Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer agree on controversial Liverpool vs Everton referee incident

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Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer have both agreed that Everton midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall shouldn't have been given a yellow card for taking a free-kick too quickly during Saturday's Merseyside derby against Liverpool.

Referee Darren England booked Dewsbury-Hall, 27, in the 78th minute after he attempted to speed up the game with a quick free-kick.

Meanwhile, Jack Grealish criticised the referee in his post-match interview, claiming he has never seen a player get booked for taking a quick free-kick in his entire career, suggesting that the Anfield crowd may have influenced the decision.



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"I've never seen a player in my whole life get booked for taking a quick free-kick," Grealish told TNT Sports.

They got a yellow card for taking a quick free-kick.

"Now, it should be encouraged – this is one of my pet peeves, what we need in the game is for free-kicks to be taken a lot quicker because at the moment it takes like a minute.

"Everyone gets organised, the referee has to wait, he tells them to wait, this and that, everyone gets back.

So someone gets fouled like they did yesterday, they take a quick free-kick and then they're penalised, double penalised."

Shearer then labelled the decision as "madness", expressing his frustration at Dewsbury-Hall's yellow card.

"Unless you're taking it from a ridiculous spot, like 20 or 30 yards nearer to the goal or something like that," Shearer said.

Your the team that had the foul given for you, yet you're getting booked for taking a quick free-kick on the spot.

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