Problem is we are dammed if we do and dammed if we don’t.
Our boys give out even half of what they receive, they get booked.
The manager points out that exact same incidents seem to get called differently for us, the Manc and London biased media is all over it, ex refs are all over him, and refs are even more emboldened, and make even more decisions against us.
Imagine if half a dozen PL refs were from Merseyside, and were refereeing matches of Manchester clubs. Image the hysteria at every decision.
There is definitely regional prejudice at play. Given that Manchester as a city despises Liverpool and resents any economic progress the city makes, something that stems back to when Liverpool was the jewel of the empire and Manchester built the ship canal to try and steal Liverpool’s cargo business, Manchester refs are probably quite happy to cost LFC a CL place to cause job losses in the city’s tourism industry and damage the city economy.