Day 3 of Operation: Save The Scouse and the BBC has dug up Clattenburg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59736316 ****ing ludicrous.
Fuuuuuuuuck sake! Sess has a muscular injury and is out for 10 days according to Jonathan Veal. Had his best game in a Spurs shirt for us and probably would’ve started again tomorrow whilst Reguilon is still likely not 100%.
Wonder if that is a "fatigue" injury induced by not actually having had match training games + competitive matches over the quarantine period.
They'd still be whining about that penalty we got at Anfield when (I think it was) Van Dijk going through the back of Lamela (if they hadn't got a very similar one against us in a later match). But seriously, they went on about that one for a long long time.
Actually do look at that link (I know you won't want to). However the first picture shows Kane clearly going for the ball. It's the second one they keep on showing of course because it looks worse. And my final word on the incident is that it wasn't "special treatment" for Kane (words I just heard on Talkshite again as I was typing this, so they haven't let it go days later), because a Liverpool player doing the same thing *at the same time* would not have been sent off either. Fact is refs interpret things differently according to when they occur in the game. It was the 20th minute or so. I strongly suspect that if it was in the 80th minute he would have been sent off.
Yeah. Would it have been given against Salah? No. Would it have been given in the 20th minute of any marquee game where there was, as there was here, the slightest wiggle room? No, or at least, very unlikely. The big picture is that Liverpool hadn't had a player sent off in over two years, and yet they've whined intensely and for a long time about an opposing player not getting sent off. What's going on is bullying, which shouldn't be a surprise, because in the Premier League, bullying officials by the big teams works. And the reason PL officiating is worse than any other league I've ever seen is that bullying officials works better and carries less risk (see Klopp receiving no further punishment).
Refs are told now that they need to "manage the event". They're very aware that there's a spectacle on display and aren't supposed to "ruin it". It's one of the major reasons that we have so many inconsistent decisions, in my opinion.
Yeah seems to be happening to many sports now. The F1 debacle for example, that was all for tv and to create drama when in reality the race should have had quite a dull finish
I really can not stand Klopp, he is a truly awful human being, a hypocrite, a bad loser, a bully who fails to see when his team are dragged along by the officials, but pathetically stamps his feet like a spoilt child when a result goes against him. As well as regularly abusing officials without punishment, and throwing his face into the face of rival coaches and officials, spreading disease, there really is nothing to like about the bloke. As for the media, they are what they are, a large portion are an agenda driven collection of former Pool players, who are there to help influence things in Pool`s favour and create a victim narrative, when in fact it is the exact opposite 90% of the time. It works too, we almost always see weak referees falling over themselves to give Pool the benefit of doubt, dragging them up the league. On the very rare occasion a bad decision is perceived to have gone against Pool (does not happen very often), they can not stand it because they are so used to getting their own way, they are like a spoilt child. It is talked about for days on end and there are mass outpourings of grief, but when Salah is gifted a penalty for his latest dive, it is swiftly swept under the carpet and forgotten about.
Despite Chelsea and Tottenham being bitter rivals, the one thing both sets of fans would agree on is the bias shown towards "red legacy" clubs. Every team in the country has seen their teams robbed at Old Trafford or Anfield, whether it's Pedro Mendes or Luis Garcia.
