In Liverpool's win over Nottingham Forest at the weekend referee Paul Tierney gave the ball to Liverpool after play had been halted for Ibrahima Konate to receive treatment for his head injury.
When the play stopped, it was Forest that were in possession so it should have been returned to them from an uncontested drop-ball after Konate had received treatment.
Liverpool went on to score almost two minutes after this incident, which former referee Mike Dean called a 'monumental error', in an interview after the game.
"I saw Mike Dean's interview earlier today, where he described it as a 'monumental error’," Gary Neville said after the game.
"There is no doubt the Nottingham Forest player is in possession but the goal came a minute and 50 [seconds] after that. Two minutes in football is an absolute age.
"The idea that it was a 'monumental error'... I get the fact it was a mistake, a frustration, but I get the feeling now that we're making too much out of what I feel is a run-of-the-mill error. You see them quite regularly in a season."
"The owner on the pitch and the Mark Clattenburg nonsense, I can't buy into," Neville added. "I feel we are pushing the boundaries, and inciting anger and hate towards referees [with] some of the action clubs are taking.
"To me, it's an error. It's just a mistake. We don't know Liverpool wouldn't have scored anyway. At the moment, we need to show a bit of restraint. I don't feel it's as bad as we're making out."
"Clattenburg is all over the radio - what do they want? A replay of the match? Clubs don't seem to accept there are times where you get a bad decision against you.
"The angle this season is that there almost needs to be retribution or revenge, greater action, rather than just thinking 'you're going to get a shocker against you at some point'. That's football.
"I didn't even think that decision was a shocker. It was bad, not a shocker."
