Premier League make huge Anthony Taylor referee decision after Arsenal vs Liverpool controversy

Anthony Taylor, the man behind decisions not to award Arsenal a penalty against Liverpool and stopping play early before Gabriel Jesus had the ball in the net late on for a possible winner, has been handed another Premier League assignment. As one of the senior PGMOL referees, it is no surprise.

However, Taylor infuriated Arsenal supporters after choosing not to give a foul on Gabriel Martinelli in the first half of Sunday's crunch title meeting. The official then blew his whistle after Jakub Kiwior was deemed to have fouled Dominik Szoboszlai in a move that would end with Arsenal scoring.

As play had already been halted, VAR was unable to go back and make a ruling on the challenge by Kiwior, which has split opinion. Despite Kai Havertz going close to a handball as he fought Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate in the air, football.london understands that Taylor had spotted an infringement from Kiwior prior.

Taylor is not the first referee to frustrate Arsenal's players and manager, with Rob Jones sending off William Saliba one week earlier. Jarred Gillett was on VAR for that match. Chris Kavanagh and Michael Oliver have also given out red cards to Arsenal players in the league, with Michael Salisbury involved on VAR for Sunday's eventual 2-2 draw.

The league have now announced the latest round of referee appointments. Arsenal travel to Newcastle on Saturday in the early kick-off. That will be overseen by John Brooks, who was in charge of Chelsea's incident-laden 2-1 defeat to Liverpool just over a week ago.

Gillett is on VAR duty for the match at St James' Park and Darren Cann is assistant. As for Taylor, he will be at Molineux for Wolves' clash with Crystal Palace.

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Salisbury will be at Stockley Park on VAR as Chelsea take on Manchester United. Jones is centre stage for that one as Nick Hopton assists on VAR. It comes at a time whereby more and more attention is being paid to refereeing decisions.

Speaking about the Arsenal vs Liverpool calls made by Taylor, former referee Dermot Gallagher explained that the so-called disallowed goal was blown out of proportion. "I think this is something out of nothing because, if you look, the referee has clearly given a foul before that and gives a foul, I think against Kiwior for jumping against an opponent. He gives it long, long, long before the player gets the goal," he said on Sky Sports' Ref Watch. "He gives the first foul."

Was that the correct decision, though? "Maybe he's just run it through his mind, but that's the foul he gave. He didn't give the foul by Havertz, he gave the one by Kiwior.

"I think it's one that if the referee gives it he gives it, if he doesn't give it then there's 50-50 decisions that can go either way in games, I think that's one of them."