That’s asking for professionalism, and we can’t have that.
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Harrington was an amateur playing a professional game yesterday.
More accomplished cheats can make their efforts look like incompetence. They do it with an air of confidence.
Kavanagh would have stood toe to toe with Virgil and spouted shite yesterday. Harrington, supposedly in charge of the match couldn’t communicate.
Two Fulham players potential red cards.
Two Fulham players potential second yellows.
Joe Gomez brought down in the box and no penalty.
Robbo probably deserved red, would expect that. I didn’t expect equity and we didn’t get it.
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To tackle incompetence (anyone see what phrase I used there), you have to commence dealing with those at the top - Howie.
The pool of referees is far toooooo small for retrospective action to be taken against a referee who has a crap performance - You can’t suspend 2/3 or 4 referees at any one one time, because there are NO suitable replacements at the ready to stand-in.
Thicko Howie might feel he runs his ship with an iron-fist, and to a point of micro-managing, he does… but he and PGMOL are failing on basic, common sense policy, that any well run company would already have in place… Unless the pool of referee numbers is greatly increased, it will always remain a scenario of the tail wagging the dog.!
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Im still not clear about Robbo’s red, and the same issue was picked up by Lineker on MOTD.
When Robbo brought Harry Wilson down, it was after Wilson made a heavy touch that he was never going to get to. The ball ran to his team mate, giving him a clear goal scoring opportunity, that he failed to score. So did Robbo actually deny a clear goal scoring opportunity?? Had Fulham scored from the (clear) chance Robbo wouldnt have been sent off i assume?
The ref only blew his whilstle after Alisson collected the ball…so the ref played advantage? The striker fluffed the shot, so he pulled it back? Im not clear if this whole situation was technically reffed correctly therefore.
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Thats my take off all the major decisions in the game none went in our favour. The Gomez non penalty Warnock said the VAR had it simply down as a coming together which is nonsense.
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Warnock is a fucking prick. He shafts us every opportunity he gets. I haven’t seen a single incident where he’s said something in our favour. Still salty about Rafa dropping him.
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Virgil van Dijk:
“I had conversations with the Fulham players and we felt like the referee was nervous. He couldn’t properly communicate with Robertson. We can’t put the blame on the referee. We all speak about protecting the referee but I couldn’t speak to him.”
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Kenny tried to bring him back in 2011 and he had wanted to return so I don’t think he has any bad feelings towards the club.
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The rule is that if they receive treatment they are supposed to go off before the game can restart. This is a 30 year old rule that was introduced to try to minimize stoppages. The idea was
to force players to leave the pitch to get seen to so the game can restart quickly. It very quickly devolved into a situation where the game stops while the player receives treatment on the pitch. He then is forced to walk off before the game restarts only to then be waved on the second the ref blows the whistle. It has turned into a weird little ritual people do without understanding why as it achieves nothing when it isnt coupled with strict enforcement of requiring players to leave the pitch to get seen to.
The shouts for Gomez to get a penalty are mind blowing to me. He sprinted 40 yards just to smash a defender. He looked like a special teams player in the NFL playing defense on a kick return.
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Whatever. Every opportunity he takes a position against the club so I’ll believe his actions. Must be a closet blue
The defender is stretching to block the shot and gets wiped out by Gomez…pretty sure if the shot had gone in, it would have been disallowed.
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@Rambler
Pretty sure?
Really?
At any stage will you stop looking for reasons to deny the obvious?
You weigh in with Limie here because to you there is never a poor decision that effects Liverpool.
Yesterday, Robbo most likely deserved red.
Did any Fulham player deserve red? Be honest here
@Limiescouse
He ran 40 yards into the box with the intention of getting on the ball.
The defender impedes that run, hence a foul. Hence a penalty.
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@Rambler
Despite your hilarity you haven’t answered my question.
Did any player from Fulham deserve a red card yesterday?
Maybe you think they did, but answering would compromise your belief in fairness.
Bit like unicorns.
Doesn’t exist.
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@Rambler
Don’t bother answering.
It will be something from a Fulham fan forum anyway.
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Let me ask you this. Between the two of them, who initiated the contact?
You won’t get an answer.
He stretched to block a shot gets no where near and wipes Gomez out.
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Gomez has a really wide range of options for where he can go with his off the ball run. The defender’s path is entirely explained by doing what he needed to do to defend. That path, in a way that impedes the defender’s ability to defend, is the one place Gomez cannot go. And that is precisely what he did.
It is a textbook example of deciding what is and is not a foul by whatever rationale is beneficial to us to argue that Gomez was denied anything for that.
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He didn’t impede the defender though. His attempt to block the shot resulted in him flattening Gomez. Gomez didn’t have to vanish out the way.
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You people are fucking nuts.
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You people?
Who’s that then?
Anyone with the temerity to argue with you?
So, you do your explanation of Gomez run into the box, your incorrect explanation and when people disagree you spit your dummy.
You have an opinion, thats it. Like all of us, and at times you are wrong. Most people understand and accept that.
But not you.
Disagree with you and its “you people are fucking nuts”…
Give your head a shake, @RER is correct .
You are wrong.
Get over it.
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