 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the Everton News Daily. Everton have received an apology from the PGMOL chief Mike Riley following the awful decision in Saturday's 1-0 defeat against Manchester City. Rodri's, blatant handball, which was seen by everybody, it shouldn't have needed VAR, but Chris Havannet on VAR decided not to give the penalty. The Premier League had told Everton before the game had finished, it was a mistake. It's now come out, Mike Riley's ended up having to apologise to Bill Kenwright, the story says, Denise Barabax and the Hell of Frank Lampard. It doesn't really mean anything, does it? The fact we all know it was the wrong decision, we all know it was a pathetic decision, the whole world knows it. It doesn't change a thing, it doesn't mean everything can get a point. It doesn't mean, you know, they'll start favouring us because, quite frankly, we had a decision that was probably worse than this the week before against Southampton and no one said a word. Rymauu's handball at 0-0 in that Southampton game in the first five minutes was clearer than the Rodri one and no one said a word because it was Southampton if you ever knew case. But this was obviously a big gain because it affects Liverpool at the top. People have made the fuss over it. But it's nonsense, it's the kind of awful, awful decisions we see as Evertonians. We see a lot of weeks, to be honest with you. They can name a handful of them already, just off the top of my head this season. The LaRice penalty that we got at Goddison, it was overturned. And when it was a penalty and the Shelby challenge from behind, which was there being a red card and, you know, we had Rymauu last week, we've got it. There's just loads of them. But what can you do? We've always, everything can do is continue to highlight it and not shy away from it. And I think a lot of people, even not Evertonians and supporters of other clubs other than the ones that are favoured in the Premier League are getting a little bit fed up with it now, is that it's almost cheating and blatant site, really. And I've seen the word corruption mentioned many times. Whatever it is, it's ruining the game and it needs to be sorted out. VaR isn't the problem, the people using it are the problem. And there's got to be reasons. If you look at that as a referee and you can't see that to penalty within three seconds, then something else is going on. So it needs to be got to the bottom of quite frankly, but Everton have had the apology, doesn't make me feel any better. I'm sure it won't make you feel any better if you're never tone in. What can we do? We've got to get on with it. Labour MP Chris Bryant has recommended that Everton should cut their ties with Alasher Uzmanov. Obviously Uzmanov is part owner of USM, who are heavily sponsors of Everton. He's had a lot of his assets frozen by the EU and the UK are expected to follow suit and freeze his assets there. And Labour MP Chris Bryant saying Everton need to get ahead of it, cut the ties with them now and step away from the situation. It'll be interesting to see what Everton do, obviously, over the course of the next few days. With the tension, obviously the war ongoing with Russia invading the Ukraine. So we need something needs to be done. Vitaly Michalenko has actually spoken out on the war via the social media posts today. He said that the truth will defeat propaganda. On February 24th, the Russian Federation attacked the territory of the Ukraine, a sovereign European state. They did it treacherously while everyone was sleeping. The aggressor has launched a powerful and false propaganda that we must fight by telling the truth to the whole world. Today is the sixth day of the war. Civil people are dying, houses and squares are disappearing, but our faith in victory is not. We are Ukrainians. We are one defending our land. We ask for your support, obviously. Remain to be seen whether Michalenko was available for selection for Everton and Borymwood on Thursday. Obviously, events taking place in his own country are weighing heavily on his mind, as you would expect. So, you know, we hope that this war comes to a swift end because there's no there shouldn't be any place in this world for war in 2020, quite frankly. Hamas Rodriguez, as again, said he is open to returning to Everton again via this Twitch stream. I was asked about it and said, why not? I have no problem with anyone there. I really enjoyed it. The fans are great and I'd be open to go back. I didn't want to leave, kind of thing. I can't see anything in this. This is just him answering questions and he might be answering them perfectly, honestly, by saying, yeah, I wouldn't mind going back, but this isn't something that's going to happen. That's for sure. And finally, Everton have been linked with a move for Montreal Impact midfielder, Jordi Michalovic. The 23-year-old USA International has got six international caps, scored four goals and had 14 assists for Montreal Impact last season. MLS season starts again later this month. A lot of clubs monitor them, but reports today saying that Everton's relationship, sorry, Kevin Thelwell relationship with MLS and understanding that is Everton's new director of football is interested in this player and knows how good he is. And a favour and 8 million euros has been mentioned, like I say, he's been capped six times by the United States. So already the MLS links are beginning. Kevin Thelwell, who officially started Everton today, but rarely starts tomorrow, he gets his DOF job on the way and hopefully he can start putting in the structures, get a recruitment team in place and we can move towards the recruitment for the summer while staying up. Obviously that's the first priority. 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