As long as both of Fab and Hendo aren’t wasted in defence , then we have a chance here. Fab and Ozan for me and a midfield of Hendo , Thiago and Gini. Anything other than a win does us no good , so oddly enough the pressure is off in a way. Let’s just put in a performance to make us forget the horrors of our last outing.
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Oliver is the best referee in the PL it does not get better
Its really shit then.
His fuckology in the derby cost us dearly.
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Not to absolve Oliver of all responsibility but you can blame David Coote, who was on VAR duties that day, at least as much as the referee himself for that debacle.
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Oliver has been the best in my eye but he’s also been pretty awful in his decision making at certain games this season. Coote really fucked up but Oliver surely didn’t need a second opinion on a knee high flying scythe of a challenge. How on earth he himself at the time deemed that irrelevant beggars belief.
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It’s my birthday today so I am hoping for some sort of present from this, possibly forlornly, it remains to be seen. I won’t be going out as we are completely snowed in at the moment.
I’d make a guess at the team but it depends on who’s fit. At the moment we seem be putting out Eric Morecambe sides: all the right players but not necessarily in the right positions.
Realistically, I think we need to be looking at a top 4 finish and breaking in the new players. To that end I would like to see one of the new centre backs playing, probably in place of Phillips so they can pair up with a more experienced player.
Other than that let’s wind up Pep. It’s funny.
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Happy birthday. 
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Happy birthday. 
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Happy Birthday…let’s hope it a gudden.
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Come on Reds, lets make @RedWhippet birthday special.
Many many happy returns of the day dear !!
Wish you good health and happiness.
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These shit houses are going to benefit big time from an empty Anfield. Shithouses.
The boys will need to deliver and make up for the fans.
3-1 to the reds.
Fuck off pep ya manky twat
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I want to know if Pep can count to 3, get going Redmen (and Oliver).
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This is the most important game of the season, well at least it will be until the next one. It’s an absolutely must win game.
With michael “you don’t ask, you don’t get” oliver as referee, and paul “manurite pie eater” tierney on VAR, you should expect nothing from the ref or VAR, and you won’t be disappointed.
Following the debacle that was our match against the legless martlets (brighton & hove albion to any non vexillologists out there), Boudica and her ladies of the Lowton and District Townswomen’s Guild have revised their rituals.
At the Mem’s behest they have adopted a more humane, some might even venture to say vegetarian, approach to their pig sticking by attaching the epidermis of the berry of the fruit of the genus musa over the business end of their bhaale. Their new motto “ubi sol non lucet inhaero”.
I fancy any vetenary proctologists should do a roaring trade.
Anyway, the good ladies have mustered the drivers & hounds, mounted up and ridden out in search of fresh prey. Latest intelligence from the front indicates that a certain @SBYM is quite high on the Mem’s list of preferred targets.
In deference to @Klopptimist I suggested that they should direct their marauding in a Westerly direction, a compass bearing diametrically opposed to that of the bypass, so all should have been well on his sortie to the shops.
Whilst they are away, or at least for the duration of the match, I thought I might adopt one of the foibles of my (late) Great Aunt Mabel and read from the book of Job whilst lying naked in a bed of nettles. I suspect that it may prove to be much less painful than actually watching the game whilst having the added advantage that it is so nice when you stop.
Meanwhile Lawro, no doubt gloating at the prospect of our third home defeat in succession has predicted a one all draw.
Hopefully his attempted kiss of death won’t throw a spanner in the works and upset the apple-cart. 
I’ll take a scrappy 1-0 win to us. 
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Oliver is a very good referee. One mistake in the derby (that VAR should have fixed) and now he’s shite apparently.
This place is becoming tiresome with the obsession with every referee and every decision, which is unnecessary because there’s been plenty of poor decisions to discuss. Fabinho’s foul on Cavani somehow caused outrage despite it being an obvious foul. West Ham player should have been sent off for trying an overhead kick. Blah blah blah. Boring.
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I always think that if you blame the ref after the game, you weren’t paying attention. You can be robbed blind yes and a last minute dodgy penalty will always irk but mostly, you lost because you were the worse team. It’s the conspiracy theorists that get me, there’s an obvious plan by the refs to rule against us etc. No fans ever like the ref.
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His mistake in the Derby wasn’t singular. He made a number of errors, including the disallowed goal at the end. Pickford red card was really obvious, with or without VAR.
As for Fabinhos “foul” on Cavani.
It was never a foul.
Hope Oliver has learnt from his mistakes.
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The disallowed goal at the end wasn’t his mistake.
As in, he literally didn’t make that decision.
But okay, carry on.
Now we’re in the realm of criticising the match referees for offside decisions made by VAR. Credible complaints for sure.
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Happy Birthday
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Good good.
Sacrificing the odd Australian for the cause may rouse the spirit of Johnston in us, and allow us to unleash the power of the mighty perm and vanquish those with no morals back to the black hole they call home.
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