WOLVES’ sporting director has been fined and handed a BAN after swearing at referee Anthony Taylor.
The FA charged Matt Hobbs with misconduct after he called Taylor “f***ing useless” following Wolves’ 2-2 controversial draw with Newcastle.
Gary O’Neill’s side went behind to a questionable penalty following an extremely lengthy VAR check.
The Wolves manager himself branded the decision “scandalous.”
And following the game, Hobbs swore at Taylor while also sarcastically saying “we look forward to your apology again.”
Hobbs, who expressed remorse over his misconduct, said he had become “increasingly frustrated” over the decisions from Taylor.
He has now been banned for Wolves’ next game against Arsenal.
And Hobbs must also pay a £4,000 fine after Wolves were caught up in another VAR storm against Fulham.
Boss O’Neill was left incensed as the Cottagers were handed two controversial penalties in a 3-2 win, while also seeing Fulham escape several red cards.
And he claims referee Michael Salisbury ADMITTED he and VAR had got crucial decisions wrong during the game.
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O’Neill said: “We discussed a lot of decisions. Vinicius should have been sent off for headbutting Max [Kilman]. Clear, he headbutts him on the nose. Isn’t sent off, is given a yellow.
“Tim Ream should have been sent off for a second bookable offence on the penalty. They’re both my opinions on those, obviously everyone can have their own.
“The penalties that went against us, Nelson plays the ball, doesn’t touch Tom Cairney. I watched that back with the referee and, to be fair to him, he says he thinks they’ve got that wrong and he should have been sent to the monitor.
“Doesn’t help me, doesn’t help all the fans that have travelled all this way to watch the team, doesn’t help the players who are feeling frustrated again.
“So the Nelson one has pretty much been admitted by the referee that they made a mistake.
“The one on Harry Wilson we disagree on a little bit. He thinks there’s enough contact there to give a penalty. I think it’s really soft.
“So you could argue two of them could go against us, but for all four of them to go against us is a tough one for the lads, the supporters and myself to take because we’ve been here a lot of times this season.
“It’s tough because we didn’t deserve that.”
