It'd always nice to give others a great day out. Plymouth were given a great memory Everton have had a great old send off to the wood pile. Arsenal will have a great memory lifting the league. Generous to a fault clearly.
Jones took one for the team. He’s a scouser and was standing up for the few thousands reds in the stadium.
So slot has a 2 match touchline ban official reason for red card was offensive, insulting or abusive language
Pickford drops oliver in it. Oliver says that he was playing to 97.5mins. He was on 94mins plus 50 seconds when the clash of heads occurred That means he thought we somehow wasted nearly 3 minutes of 4 mins of extra time.
Yes. Others are now reporting it as abusive language. It's very clear from the footage nothing was said prior to the hand heading for the pocket.
I'm leaving out all the obvious comments because the points I would have made immediately after the game have already been covered. So I will just state the positives, we scored two wonderful goals, advanced our league lead and no new injuries.
Really it's how you look at it. The point thst secured the title or the two that costs the title i guess.
It's about just dusting ourselves off and getting on with it now. 3 points vs Wolves on Sunday please. Would want Slot to say as much too, don't get drawn in to slagging the officials off etc. and dragging this out for days of headlines. Just say emotions were high blah blah blah, we're concentrating on the next game as always.
Yeah make a joke about fist bumps only from now on or whatever, but important not to sensationalise this any further.
No, I've clearly stated that we were lucky to go ahead, and we could easily have lost that game. Oliver was shambolic though (again). But I can hold my head up and honestly say I've always seen through his overblown, over-hyped reputation, He's the Emporer's New Clothes of refereeing. I said this as well when he ended Ten Haag's career at Man U with that abysmal penalty decision at West Ham, and his piss-poor sending-off of Lewis Skelly at Wolves (though I did laugh on both occasions). And this is not just since when he 'forgot' the rules of Serious Foul Play over the Prickford/Virgil kung fu episode. I well remember him officiating a game at Anfield when he gave a pen to West Brom that was two yards outside the box, even overruling his better-placed linesman to insist upon giving it. And that final point is key - even in the days of VAR nobody is brave enough to overrule his subjective decisions: there is a God-like reputation about him that is utterly undeserved, and never challenged by his colleagues nor the compliant media.
