Linesman v Robertson

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Who was at fault

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Robertson approached the linesmen aggressively.
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The official certainly didn't 'elbow' Robertson aggressively, more of a defensive 'get back' gesture but because Robertson had made a beeline towards the official his forward motion took him into the officials personal space

we also got to look how soft some of these footballers are and the fact they go down clutching at anything pretending to be shot
then jumping up to square up to the opponent, when the opponent has said 'get up you soft ****e'

I personally think Robertson should get a 3 game ban and a stern waring on his future conduct
the Official will get 3 games off to recover

If the official gets banned as what Liverpool Fans want, I could see a potential problem with further officials not wanting to officiate certain games
or going on strike in support of the official
 
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This really doesn’t look like walking past him. It’s a 10000sq m football pitch. There is absolutely no need for him to get this close.
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I am not having a go at Liverpool players in particular - all teams are doing it but it really needs to stop. The referees are talking too much with players - they need to stop. They don’t need to explain decisions, just get on with game.

Watch the video. He’s walking towards the tunnel and the lino is walking away from the tunnel to the ref.
 
It should be no touching of officials whatsoever apart from a handshake..none of this putting the arm on shoulder when talking to them etc, if you allow some touching it then allows this sort of thing to creep in like the Mitro and Robertson incident.

If you touch a ref or lino apart from a handshake instant 5 match ban, they'd sharp stop doing it.

Sorry are you trying to say that being allowed to touch a ref on the shoulder leads to mitrovic barging into him and shouting swearing in his face? Absolute nonsense.

Do you want everyone to just be robots? Nothing wrong with having a friendly chat with referees. Used to do it all the time on a weekend. It’s always good to have a good relationship with them so you just have a chat before and during games
 
Sorry are you trying to say that being allowed to touch a ref on the shoulder leads to mitrovic barging into him and shouting swearing in his face? Absolute nonsense.

Do you want everyone to just be robots? Nothing wrong with having a friendly chat with referees. Used to do it all the time on a weekend. It’s always good to have a good relationship with them so you just have a chat before and during games

Might I recommend a course on body language?
 
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If you are saying the video doesn't show clearly enough that Robertson grabbed the linos arm, then I would state the same video doesn't show clearly enough the lino actually 'elbowed' Robertson - rather he just shrugged his arm towards Robertson.

You can't say one is accidential/didn't happen, while the other is a blatant assault, purely based on that poor quality video footage. If the lino gets in trouble, so shouod Robertson. End of.

Don’t think I’ve said anywhere it’s blatant assault lol. I know you like putting things in your mouth but no need to put words in mine <whistle>

I said in my initial post, nothing should happen. Robbo should come out and diffuse the situation in my opinion, unless he honestly was having a polite conversation and the lino has massively overreacted and hit him with force, but only those two will know that.
 
To be fair, Robertson was only trying to help remind the official who his actual employer is and that he wouldn't be paid unless he started to follow agreed protocols.
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What have man United got to do with this?
 
Nothing we're the club that will be challenging them now thought not Liverpool...

Thanks for everything we will take over from here.
 
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Your player was approaching the referee aggressively surely you can see that?

video shows him walking towards the tunnel and lino in the exact same way every other player and official is walking ffs <laugh>

Tbf, the lino shouldn’t be banned for the elbow. What he should be banned for is managing to give Jesus a foul for a horrendous dive only 10 yards away from him.
 
video shows him walking towards the tunnel and lino in the exact same way every other player and official is walking ffs <laugh>

Tbf, the lino shouldn’t be banned for the elbow. What he should be banned for is managing to give Jesus a foul for a horrendous dive only 10 yards away from him.

We can have different views .

So anyway how's your feelings and thoughts on Newcastle becoming the next galacticos ?