Post match: Arsenal v Liverpool (EPL 9/10/22 4.30pm)

Richard Keays …sports reporter on the day…

Root cause of poor officiating, egotistical little pricks…

Any decision now…I would make him walk to the monitor everytime now…time wasting…who cares nowadays add it to the 90 mins…who does think he is…

FA employing a lip reader to check the confrontation between Hendo and Gabriel…does u f****ing duck egg count as a racial statement.?

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I’ve seen a few articles on the penalty now. Most simply concluding that because there was contact and Thiago didn’t get the ball it’s a penalty.

Response is to start diving at the slightest touch I’m afraid.

Makes me sick to suggest a thing but if that’s what the rules say, so be it.

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We were true and totally fucked by the match officials.

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Do you think we’d have got the penalty Mitrovic got at Fulham? Or been given Rashford’s off-side goal at OT? Or got the penalty Arsenal were gifted? Do you think VAR would have waved away our penalty claim had it been down the other end?
I actually think it’s a fair shout to say that’s exactly why we’re on 10 points.
These decisions are costing us points and titles on a regular basis now to the extent it’s become the norm. But let’s just say nowt eh?

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What people fail to understand is that you are are allowed to play shit and win football matches. You’re more likely to win when you play well, but it’s not guaranteed.

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There’s a chance he may mention bias, but likely not corruption. I think such thoughts are confined to the fans only.

Fans see what they want to see. Keita’s high raking kick? The Lukaku in-line offside? Those are just two off the top of my head but we are super quick to forget when we get a few, and its often followed by “yeah its about time we got some decisions going our way!” or something similar.

Balanced out? Absolutely not. We get far more games where we are shafted than where we get the decisions our way. But I’ll continue to fight this narrative that everything goes against us in every game, or the suggestion that money is changing hands or that the FA/PL is working with the referees to ensure we lose. BS.

Just to be clear I’ve never claimed ALL referees are biased or corrupt against us and I don’t think anyone else has either.
But there is enough out there involving certain referees for it to be a major, major concern.

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It’s weird how this only ever gets applied to those who see bias/bad officiating, and never the other way around…

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There was a game last season where we were winning easily and were given a completely baffling decision in our favour. Also, We had a penalty last year that looked a bit soft. My usual reaction is that we never seem to get these kind of decisions when it actually bloody matters.

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Saka went down like he was in excruciating pain holding his eye.

The replay showed that Tsimi made contact with Saka’s…well, mostly his shoulder. Filed under attempting a Rivaldo.

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Can’t remember we got one of those since Klopp is here but I’m getting older :sunglasses: so I could be wrong.

Can anybody say that howler from the ref gave u a win against …?

Exactly.

The old canard of not being allowed to discuss shit refereeing as we were shit is a fallacy. We can be in a situation of both needing to play better and being hard done by in the officiating.

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The one I’m thinking of was against Palace last season. I think it was one of those where literally no-one had appealed for anything. Klopp didn’t have a clue what VAR were messing at and then we got a penalty from nowhere to make it 1-3 rather than 1-2.

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It’s for “balance”.

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Konate pushing the Wolves player in the back when through on goal in May when the scores were 1-1? Alisson tripping the Notts Forest player on the 85th minute in the FA Cup quarter final in March? Lukaku’s offside in the EFL final?

It isn’t the rule.

I also think the shitness of our performance is massively over blown. We look vulnerable, and Arsenal exploited that on 3 occasions to score goals (albeit twice with the aid of the officials). That sort of vulnerability makes it very difficult to win matches regularly, but it also isnt reflective of the game. Overall it was a game with very little in it with both teams doing a lot to trouble the other.

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