The Premier League's updated guidelines and methods of enforcing them have come under fire already this season
People "like Bruno Fernandes and Andy Robertson" are to thank for the new hardline stance of refereeing in the Premier League, says TalkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan.
Two of those have been to Liverpool in their last two matches, Alexis Mac Allister in the second half against Bournemouth and Virgil van Dijk in the first half against Newcastle United.READ MORE: Konate, Thiago, Jones - Liverpool injury news and return dates "There's this refusal to accept authority on the pitch," he told TalkSPORT. "You do not hear [after a] rugby game the media feeling the necessity to interrogate a refereeing decision up hill and down dale.
"They can thank people like Bruno Fernandes or Andy Robertson for pushing it to such a point last year that the refereeing fraternity were like 'right, that will do'."
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