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Referee Michael Oliver caused a little controversy in the last ever Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.(Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)

Michael Oliver has been confirmed as one of the two referees from the Premier League that will officiate at the revamped FIFA Club World Cup this summer.

So the bar is higher," chairman of FIFA's referees committee, Pierluigi Collina, said alongside Monday's statement confirming English officials Oliver and Anthony Taylor for the upcoming tournament.

They are two of 117 individuals to be drafted from 41 member nations.

Incidentally, with one or two raised eyebrows from a Liverpool perspective, from the nine matches in which Arne Slot's side have dropped points this season, Oliver has been in charge of three of them.

They were the defeat to Nottingham Forest and draw to Manchester United, both at Anfield, plus the last-gasp away draw to Everton in the last ever Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.

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It was the Reds' showdown with their neighbours that attracted the most controversial attention, because of the officiating on display.

As fans may remember, this was a game-in-hand on Premier League title rivals Arsenal, with the Reds being able to move nine points clear at the time.

In hindsight, it did not have too much of an impact as Liverpool sit 13 points clear; six shy of mathematically being confirmed as Premier League champions.

Still, referee Oliver is yet to be selected by the Professional Game Match Officials Board Limited (PGMOL) for involvement in a Reds' match - in any capacity - since then.

The Northumberland-based 40-year-old has also been in the 'bad books' of the Gunners having sent off defender Myles Lewis-Skelly against Wolves for violent in January.
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