Hendo was targetted by the chavs from the off and the ref let them hack away at him time and again, just as Suarez has been getting that treatment all season. This is what happens when one of the non-clique clubs reaches the top of the league I'm afraid. I did say before the City game that we'd start getting ref'd tougher and so it has proved. It's not right but I'm not surprised and I'm sure the players aren't either.
To an extent Suarez is still suffering from the past couple of years when he "went over too easily" - good to see that he's stopped doing that - refs just need to catch up. Given what I just said, it's no surprise that Webb did not give the penalty at OT - whenever Young or Januzaj go over every ref will be asking is it a dive?
Referees shouldn't be using players reputation when making decisions though. And when someone like Mourinho comes out and says Suarez dived even when he didn't it means all the hard work he's put in over the last year has gone down the drain with one comment from someone that has a big influence in the media.
dont you mean utd and the fa, although same ****ing thing. Mourinho and the one who has his play toy wont be around for long, money runs dry be gone like a ****ing shot, love the club my arse!
The similarity of altitude training for distance runners is what working in Huyton is for coppers. Far more civilised over the border in Dovey though....
I must say that we need to get real as a club. our senior players need to start getting on the cases of refs and just like a team should know that coming to anfield is a hard day refs should know that they cannot take liberties either. when that ref booked suarez for nothing cos he told him he was not being fair previously... well the crowd needed to be 100% louder at him and frankly the senior players like skertl, agger, lucas et al should have been surrounding that ref and making the case well and truely known. they should know how to push it without pushing it ala rooney and giggs... they should rotate the strike as it were and make absolutely sure no ref is taking the easy road with our opponents nor that one is being harsh on us.
A quick read of this thread is interesting. Suarez, based on the little bits I've seen, goes down way, way too easily and whines at the ref far too much. I'd expect that opinion to be the one posted on most boards, not just about Suarez, but about the others of his ilk that are helping kill the game. Most boards are calling out for actions, such as heavy retrospective punishment if a post match video review shows 'simulation' or cheating as it's properly called.
You'll be hard pressed to find any Liverpool fans who don't know Suarez as a diver but he has cleaned up his act this season and I can't recall any dives. He is what he is and we all know his faults which are massively outweighed by his genius imo.
I've been going on about retrospective punishment for diving for a long time but it would have to be 100% clear cut and there simply aren't that many that are that clear. With the number of TV's in grounds providing every angle you could wish for, no contact at all is easy to call. But what about the "there was contact" fouls? They are down to opinion which could create more unrest around inconsistencies. Luis is a diver but he has been much better behaved this season. I think you guys just caught him at a bad time having endured two bad referring performances along with the shocking effort yesterday too
compared to who..... where was the simulation? he got contact and some heavy contact too boot each and every time he went down. he might flo but compared to who? young, mata, hazard, oscar, the litany of players who threw themselves down at the mereest contact as we played both top teams last week? the fact is suarez was the only one in the refs face when his team mates should have been all over the ref to make sure the ref knew where he was. I suggest you post a video of where he "simulated" one single time in our game... just one.. I'll post a video of the hack job your lads did... but thats manly yeah?
Suarez has definitely cleaned his act up, your lot kicked lumps out of him and got away with it. So, kicking lumps out of a player is OK but diving is killing the game, selective causes eh. Lets ignore one really crappy anti skill aspect of the game and focus on a much lesser evil, an evil of which Suarez has kept from for 15 league games while januzaj racks up yellows, Welbeck and Hernandez avoid them repeatedly and Young also collects them. Suarez seems to be the centre of diving debate when Gareth Bale picked up 5 bookings for diving last season. Then there's young who can brashly say basically "I'll do what I like, it's up to the refs to catch me" yet fans and the media use Suarez as an example, not because he dives more than anyone else, he never did and has in fact gone down once without contact for a penalty since coming to the prem, but because he fits the profile British culture understands, the greasy untrustworthy south American. This is the stereotype ever present since the game v Ghana at the WC. Just try deny this, Suarez is the only player to get booed by all opposition supporters every time someone chops him down. He gets booed. Who else has that to deal with? Suarez is by no means the worst offender in the league, I can name 5 worse by far divers off the top of my head. Why didn't all you seamstresses have a ****ing sewing circle meeting about Bale last season? 5 bookings, more than the rest of the league combined possibly yet Suarez is the root of all evil. I tell you, if refs are gonna treat him like they have done in the past 3 games then he might as well ****ing dive because he's been prejudged. players in all positions go down easy in ALL teams, Hull included. Just cos it aint in the peno box that makes it ok yeah? Bollocks. Maureen, not happy with destroying a refs career with false claims already, now intentionally lies to cause grief for a player who everyone and his dog acknowledges btw, is trying to clean up his act and in doing so has become the best player by a margin in the Premier League. So who gives a **** what a load of ****tards on this forum think, the moralistic fakery of these fools makes me laugh, judging the dishonesty of others while watching their team on illegal streams.
Back to referees: "Mark Clattenburg reportedly accused of insulting Southampton's Adam Lallana" Mark Clattenburg is reportedly being investigated by Mike Riley, head of the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd, after Southampton complained about the referee's use of "abusive and insulting" language against their captain Adam Lallana. According to the Daily Mail, Clattenburg is understood to have insulted Lallana after the player complained over his decision not to award Southampton a penalty during their recent 2-1 loss at Everton. The south-coast club, report the Mail, have asked the Premier League not to appoint Clattenburg for any of their matches until PGMOL's investigation has been completed. Speaking after Southampton loss at Goodison Park on 29 December, their manager, Mauricio Pochettino, said: "I don't mean any disrespect against any referees, but anyone watching the game can see there were two clear penalties that weren't given or should have been given. That would have changed the game completely but we weren't given them and, of course, we are angry and upset about this. I am saying that should not be forgotten in the overall analysis of the game and they need to be said. We don't want to be judged by our young, handsome, good-looking players. We just want what's fair." The allegations come a little over a year after Clattenburg, who will take charge of Arsenal's FA Cup tie against Tottenham on Saturday, was cleared by the Football Association of using "inappropriate language" against Chelsea's Mikel John Obi. Part of me thinks why should a ref be punished for giving back a bit what he receives tenfold from 22 players for 90 minutes? The other part of me thinks, it's Clattenburg. Ha!
doesn't matter astro, Suarez is the devil as far as most are concerned(must be our nickname hmmm), doesn't matter what the **** he does that is right, his problem i suspect is he is not ****ing English, otherwise he would be seen as a granny shagging, camera swearing bold pikey and worshipped if he was.
Because their job is to enforce the rules and if they can't be arsed even doing that the least they can is not break them themselves.
Just highlights the ineptitude of the FA that they can be punished for not doing their job properly in once instance, yet face no punishment for failing to do their job properly in other instances.
