Major rule change proposed after Liverpool vs Everton controversy - ‘All for it’
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Former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg has proposed that independent timekeepers could determine added time at the end of a game's 90 minutes.
First half goals from Ryan Gravenberch and Hugo Ekitike gave the Reds a 2-0 lead, while Idrissa Gueye’s goal halved the deficit in the second half, Everton were unable to find an equaliser.
Three minutes were added to the end of the game to allow for stoppages, but both Jack Grealish and Toffees boss David Moyes aired their frustrations at the decision.
Even the stoppage time, three minutes and one minute – I’ve never seen that in the Premier League in the last two or three years."
Moyes said: “Three minutes was very strange.
If you put all that down on paper, you could have seven or eight minutes – like we saw in the World Cup previously, where we were playing 12 or 13 minutes of injury time,” he said on the Beyond the Back Four podcast.
“I’m not sure that’s what the players want, because they’re already playing extra time and getting injuries.
Do we really want to get back to an approach where referees lose control of the timekeeping and it’s done by an external person?
“I’m all for it, but the purists and traditionalists will always say, ‘No, no, no, it should always be in the referee’s hands.’
“But there are so many complaints about added-on time, especially if you’re losing 2-1.
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