Oliver Holt was one of the only ones I’ve seen actually seeing it for what it is. Got a lot of time for Gary Lineker in general but he really couldn’t see the wood for the trees when the difference was pointed out to him.
This is a spot on take and although VAR has levelled the playing field a little it’s still ridiculously obvious if you choose to see it;
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I don’t IMO he is not a big fan of ours. To me his love for Leicester and Spurs is obvious. Always have the feeling even when he said something positive about us there is a hidden agenda. Can’t put my finger on it, I just don’t like him one bit.
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Leicester, Everton and Spurs love and dislike for Liverpool yes. Was meaning more about none football, humanitarian and political point of view and even then not fully agreed on everything with him.
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Oke, clear, thanks for elaborating. 
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This is the match of the day clip that they are advertising. You’d swear based purely on this clip that it was a blatant dive or dangerous play or something. Just on what they are actually using to advertise and as a soundbite there is no actual acknowledgement of Salah being fouled and a penalty being the right decision. They could be talking about a blatant dive with zero contact that didn’t get a penalty award.
The best evidence that it was a foul lie in the fact that the bloke who did the kicking did not protest at all. He knew what he did.
BTW, did Mo Salah or Mané ‘get’ any penalties before yesterday? Hardly, so it can not get much worse. I mean they are handing out penalties to United like it is Christmas eve. To us, not so, we have to do it the hard way, we grounding out our wins, it is more gratifying that way.
Nobody likes us, but we don’t care. 
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But this is why we don’t get a fair approach on things.
Yes, but it is what it is, it will not change.
Danny Murphy, Ian Wright and Gary Lineker:
On Kane, December 2019
DM, “I don’t think that’s cheating…”
Ian Wright, “everyone goes down for that sort of contact nowadays”
DM, “yeah…much ado about nothing”
Lineker, “exactly”
On Salah, October 2020,
DM, “I think the problem we’ve got, which we’ve always had, is that players don’t get penalties if they don’t go down…and we’re seeing too often players doing what Salah did there, and nobody wants to see it…”
Lineker, “no…I agree”
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Kane: Everyone goes down for that. Much ado about nothing
Salah: NOBODY WANTS TO SEE IT
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Oh my, my. I must say I’m mighty surprised and rather amused that we have attained such a position that taking a swipe at us mean so much to so many.
Journalists!!! How many have written an article about the struggles of the lower league clubs in last few months? How many have written an article about the pervasive racism in football and sports in general? How many have written an article about abuse faced my female athletes?
But they find it more important to debate about a penalty won by one of the greatest talent in contemporary football.
Long will it continue. Because Salah is nowhere near finished yet.
I wanted to post something meaningful as a response to this but words fail me. There isn’t anything that could adequately convey how loathsome and reprehensible this article is.
I can’t begin to imagine what he would have come up if he wasn’t calling himself a Liverpool fan.
Let’s be honest there are two issues;
1 There are people who secretly or not so secretly detest us. Decades of smear campaigns aimed at the city, the personality of Scousers, LFC fans in particular has created a toxic attitude towards us bubbling under the surface. Anyone who understands rudimentary unconscious bias should be able to see why this can add a negative slant to how we are treated in the media and by officials.
2 There is a xenophobic shadow cast on this even by those not considering themselves racist and sometimes it’s flat out racism too. The likes of Sterling are not treated on an even playing field as the likes of Kane and foreigners are even worse treated. Bruno Fernandez is the worst diver I’ve seen for years yet doesn’t get half the attention for dives that Salah does for embellishments.
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I wonder how the Stiles family feel about him being name checked in this blatantly racist piece.
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I’d like to see the presser and find out exactly who framed such a question towards Klopp in a way to suggest that Salah dived.
Apart from the Echo thinking it was against Sheffield United 
This is a stunningly bad take by Ian Doyle, “But they were both doing exactly the same thing - attempting to bend the laws, and the application of them, in favour of their team in the hope of being awarded a penalty.”
Salah wasn’t attempting to bend any laws. He was attempting to ensure that they were enforced, ffs.
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Awful awful read on it. Salah was ensuring the officials had to look at the incident and give the correct decision. Kane manipulated the situation to make it seem like he was the one being fouled instead of doing the fouling (there’s video evidence of him doing this multiple times and it’s actually extremely dangerous intentional play that could cause an opponent to become paralysed one day). The responses have been completely night and day as well. Without viewing the incidents you’d think Kane had been taken out but been a bit theatrical whilst Salah was out and out cheating. I’m proper disgusted.
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Not sure how Murphy can critique anything Mo Salah does… As anyone whoever saw Murphy play would testify, the guys feet seemed to be made of lead and they have never in their eternity moved at the speed of Mo’s in either a straight race or quick swerve/dribble…!
So the ‘blur’ of Mo’s feet movement is surely a case of now you see them, now you don’t…
Any kind of tackle on him in the box will always run the risk of being mis-timed…
Murphy was a plodder, yet he criticises a guy that has bamboozled some of the best defenders in the world, whose intended tackles never found the mark because Mo had left them kicking air… !
Sky, BT Sport and the BBC need to have a purge and cull the dinosaur mentality of the pundits.
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Salah also has 7 goals in 7 games and is right up there in the scoring charts being off top scorer by one goal. Of course, all the plaudits are going to Calvert-Lewin who is, as we all know by now, the greatest striker in the league.
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