Mike Verweij keeps himself in the Kick-Offpodcast from The Telegraph not about Allard Lindhout. The referee would get a stadium ban, the football journalist even jokingly says. The arbiter refused on Sunday to give a penalty in the final phase to Vitesse attacker Loïs Openda, who was pulled down in the penalty area by FC Utrecht defender Willem Janssen. Even video referee Ingmar Oostrom couldn’t change Lindhout’s mind. Incomprehensible, Verweij judges a day later.
“And what has also influenced me too much is the way in which Openda falls”, Lindhout said on Sunday after the game in De Galgenwaard in conversation with Hans Kraay junior of ESPN† “The images on this side, if I look at it again in peace, then holding Janssen is very clear. I also saw that in the match, you know. So I understand that the VAR intervenes and calls me for this. Then your own conviction, and what you have seen and your own experience, is still too much in the way of this”, according to the guilty Lindhout.
Allard Lindhout admits that he had to give Vitesse a penalty. “Your own conviction is too much in the way” pic.twitter.com/0yeiRdIRAE
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“Openda was detained, got a bang on his head and was then pushed to the ground again,” Verweij looks back on Sunday’s much-discussed incident. “Well, it is incomprehensible that no penalty is given for this. But that he remains stuck in his own right. I have news for Lindhout: he is simply not good enough. He is not called Blindhout by his colleagues for nothing. What he has very much against is that he comes from the same village as Dick van Egmond (referee boss of the KNVB, ed.), that is his neighbor, and according to colleagues he gets the matches because he is an acquaintance of Van Egmond. quality, when you see him whistling, I find that really astonishing,” concludes the surprised Verweij.
Presenter Hein Keijser then wonders what the solution is if the VAR is used in such a situation overruled by a referee. “Yes, of course this didn’t seem like anything at all”, Valentijn Driessen adds. “What he (Lindhout, ed.) is raving about again. Yes, that is not about anything at all. This was crystal clear† (The penalty situation with Openda, ed.). It’s just like Mike says, Lindhout just isn’t up to the job. And it always goes wrong, doesn’t it, because it has already gone wrong at FC Utrecht-PSV. Then it was Pol van Boekel. Maybe it has to do with that stadium. What does he call then? mind fuck or something† Allard Lindhout tries to go the extra mile on that,” Driessen cynically tells the referee.
Lois Openda screams for a penalty after being pulled down by Willem Janssen.
“What everyone ignores: that red card (for Adrian Grbic, ed.) is given to Vitesse for that violation on Mike van der Hoorn. Yes, the rules state that the elbow must be used as a weapon, and it was a very unfortunate action”, Verweij refers to the red card for the Vitesse striker. “And I can imagine that he gives red, but a lot of his colleagues there also think that this is absolutely not a red card. In fact, if you give it internationally, you have to sit on the penalty bench at UEFA. And that’s something I think of: Yes, this man is also made international by Dick van Egmond† While he shows time and again that he really just can’t handle it”, the football follower concludes his hard story about Lindhout.