{"id":367006,"date":"2025-12-24T06:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367006\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:23:06","slug":"they-dont-make-it-easy-moyes-frustrated-by-pgmo-reluctance-to-explain-decisions-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367006\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They don\u2019t make it easy\u2019: Moyes frustrated by PGMO reluctance to explain decisions | Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Moyes has claimed Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO) is reluctant to engage with managers because so many refereeing \u00addecisions this season have been difficult to explain. The Everton manager said he was left \u201chalf-choking\u201d when Fulham were awarded what proved to be a match-winning penalty<\/a> against Nottingham Forest on Monday for Douglas Luiz\u2019s touch on Fulham\u2019s Kevin.<\/p>\n

Everton were denied a penalty on Saturday for a similar offence by William Saliba on Thierno Barry during their home defeat by Arsenal<\/a>. Moyes did not criticise the decision at the time but in light of Fulham\u2019s penalty feels the inconsistency of referees can not be ignored.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was half-choking last night when I saw the decision given and ours wasn\u2019t,\u201d said the Everton<\/a> manager. \u201cIt feels as though certain clubs get those decisions and other clubs don\u2019t. We seem to be on the latter side of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was one earlier in the season at Brentford with [Virgil] van Dijk which was quite similar and I think eventually it was given. We are disappointed it wasn\u2019t given on the night and we are looking at others which have been.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he intended to present his case to referee chiefs, Moyes said: \u201cI don\u2019t really know. They don\u2019t make it easy whatever you want. They don\u2019t want to have a conversation about it really. They will have [one], but they don\u2019t want to because they\u2019re finding it probably very difficult to explain things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moyes\u2019s concerns are not limited to decisions against his team. He said \u201cthe more worrying thing\u201d about Arsenal\u2019s win on Saturday was Sam Barrott, missing the clear handball by Jake O\u2019Brien that produced the decisive penalty, until the video assistant referee recommended a review.<\/p>\n

Everton\u2019s Jake O\u2019Brien gives away a penalty at Arsenal. Photograph: Oli Scarff\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely the on-field referee didn\u2019t need VAR to decide that Jake had his two hands up in the air?\u201d Moyes said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s me going against my own team. Why did he need to wait on VAR to make that decision? He had to go to the pitchside monitor. What was the linesman doing on the side? The linesman was behind it where he must have seen his arms going up, but he didn\u2019t make the call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point I\u2019m making is that surely they should be making the call. Maybe he didn\u2019t see [William] Saliba kicking, but the consistency comes from those sort of actions \u2013 have you seen if he kicked through the back of someone\u2019s leg or he gets there first?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to see soft \u00adpenalty kicks. I\u2019m not a believer of soft penalty kicks, maybe that was my \u00adthinking after the [Arsenal] game, but after what I saw last night, I\u2019m saying: \u2018Well, if that\u2019s the way it\u2019s going to be, why are we not getting the same\u00a0decisions?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Moyes has claimed Professional Game Match Officials (PGMO) is reluctant to engage with managers because so many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-367006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}