Liverpool and Everton get referee verdict over Merseyside derby controversy

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Dewsbury-Hall attempted to take an Everton free-kick before referee Darren England had blown his whistle, and was subsequently shown a yellow card.

And it's true that this isn't something you see enforced every week.

But on the other hand, characterizing it as a quick free kick (as everyone seems to have done) is a little disingenuous.



and we're talking about a too-quickly taken free kick and a yellow card," Gallagher said.

"I'm not sure it was a yellow card, but I don't know what Darren said to him.

"It's interesting because we look where the free kick was, where they're set up, it's not as if he was setting up 10 yards because they're on the edge of the center circle.

So why he had to set up [like he did], I don't know, but he was in middle-land wasn't he, whether he felt he had to get there, only he knows.

"But it's just one of them.

A yellow card could only be justifiable based on England clearly telling Dewsbury-Hall to wait, and even then it's a somewhat surprising decision — but if you'll excuse the informality for a moment, it's simply not that deep.

Obviously, it's always nice to have someone to blame, but neither Moyes, nor Grealish, nor anyone else truly thinks this decision was impactful on the result