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Referee pundit gives verdict on Stoke City penalty and red card claim vs Millwall
Dermot Gallagher is in no doubt that referee Will Finnie will have been told to sort out his positioning after missing a clear penalty and red card in Stoke City's draw with Millwall.
Stoke players and supporters were stunned - and the Millwall camp admitted they had got away with one - after Wouter Burger was pulled back by Jake Cooper inside the six-yard box as the Potters were looking for an equaliser early in the second half at the bet365 Stadium on Saturday. Burger was then booked for dissent as he complained and will miss Stoke's next match, away at Queens Park Rangers. Stoke still went on to pull level at 1-1 thanks to a goal from Ben Gibson.
It should have been a red card as well as a penalty because Cooper made no attempt to play the ball.
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Former Premier League referee Gallagher reviewed the incident in Sky Sports' weekly Ref Watch feature and said: "If I can explain something here, it's a penalty and red card for me. He makes no attempt to play the ball and grabs at him. He'd have had a clear shot at goal; penalty and red card.
"What I would say in defence of the referee is that he's a development referee. He will have spoken to his coach since that game. He'll go through it. The first the coach will tell him is that he's in the wrong position. He's clearly in the wrong position. He's gone too far to the side so he hasn't got a view of it at all. He can't make the decision. The coach will have said he needs to work on this. Give yourself the best viewing option.
"Often when we see decisions that referees get right I can say it's because the referee has worked really hard to get that view. This lad, for whatever reason, stood still and the coach will have told him he can't do that. You've got to be mobile. You've got to give yourself the opportunity. That's why the mistake was made."
Stoke boss Narcis Pelach refused to put blame on the ref for his side only drawing against the in-form visitors.
He said: “It is frustrating but I've spoken to the players to try to help them understand what life is. You can get frustrated then stay in that state all the time you want and you are going to change nothing. Or you accept it has happened. It is the third time in 11 games that the referee has apologised to me but I went to him and said, 'Don't do it, it's fine. You are a human being, I'm a human being, I do mistakes in my job, you do mistakes in yours, today has gone that way, next day it will go the other way or not, we can't change it, it's fine.'
“It has happened. The referee didn't see it. We focus on the next thing else we live in a mental state of excuses and that's something I don't want for me or my players and I'm talking to them a lot about. I keep saying we have to focus on what we can control and do things about. It's fine.”
