The keeper will be fine...part of his style is to pat down, or push out, when others might be catching...he's not massive, but his early footwork over the first couple of yards as a shot comes in, is first class. Henderson is a self-inflated confidence balloon. Turner a study in focus and the nine yard stare. Both good keepers, the defence is calm in front of them both. I can't decide which I prefer at this stage...but I'm okay with both. They are both pretty decent. You can do better than both...but Turner is definitely the better price (value).
Generally I think there is a big player bias.. that is, players have reputations and that influences decisions (a renowned diver is more likely to be assumed to have dived etc). Bigger players have bigger reputations and play for bigger clubs. So no matter how fair a ref intends to be.. if they see Joe Worrall (a relative nobody) pulling down Bruno Fernandez (an established top talent) they can’t help but have a bias in favour of the big player.
It’s probably a marginal thing, but top football matches are marginal.
Dick Van Dyke got sent off for a more obvious professional foul than Worrall. He’s as big a name as they come so if anyone is gonna to get the benefit of the doubt it is him… so all fair there, although the media types.. who absolutely do contribute to whatever bias the refs imbibe, have chosen the Liverpool player to focus on.. not the more marginal and, ultimately, more significant, Worrall decision.
So I don’t think refs are corrupt or scared to upset the big boys… but I do think they absorb the world around them and cannot help but be more disposed towards the players they know well than the ones they don’t.