Argh, I don't want to be the PGMOL writer, but already today, we're seeing the ramifications of an out-of-control organization running riot on the Premier League because they have no direction, lack leadership, and put too few controls on how the game should be managed.
Cody Gakpo won an extremely soft penalty that I'm being told is very much letter of the law. Kai Havertz had one overturned that looked far more like an actual penalty. Which is it?
There was a clash of heads in the penalty box in the Brighton vs Forest game. No penalty. Why? Because a norm of the game is that you sometimes get clattered when two players make an honest attempt for the ball. But when the clash of heads happened against Saliba, the refs played to a letter-of-the-law moment. How can the same organization have two wildly different interpretations here?
You're either a stickler for the rules and everything is by the book, or you are someone who lets the game flow and tries to keep the spirit of the game intact.
