Liverpool hero Robbie Fowler has taken aim Howard Webb and the PGMOL
Former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler has hit out at PGMOL chief Howard Webb for his attempts to explain how his old side were not awarded a second penalty against Manchester City earlier this month.
READ MORE: Bayer Leverkusen star makes 'silent' Xabi Alonso claim amid double Liverpool transfer links "Which is why Howard Webb appears to be taking us all for fools with his rather creative takes on some of the calamitous mistakes that are bringing the Premier League into disrepute. "Anyone who watched the game knew that Doku got away with one. Not just in terms of referee Michael Oliver missing the offence as it happened, but in the way VAR official Stuart Attwell failed to advise him to take another look on the pitch-side monitor despite being armed with replays of the incident from every conceivable angle.
"I’m sorry, Howard, but every time I hear you trying to explain away these decisions, you come across as a jobsworth doing what he can to defend his mates," Fowler continued. "Football belongs to fans and players. But it’s been ambushed by administrators and officials who are trying to make the game perfect. They don’t understand that it’s those imperfections that make football what it is.
"But VAR has given them a get-out clause. If they make a mistake and it isn’t corrected at Stockley Park then they can’t be blamed. As an added insurance policy they have an old mate or the boss in the television studio trying to sell us the idea that everything is actually on point."
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