the guy giving the finger sorta looks like shearer.
Surprised Nunez wasnt red carded for inciting crowd trouble!
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I loved that after he scored the winner he winks and blows a little kiss to those Newcastle fans berating him.
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Discount Chris OāDowd to me. Sorry Chris
Quelle surprise.
Iāve never seen players from other clubs swearing at the ref. Ever.
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Meh. He earned it.
Its their start of season directive. Give it six weeks (or whenever Man City do it, whatever comes first) and players will be surrounding the referee and swearing all they want again.
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They have tried to fuck us on the pitch with their silly red cards and did not succeed, now they will do it from the FA boardroom and they still will not succeed.
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It was a questionable red, but Virgil didnāt cover himself in glory on the way out. Gave the ref a real earful and was clearly cussing him out. Not terribly surprised, and I expect Klopp will come out and say need and expect better behavior even when you disagree, refs are due a modicum of respect.
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Yeah, he compounded a poor defensive play with talking himself into a seat upgrade. As @Sweeting says, by November it will be ignored most of the time.
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He had it coming. Acted out and there it is. Of course, the FA will carry through when itās Liverpool player but thatās besides the point.
Van Dijk needs to get his head out of his ass, heās been getting off scott free for some seriously stupid mistakes for a while now.
Go big and go homeā¦?
In hindsight the decision to come across and try to make an interception before Isak turned (which is what I think he was doing rather than ātacklingā Isak) was a poor one. However, heās about 2 inches away from making a really good tackle.
Itās in a particularly weird gray area because itās probably a foul, just, but had the referee not even given a foul I donāt think it ever gets mentioned again. It wasnāt a hard tackle, he mostly gets the ball - itās very, very close to being an excellent challenge. However, once the referee deems it a foul (a fair reading I think but could have gone eitherway) then its a red card automatically.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Players, refs, managers, theyāre all human and they canāt be expected to be perfect.
Of course if youāre a ref your employer can just issue an apology afterwards and weāre all supposed to accept that mistakes can happen and their job is tough. If youāre a player or a manager though youāre expected to be perfect and shown no fallibility or emotion.
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Thereās a large area to operate between walking off calmly and telling the ref to do one while screaming obscenities in his face.
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I also suspect it will be viewed as a refusal to leave as much as his language. There was a point where the ref very clearly snapped and suddenly, for a second time, demanded he leave the pitch, and even then he was slow to leave.
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Always felt we shouldāve appealed thisā¦
There also appears to be a large area to operate within how the laws are being applied.
Canāt question that though or the jumped up little traffic wardens will go crying to their governing body.
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