So now their team bus has been damaged… another cry for sympathy because you lost…so your fans didn’t deface and damage the concourse at Anfield, and various other areas…but they fail to mention that…
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Once in 20 seasons and 3 times in the last 80 odd years
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His constant fellating of the sportwashing is incredibly disgusting.
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Any news on the Jota injury?
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Have to admit I watch a lot less of Sky, BT Sport and BBC pre and post match stuff since the revamp of pundits to “tick boxes”
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Just had a full on 2 hour long debate (still ongoing tbf) with some nit on twitter who is some spokesperson for ref support and all this garbage.
I’m not 1 for condoning abuse but man I’d love to slap some sense into this guy.
Referee’s whether amateur/pro or whatever level they’re governed to, they really do live in a different world of their own.
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How’re you and the family, good I hope?
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Not sure how it ruined the spectacle, the game carried on with even more intensity after the incident.
There were 2 fouls in the build up to the goal and it came directly from City being awarded a goal kick when we should have had a corner. All VAR did was rule out an unjust goal.
What Barney means is it ruined the game for him, because he wanted City to win, because it certainly didn’t ruin the rest of the football match as a ‘spectacle’. Absolute dirge.
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Perfectly legit challange - he got the ball
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That more or less was the point of the super league idea.
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Proper FFP was.mentioned sure but cheaty were originally included as a PL ‘member’.
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I would be really interested to hear an argument from a senior ref on why they think Taylor performed well. That sort of insight is sorely missing from the discourse, but this wasnt that. This was simply rallying around a mate and telling people who arent in their group that their opinions arent important or relevant to them. The biggest tell…calling him fucking “Tayls”.
EDIT: edited to add that any review of the refereeing performance that somehow does not mentioned the Silva Salah incident is again proof of a not good faith argument. It is not only that it directly resulted in one of the most noteworthy incidents in the game (Klopp’s red), but that ridiculousness of the foul and the clear red card offense from
Silva immediately after, leading to multiple other yellow card offenses from the same player in the aftermath.
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That was an evolution, seen at the time as pragmatic, but when Perez starting talking to clubs in 2018, City was not on the list.
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I don’t think the referee assigners at FIFA are in any rush to increasing English participation in the World Cup. Silva’s tackle on Salah would have drawn a call from any half-decent rugby ref. Heck, it might have been called in the NFL under the horse collar rule.
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Why?
It would have been healthier if you had done it with a bottle.
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The post match debate from so many pundits reinforces for me one of what I think the biggest unhelpful distractions from the pundit class is - the demand for “consistency.” In theory it makes sense. It is infuriating to watch, just a hypothetical pulled out of my backside, a ref acknowledge that targeting a player instead of competing for a header is a foul in the first minute and then forget that for the rest of the game. But invariably what this debate leads to is the absurd demand that different incidents are given the same outcome. That isn’t consistency, it’s idiocy. It is in effect removing a ref from the game.
These are the sort so arguments that people use when they are arguing in bad faith (see a manager after a game), but they are also the arguments people use when they are too dumb to know different. The vast majority of the pundits we get on our tellies are likely a combination of both…too dumb to formulate a worthwhile opinion while also inherently biased against liverpool because of the rivalries they carry with them from their playing days.
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I get a lot of good laughs from it, the amounts of idiots on there replying idiotic things to other idiots. It’s funny, no other place quite like it.
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Another angle that I haven’t seen discussed is that it took a supreme amount of restraint from Mo to not floor that prick Silva after that foul was not given, and after Silva’s reaction. But had Mo retaliated it would have been a straight red. So fouls are essentially being rewarded
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Went to the Guardian to look for that nonsense posted above, but found this article from their only football writer who has a good knowledge and judgement of the game. This is a much more accurate take on events:
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First duty of the referee is keep the players from getting seriously hurt… that means enforcing the rules of the game. If a first tackle takes someone out and they need to go off to hospital nothing the ref can do but send the guy off immediately…
What he can do though during the game is watch for the flash points that occur in the build-up to someone seeing the red mist and act then to diffuse the mood… Snides like Silva are a danger to other players, surely that is not hard to forsee. This letting the game flow argument makes the match more exciting is all well and good if you are some TV producer, but surely the fans in the ground that have paid good money to watch a football match, should be prioritised over viewing figures…!
If we continue down this road, the game could get turned into little more than a travelling circus that you tune into to watch the acts
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