Post match: Liverpool v Everton (EPL 21/10/23 12.30pm)

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It is stated in ‘Peter Reid’s Guide to Refereeing’, the bible for all young PL officials -

The Yellow Card - this was designed for giving against a team who are far superior to their opponents, especially if those opponents have a violent thug who has been sent off for assault.*
In such cases, the yellow card should be used to ‘even things up’. For example, if there is a fifty fifty challenge, referees should not hesitate to use the card generously in order to help the violent underdog.

*This is most useful for matches in the Merseyside area involving teams playing in red and blue.

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Garth Crooks is a blithering idiot.

Young deserved three yellows. The warning for kicking the ball away went unheeded, and he rightly got a second yellow after that. He couldn’t deal with Diaz all game long. Our man was too fast, too skillful, too tricky, and he hacked him down.

Diaz should have had a penalty for the Tarkowski challenge too. It was much more of a foul than Konate on Beto.

So Konate’s challenge on Beto? Seen them given, but it would have been harsh. Barely touched him. Beto engineered the contact. He should be embarrassed at going over for that. He wouldn’t have got away from Konate due to the pace of our man. Even if he might have, Van Dijk had it well covered.

It’s faux outrage, designed to portray Liverpool as now being square with the house. We were hard done by against Spurs. And now we got away with one against Everton. See, things even themselves out! That’s the narrative that is forming.

And it is bollocks!

As it happens, since the Spurs game, we have been refereed quite fairly. I would take that sort of refereeing for the duration of the rest of the season. People may disagree with that statement, but my take is that the refereeing has been so uneven against us, that anything approaching equitable treatment is being grabbed by both hands by me.

Anyway. Everton, nil points. Bitter, the lot of them, from fans to manager. Lots of problems at the whole club. And Saudi might take Calvert Lewin, lol. To be fair to him, he won a few headers and showed a little something for them.

But let’s end it where we started. Garth Crooks. Showed some faux solidarity with LFC after his Spurs side were allowed to rob us blind. But his true colours are now showing, and he is setting a narrative against Liverpool, as if to say it’s now all square.

Bugger off with that, Crooks! It’s not all square and these things most definitely do not even themselves out over the season.

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Quoted for truth.

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Nail. Head.

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Well yes as the ref gave a yellow! :rofl:

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I’m fed up of the excuse of “he made an attempt for the ball”

It does not matter

That is a penalty all day long.

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This numb nuts has a prominent “column” on the BBC Sport site which is widely consumed and does help set the narrative. So, while might ignore it, it does have a material adverse effect on us.

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And now, because if this false narrative being pushed on major media outlets (BBC, TNT Sports, Sky Sports) we will now be back to square one, which is biased refereeing.

Akanji got a second yellow and the narrative was “he hardly touched him, quite unfair”…almost the same challenge as Konate. But it’s City so it’s ok, yeah?

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What else can we expect :grimacing:

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The perverse thing is that had the referees simply done their job against Spurs, a draw would have been a very likely result. Take 2 points away from Spurs and put 1 into the LFC column, and I think the PL has a 4-way tie for 1st place (with almost no goal differential) heading into the last weekend of October. It has been years since a season has had a credible four team race.

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The Everton malaise infects any player who joins them or steps up from their youth ranks. Brathwaite looked a decent prospect and a fair competitor. But now he is resorting to diving when he loses the ball and trying to steal a full 20 yards on a throw-in

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I still think he is a good player, it’s Dyche tactics isn’t it. I think he will be snapped up sooner rather than later by someone further up.

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They don’t appear to have been trained out of Anthony Gordon since he left. You can take the boy out of Everton…

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You can take the boy out of Everton but he’s straight into Sandcastle. They kick and dive and waste time with impunity

Plus have you seen his face? Everything about him screams “GIANT PRICK!”

(Side story: I actually had a professor at uni named Dr. Jayanth Parekh…but he was a decent bloke)

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More’s the pity though especially as Gordon was on the books of Liverpool for a time.

Guess anything classy about him got stamped out when he joined Everton.

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