I know you didn't mean it literally.
Indeed it is, they clearly stated at the start of the season they were goingh to crack down on it, just not consistently as Dalot found out not so long ago
Oliver quite clearly wanted to make an example that match. It just so happened that it was Against United. Pure coincidence. Oliver fekking United
In fairness we were constantly battering through the back of Morris miles from goal as if he was some kind of epic threat.
Pretty much the same as Woodrow earlier on in the game, on a yellow and late into a challenge. Didn't generate any comments though.
We weren't though. Once or twice, maybe. Other than that it was bog standard close defending that happens so many times in every game it barely registers. I think it was the worst reffing performance of the season.
An inconsistent area of focus as usual though which is the issue
Dissent has always been one of the most inconsistent bookings, and is probably the hardest thing to be consistent on unless you blanket ban just about everything.
I used to be firmly in this camp for a very long time. However, when you have Michael Oliver, et al. willingly accepting c. 25-35% of their salary (declared amount) to referee Sunday League level games in the Middle East, paid for by the owners of two clubs who are already extensively involved in corruption, money laundering and financial doping, it is not implausible that there is corruption in the league.
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"He may think it's a penalty but not enough of an error to overrule the referee"
Yeah this has come up before and makes sense to me. I've no idea what the three of them are talking about though. The argument that the defender is forced to commit the foul because he's off-side is just nonsense.
Absolute jebend!
Absolutely nothing happened in the 2nd half that warranted more added time than that. No goals, no injuries, no meaningful stoppages of any kind. It's insufferable that people keep spewing these ABU conspiracy lies based on literally nothing. They're so eager for a narrative where the refs help United that they'll just make up whatever nonsense they want to justify that. It's one thing when random fans do it, but a fecking PL manager? Beyond pathetic.
We made three of our subs during the first half or half-time so there's not even that.
When in doubt, take Liverpool side. Else the media blowback will be terrible
Can't halt the Klopp farewell tour.
Even that wouldn't have been the issue. Issue was Endo was offside and this interfering with play.
.That’s ridiculous….it suggests that a few clubs have had one or two decisions go their way over 20 years and we have had dozens.75% of the vid is just showing how we benefited from decisions
It probably didn't rise to the level of a foul in all honesty. That kind of thing happens on every set piece constantly.
That makes sense, but kind of makes it weirder that he was deemed active but his actions were not significant enough to be a foul and you hardly ever get done for being active unless you're right in the keeper's face and even then, hardly ever. He took the defender's attention granted, but seems like they were levelling up the really tight offside goal, which they didn't show the lines for dodgily.
Well he was interfering with play therefore offside. He quite clearly blocked off the defenders run and wasn't even looking at the ball. If it isn't a foul it should be.
How does it look onside?
