I retract my comment, need to see it again but it appears he might have got the ball first.
My first instinct before the replay was that he poked it away. But the ref was at the wrong angle tbf.
He wasn't a bad ref really. Tried to keep the game going.
His worst decision was letting that hauling down of flams go. If they'd scored there, i would have shot the cunt myself.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.