🚨EXCLUSIVE :Anthony Taylor learns verdict after Premier League panel decides on controversial call

Anthony Taylor has found himself at the center of more controversy after the Premier League panel ruled that Morgan Gibbs-White should not have been sent off in Nottingham Forest’s draw with Brighton.

   Taylor was the fourth official of the game at the Amex Stadium – one of two games in the last Premier League matchweek where he was given the honour.    He was removed from his refereeing duties after receiving online threats following Bournemouth’s game against Chelsea last weekend – a game in which he handed out a record 14 yellow cards to players and two to managers.

   Rob Jones was in the middle of Brighton’s game against Forest and Gibbs-White received a second yellow card for a challenge on Joao Pedro.    Jones consulted with Taylor and others before deciding to send the England international.

   Both managers, Forest’s Nuno Espirito Santo and Brighton’s Fabian Hurzeler, were sent off for their responses to the incident.    The Premier League’s Major Events Panel investigated a number of controversial events from the final matchweek and ruled three to two that Gibbs-White should have stayed on the pitch.


   According to the panel’s rulings, shared by ESPN, the argument for Gibbs-White avoiding his second yellow card was that it was “a strong challenge at full speed but below the threshold of a second booking”.    On the other side of the argument, one argued that “the intensity of the challenge is too high and it is a reckless engagement that shows a disregard for the consequences for the opponent”.

   Taylor and referee Michael Oliver will both be in the middle of Game 6 despite both being embroiled in controversy.    Oliver was in charge of Manchester City against Arsenal on Sunday, showing Gunners star Leandro Trossard a second yellow card to delay the restart, with the panel ruling by four to one that the decision was correct.

   “I don’t want to say too much, but the referee has to do his job for me, to watch the game well, but with this kind of action, they don’t have to try too hard.”    Trossard’s teammate Riccardo Calafiori told Sky Sports after the match.

   Other decisions reviewed by the panel include West Ham’s penalty appeal against Chelsea being rejected and Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez’s challenge against Crystal Palace.    They ruled Wesley Fofana’s tackle on Crysencia Summerville should have been awarded a penalty on the pitch, but the threshold was not high enough to award it via VAR after referee Sam Barrott said no.

   United defender Martinez was shown a yellow card after jumping for a challenge on Palace’s Daichi Kamada.    “The committee was very strongly of the opinion that challenges of this nature have no place on the field,” the written findings said, but the referee on the field, David Coote, was unanimous that he had made the correct decision, as Martinez preferred to land on the ball.  .    than making contact with your opponent.

   The man Mark Warburton saw things differently during a BBC Radio 5 live broadcast.    “I’m surprised Lisandro Martinez wasn’t sent off for that tackle, it could have broken Kamada’s ankle and that’s not the kind of tackle we want to see in our game,” said the former QPR and Rangers manager.