I've read the thread Tobes and you slate the physio and then do exactly what he did. You chirped on about the non Gerrard incident. What would you be saying if it was the Everton physio being prevented from getting to one of your players? You'd be having an angina by now...
...Turn it in Tobes, you're wrong and you know it mate!
Prevented? He wasn't 'prevented' from doing anything.
To the rest of you blinkered kopites who seemingly want to believe anything other than the actual reality given some of the tripe posted yesterday.
I sat & closely watched the incident again last night & before arguing with me on this one, try actually doing the same yourselves.....
Suarez is down, a crowd of players surround the referee, Dowd is talking to face to face with Barry with Jagielka & McCarthy stood behind him. The Everton players are obviously fearful that he's going to (rightly) show Mirallas a red.
The Physio appears & comes up behind Dowd, leans towards him & you can clearly see him saying "it's a red" twice into his ear. McCarthy, Jagielka & Barry ALL hear him & go ape. Barry grabs his jacket & Dowd looks round bemused.
Whether this had any relevance to Dowd's decision only he knows, but my suggestion that the physio could have inadvertently spared Mirallas, due to Dowd not wanting to be seen to be influenced by a comment from Liverpools bench was totally valid.
The facts are simple, the physio clearly says "it's a red", there was no 'mishearing' of what he said, there was no 'preventing' of him doing his job (lol @ that one) & the ultimate result was Mirallas got away with a yellow, IMO (note IMO) I think if Dowd was still in 2 minds at the point the physio spoke to him, then that could have swayed him.
Given the previous in this fixture i.e. Gerrard telling 'our Mark' to send off Hibbert when he was going for a yellow card & the uproar that followed it. Then it'd hardly be a surprise if Dowd didn't fancy a potential repeat.
Remember - watch it before coming back with yet more tripe please.