Premier League chief calls ref Anthony Taylor ‘f***ing useless’ and gets banned
Wolves sporting director Matt Hobbs has been hit with a match ban for calling Premier League referee Anthony Taylor “f****** useless”.
Hobbs aimed the insult at Taylor following Wolves’ 2-2 draw with Newcastle in October as the officials left the pitch. The match had seen a controversial decision to award Newcastle a penalty after Hwang Hee-chan was adjudged to have fouled Fabian Schar by VAR.
The decision earned the Magpies a point and left Wolves furious. After hearing the remark, Taylor said such behaviour was unacceptable and alleged in an FA hearing earlier this month that Hobbs replied: "We look forward to your apology again."
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Hobbs was subsequently charged by the FA with misconduct for a breach of FA Rule E3.1, issued with a £4,000 fine and a one-match ban. Wolves have been left furious by several referee and VAR decisions on numerous occasions already this season and as recently as this week in Monday’s 3-2 defeat at Fulham.
VAR sent referee Michael Salisbury to the screen to award a penalty after Wolves’ Joao Gomes brought Harry Wilson down in the box. Willian scored his second spot-kick of the game to seal all three points for Fulham.
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O’Neil, who spoke with Salisbury after the game, highlighted the decisions involving the late penalty, Carlos Vinicius’ alleged headbutt on Max Kilman and why Tim Ream did not receive a second yellow for a foul on Hwang.
“I’ve had a real grown-up conversation in there with him,” he said. “I’m trying to remain calm. I’m not angry with anybody. I’m not in there abusing people.
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“It’s literally a conversation around, ‘come on, guys, it’s six, seven points now that have gone against us, I’m managing a big football club here, and the difference that you’re making to my reputation, to the club’s progression up the league, to people’s livelihoods is huge’.
“It can’t be that with all the technology and all the time and the biggest league in the world that we’re getting so many wrong. It can’t be OK.
“I’ve always been for VAR but I think it’s causing a big problem at the moment. Maybe tonight has finally turned me against VAR when I thought it would probably help, but it doesn’t seem to be.”
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