I can’t make up my mind if it’s just anti Liverpool or anti foreign players, but I tend towards subliminal racism. I’m curious what happens when it affects one of our English players. It’s now incredibly annoying and just plain unfair.
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Yep, he constantly makes no attempt to go for the ball but instead backs into the opponent
https://twitter.com/tashaaa2000/status/1323247330863259649
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Lets hope Kane and Pickford have to go for a 50/50 ball one day eh…!
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@AnfieldRdDreamer thankyou for posting/linking the stuff that makes you angry, and you’re justified when put like that. Much better than insinuating that posters on here treat Salah badly, we don’t!
You see a bit of context can change things. I don’t read this shit, I live in a country where Salah’s talent is justly appreciated and commentators and pundits, that I hear, are at least respectuous, usually in awe.
I don’t know what can be done about these twats however the club should definitely look at ‘banning’ certain ‘journalists’ from Anfield, at least refuse to reply to them (shouldn’t be too difficult at the moment with covid restrictions).
The ref might award Bruno Fernandez a penalty… you never know with this league anymore
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Seeing Keith Hackett saying that Salah ‘conned’ VAR and Kevin Friend reminded me of the Oumar Niasse travesty.
Ok, he was playing for the bitters, but Niasse was taken out by Scott Dann for which Everton were, rightly, awarded a penalty.
Niasse was then BANNED because an independent tribunal found he had exaggerated the contact made on him by Dann. This was notwithstanding the fact that the referee was asked to re-watch it and he confirmed to the Tribunal that he felt he made the correct decision…ie, that he was not deceived. Note that the tribunal agreed that there was contact, but because they considered Niasse’s response was exaggerated that it merited a ban. That was an absolute joke, ridiculous decision.
I think in acknowledgement that they got this wrong the FA brought these proceedings only twice (Lanzini in the month after Niasse) but not since. With VAR there should, of course, no longer be any question of the referee being deceived because he’s able to have another look at it.
Salah didn’t “con” anybody. Neither did Niasse. Both players made the officials make a decision - to apply the laws of the game.
What I did find interesting is that there were at least two incidents in the Spurs game yesterday where the VAR had to rule on potential penalties, with Spurs players going down in the box. On both occasion the VAR said it wasn’t a penalty (these were separate to the Kane one). The Spurs players went down without contact both times - why then are they not being booked? Anyone know?
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The media will just say that our poor, honest English boys have started to pick up bad habits from those nasty darkies Salah and Mané.
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EDIT: On second thought, my own commentary is simply a matter of perspective. If those around the game and those that make a living either participating in, or observing, aren’t offended by this then why should I be? And the big wheel keeps on turning. As the old cliche goes, nothing ever changes but the faces and the prices.
ALSO: I am befuddled that Bruno (himself an import) doesn’t get called out more (ever) for his theatrics and diving. He seems to be the one non-English that’s the exception to the rule. His diving is next level. He grabs for body parts that aren’t even made contact with when he goes down.
Sorry not sure what your point is? Klopp quite clearly is offended, a lot of recent focus has been placed on the disproportionate way in which sports “journalism” commentates on white players versus players of colour and foreign vs English.
There is also a club aspect too and United have this aura of almost being untouchable with regards these matters and allegations despite regularly having some of the worst diving culprits of the premier league era.
There is an old way of thinking when it comes to news and reporting in that you don’t report the news you report what there’s a market for. You report what people want to hear about. But the problem with that is there are then people making decisions about what people want to hear about. If those people have prejudices etc then the decisions about what people want to hear about are made with false reasoning. But then what is pushed is what is then in the media. So someone decides that nobody wants to hear about a bombing in an African town but they want to hear about a fire in a European cathedral, that nobody wants to hear about unproven allegations of paedophilia in the aristocracy but want to hear about Megan Markle wearing the wrong type of dress for an event, or that nobody cares about MPs having certain expenses “correctly” met but that everyone needs to know about “benefit cheats” trying to find loopholes. Same with football in Britain “nobody wants to hear of smirches against Spurs and United’s noble athletes and role models especially the English ones” but there’s always a market for “them filthy, dirty, cheating Scouse bastards”!
The problem is it sets the narrative then only follows up with stories that fit the narrative because there’s no appetite for anything else. As decided by the same people who created it in the first place.
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I wasn’t responding to you, I was quoting your post.
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One of our former players, but I’ve no love lost for him. He never misses a chance to talk shite about LFC.
Despite being a former professional, he has zero idea about football. His miserable take on this situation shows at least one thing: his brain must have the size of a peanut.
The most terrible ‘pundit’ I’ve ever witnessed. Even Shearer is better than him (slightly) which says everything.
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Since I follow English football, racism towards foreign players (especially brilliant ones) has always been a constant, as well as a blatant media bias against LFC.
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Decided my posts have been too negative in here so;
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Masuaku kicks Salah on the ankle and as a bonus, kicks him on the shin.
Masuaku does not make any contact with the ball.
The implication, that it is a “soft” penalty, must be that no foul was committed.
But can there be any doubt that Masuaku committed a foul?
Where does the law stipulate that if you don’t kick someone “hard enough”, then it cannot be a foul? Does the player have to be injured for it to be a foul/penalty?
And, if Salah does not go down, is the penalty awarded?
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Very nice assist for the Mane goal,i bet Mane was just glad that Mo actually noticed him.
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This is exactly why the English media defends Kane as “smart” while labeling Mo as a diver. He’s embarrassing the home town star.
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His numbers are just amazing. Most of the stats put out for other players these days usually have the line “Only Salah has more…”
Think he’s also matched our PL record of highest goals in first 8 games of season equalling Torres and Fowler.
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