.net/Images/newspapers/riley/19910217vEverton.pdf

Howard Kendall chose to bolt and chain his defence by adding Keown to Watson and Ratcliffe and bringing in the Dutchman Atteveld to clamp Barnes. The ploy worked perfectly...

Now there's an idea for the next time we are ahead in a cup tie. Oh, I forgot, we don't want to be that kind of team.

''His shin pad has gone to hospital,'' Howard Kendall, the Everton manager, said.

My enthusiasm and belief in fair-play had been worn down, that was nearly a quarter-of-a-century ago and not much has changed has it? Never mind... we keep going in the hope that the Blues can overcome the odds and win something – and soon.

The same referee did the second match, going into the ground before the match, at the Stanley Park end, my mate asked him why he didn't give the penalty, he just shrugged and smirked, I had to grab my mate to keep him off the bastard.

Don't know if he did the third game, when Dave Watson scored the only goal, we've been robbed by those horrible 'ashamed of nothing' cheating bastards for years and some of those decisions definitely cost us plenty.

I don't agree with all this unlucky nonsense and poor refereeing decisions, the fact is that the other team has played to the whistle, made a chance to score, and we have failed to deal with it.

It's not just an isolated incident, free headers given to Crystal Palace, reckless penalties, silly mix ups, defending too deep and not pushing out for offside thus the Chelsea Terry offside the linesman missed. It's not just Everton – it happens every week in the Premier League and the only way to fix it is to introduce camera replays just like cricket LBWs.

It will fix the debatable and questionable decisions and show the cheats who should be red carded. The ref can call the third umpire and cover his arse. I would start with all Premier League games and crucial cup games.

My memory is that it was at the Anfield Road end.

http://basstunedtored.com/2012/10/25/whos-the-ref/

You don't mention the 2 Stoke City incidents. Jeff Cameron takes out Coleman – No penalty.
John Stones plays the ball before Arnoutovic trips over him – Penalty to Stoke.
Or the Ashley Williams and Neil Taylor hand ball shouts v Swansea

All the penalty decisions are all based on the Referee's opinion. Lukaku and Sterling offside decisions are based on Linesman's opinion of whether they were active (imo – if they are on the pitch... they are active).

Jon Terry's offside and the ball out the other night are simple yes or no decisions – which went against affecting the results of both matches.

I think borderline decisions go against us far more often than they go for us. The reasons for this are:

* We are a soft touch – there is no Captain in the ref's ear all match (a la Gerrard & Terry),

* Referees aren't mobbed like gulls targeting a kid with chips at the seaside, when decisions go against us (a is every professional team in the world):

* The media never care when it is us on the receiving end (as Hinchcliffe's comment the other day confirms);

* The manager is too nice and wants to be everybody's friend.

The fact there seems to be a glut of deflected goals also flying into our net also heightens the feeling of being hard done to.

We all know that defending better would solve a lot of our problems, but when the officials and lady luck go against us too, it becomes a case of siege mentality.

RM spouting nonsense after each match just makes things worse!

So, until this changes, nothing else will and we will continue to see crap seemingly biased performances by the Premier League refs!

Good points well made, and I do agree (the decisions I picked were just the one's that has stuck in my head in recent weeks)

We also haven't had a share of the luck, deflected goals for, eg, one against Swansea City and Man City in the space of 4 days. I suppose it's the fact some people think if we'd had a better rub of the green our season would have been dramatically different, when the simple fact is we just have not been good enough, plain and simple.

I'm 27 and have been supporting/following Everton since I can remember (for me that's since '95), throughout the late '90s and '00s we played worse than this, relegation survival being priority #1 nearly every season. I still enjoyed watching us play because, with the squad we had, they were the only expectations we could ever really have.

Moyes took us up a gear big time, and I feel left the club at the right time, I don't think he could have taken us any further, we needed fresh blood at the helm to take us to the next level. Until recently, I thought we'd made the right decision with RM; even when the majority on here were negative, I was patiently giving him time. But even I'm now starting to lose my patience, with the quality currently available to us, I think anything less than a top 6/7 battle is embarrassing.

Going back to my original point, yes we were unlucky against Chelsea, but we should know how to see a game out, yes we were unlucky against Stoke City, but at home we shouldn't be threatened with a draw let alone a collapse with 15 mins to go against a mid-table team.

Yes, we were unlucky against Man City on Wednesday, but if you want my honest opinion, even if it was disallowed I don't think that would have changed the outcome. We seem to be spending a lot of time dwelling on the past, when we need to brush ourselves off and focus on the next game.

Again, just an opinion, but looking through pessimistic eyes for one of the first times in my lift I think that's the honest truth.

My memory was the tackle was made by Gary Ablett?

So many decisions are proved wrong by replays that it is reaching epidemic proportions, offside calls especially are given if the 'offender' has the width of a toe or head showing past the line and in dozens of cases not offside at all, Also now being tolerated on a regular basis are the penalty area 'wrestling matches' which are never called or given to the perpetrating defenders.

With most grounds now equipped with giant TV screens it is a total disgrace that this technology is ignored when instant replays are available in seconds yet is used as evidence by the FA to decide player punishment or innocence, As a lifetime Everton supporter and while I agree that we have more than our fair share of wrong calls and ref bias this official incompetence is now widespread in our game and needs addressing ASAP.

It must also be said that the hypocrisy and cynicism in football would probably see teams trying to use it to an "unfair" or time wasting advantage in a similar way to substitutions being used to slow an oppositions momentum in a game's final minutes. It must also be asked if we really want to slow the game in a similar way to American Football yellow flagging an incident.

It would appear that we must settle for clubs' assessment/marking of referees and the officials appointments being more open to scrutiny. May be the answer lies in having match officials front press conferences in the same way as managers.

Won't digress further about the exact details but in field hockey, which is by nature a faster sport than football anyway, it hardly slows the game.

That would result in a "level playing field" for all. That just wouldn't do for the financial side of football would it?

We should never STFU about this. It should be screamed from the rooftops and officials shamed and questioned at every opportunity.

If it isn't about fairness then don't call it a sport. Why should I or anyone spend good and hard earn't money on something that I can't trust.

Allowing only one incorrect call (cricket's two every new ball, for want of a better term) probably would not stop the dissatisfaction with poor refereeing decisions so it would seem that there has to be some follow up procedure.

I do have to admit that I do not know the depth of proficient match officials that might allow for referees to be "dropped" to lower levels or allow the promotion of others but a more open system might be a start.

I think you might be right. I suspect there is a scandal about to hit football. I just hate conspiracy stuff but athletics is corrupt, tennis apparently, why not football? I have always respected referees and thought they were in it for the right reasons.

Now, well it is had to respect many of them.I fear that certain clubs carry weight with officials. They, I am fairly confident, are not getting financial reward, but are getting ego boosting familiarity. That, in my view, is why they do it, for recognition.

Certain types become policemen, and, with some honourable exceptions, certain types become referees. Can you imagine having a beer with any of them?

No.

But I can imagine headbutting a few of them.

For me it was when Fellaini got pulled at Man City a few seasons back for holding a player in the box from a corner.

The result was a penalty for City. The question for me was why were there hardly any penalties from all the holdings from all the corners week in week out in the Prem?

It became really obvious. Since holding or grabbing your opponents neck is by any stretch a foul and is NOT given by refs, in the main, then it must be being used as a tool to disadvantage one team over another.

If questioned the ref will simply say that on the one hand he didn't see anything untoward as in the norm, or, he'll just say he saw it and blew for the foul.

The MO on this scenario is flawless.

I also commented on the Rom header just before half time. The whistle was effin blatant. Another good one for the refs is when a team score a goal blow the whistle for an infringement off the ball. It works every time. (And we all know where we saw that little gem.)

That little media shit ex ref Graham Poll agreed with Atkinson. But hey if you've got three yellow cards in a World Cup you may as well use them!

So I had to ask myself.

Why do you hate conspiracy theory stuff? It happens and the actual truth should always be the best, not the potentially sanitized version. That applies to warmongers, politicians, financiers, royal households, sporting power brokers, the police, and yes even referees.

The difficulty with conspiracy theorists is it is usually more difficult, imaginative and painful than being happy bunnies. Also whilst I accept that happy bunnies are usually more often right than conspiracy theorists, conspiracies doe occur, exist whatever.

The term "conspiracy theorist" was coined by one section of society to stop the other section of society from asking to many awkward questions.

These type of statements are yawningly obvious truisms. They are also a boring insult to the intelligence behind which anyone with a balanced view can see it is veiled or unveiled criticism of the club. Whether that be Bill, The Board, RM or Jags, it is just plain boring.

The plain truth is we got to a Semi-Final – we got knocked out unfairly as the rules are supposed to stand.

Yes, we have a young side; yes, the manager has emphasized a style of attacking play that does not emphasize defence first and forget about skilful passing attacking moves with advanced full backs.

Yes, RM is not renowned for his defensive set-ups.

Yes, we have a bunch of young talent that is evolving and will go through ups and downs.

Yes we have a goalkeeper situation that needs to be fixed – and so on.

However we got to a Semi-Final – RM has collected a set of young talent that is so much more valuable than previous squads – they are assets we can sell... and are assets that hopefully can develop into a top 4 or 6 side with great potential.

And most pertinent fact of this match is an out-of-play goal – even if they score the second anyway, then we go through on away goals. Opinion – but if that goal doesn't stand then we weather the storm – no encouragement to City players or fans, and we secure possession and build our confidence and we play out the game easily.

It is plain injustice. (Technology is needed – or just a slight change in rule to allow 4th official to pull play back even after a goal is awarded.)

That will be the future!! You heard it here first..