Paul Tomkins
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Sportswriter/novelist. Bald LFC writer (with M.E.) for 20+ years, TTT since '09, and author of 15 books. Links
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"BREAKING! New Shocking Audio Leaked of Stuart Attwell as VAR"
Complete with unheard Howard Webb and Michael Owen discussions on various contentious decisions
#PGMOL
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Martin Tyler just said "we support the underdogs here". Why not just commentate? Do your job properly. That's all.
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The time-wasting in that game by Newcastle was probably the worst I've seen in my life. Worse than Atletico. At times, 4 and 5 down with cramp, faking injury, holding heads. Ref just let it slide. Thankfully Carvalho made use of the time added to time added to time added. GET IN!
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Imagine if LFC had a game refereed by a referee from Liverpool, and the VAR was from Liverpool, and they gave 3 big calls in Liverpool's favour in a big game with a lot at stake? I mean, switch Liverpool for Manchester and you have tonight's match. I don't care who they "support"
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X-rated stuff this. Both players locking arms. Gordon then goes limp (classic Vardy tactic) but actually treads on Matip's foot. It's brutal stuff. Really, one for a trigger warning. Wasn't this the entire reason they changed "contact alone is not enough for a penalty?"
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Sickening misuse of VAR by Darren England who never makes subjective overturns (2 in 55 games). Shows the ref the still frame that is the aftermath. And the ref who has only made one big decision in 18 games sends off Jones. Farcical. These officials are beyond a joke.
#LFC
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Looking on the BBC Football page. Can't see any Man City stories. Pep must be right!
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Atkinson had ignored fouls on Origi and Mané before Origi was fouled. He's a fucking disgrace. VAR then ignores what Gary Neville calls a clear foul. Liverpool have to overcome clear bias against black foreign players by refs.
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Salah has his throat grabbed when going past a man in the box. No penalty. Obviously. Throat-grabbing is all part of the game.
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I called Darren England and the Yorkshire PGMOL mafia out at the end of last season. It's not an accident. It's in the data.
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Just falling short in the Premier League (possibly) and Champions League when setting records these past 2 seasons is merely bittersweet; it's not pain, as there's too much pleasure wrapped up too. Being soulless and average and dull is far more deadening. This
#LFC
side is a joy
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Football's a bit easier if you can get your games cancelled before playing Liverpool.
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"LFC don't play good football". LFC break passing record for entire PL era. "LFC only score set-piece goals". Liverpool score 22 goals since last set-piece goal (excluding two 2nd-phase). "Liverpool get too many penalties at Kop end". Still only 2 in PL at Kop end since 2017.
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Salah fouled in the box. Referee from Manchester says no. LFC remain on 5 PL penalties this season, Manchester clubs 23 combined. Salah "was looking for it". And Sterling the other day wasn't? Vardy and Kane don't "look for it"?! Salah is the only one who has to stay on his feet
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I noted this at the time, but this is also the ref who gave Van Dijk an extra game for swearing at him. Incredible that Odergaard didn't get booked, yet Elliott got booked for less. Consistency should be fairly simple on stuff like this (but then Brooks is fairly simple)
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Incident occurred at 0-0, would have put LFC 1-0 up. Changed game. That level of error is not acceptable, and calls result into question. Integrity of PL and PGMOL at stake (the latter have little).
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Scandalous by Martin Atkinson yet again. Every time he fucks us. Totally right on the red card for Alisson - stonewall red - but you can't blow the whistle to take the free-kick while the sub keeper has only just got into position to line up the wall!
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Liverpool poor tonight. But Martin Atkinson was a disgrace. Keita clearly fouled in the box, Salah elbowed in chin in the box, and McGuire should have been sent off. Played 30 seconds over the 1 min added in 1st half despite no subs, injuries or stoppages.
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Marriner has let them manhandle Mané and Salah all night. Seriously, it's the worst refereeing performance I've seen since that Man Utd vs Arsenal game in 2004. And now we have VAR ignoring the clear fouls and handballs, to rub salt into the wounds.
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Remember guys, not even a foul. Worth showing to Virgil van Dijk, I reckon!
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Lascelles tackles with wrong foot, nowhere near ball, clatters Salah. Play on!
@adamjrcorbett
By the way this happened about 5 minutes ago.
Salah could have scored which would go towards a potential golden boot.
and Lascelles would have been sent off, and Newcastle play Soton next week who are fighting for survival too.
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Just remembering when Salah was clean through on goal against Newcastle and last-man Lascelles absolutely booted him. No red card. Why? Because no free-kick even given! Another Twilight Zone moment.
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Basic facts. If you take 8 of the best players out of any team it CANNOT be as good long-term. The subs will then be starters. If you take a load of the best subs and make them starters, the bench will not be as good. Unimpeachable logic. That is all
#LFC
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Incredible that MOTD can say Mané dived. Yeah, he could have stayed on his feet but it's a clear kick to the ankle. Once you've been kicked in the penalty area by a defender who gets nowhere near the ball you can do what the hell you want. If you stay on your feet it gets ignored
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But where the fuck is VAR? Where the fucking hell is it? Kop end, where Liverpool have won ONE LEAGUE PENALTY AT THE KOP END SINCE MAY 2017. That's a fucking disgrace. Thankfully Mané makes the ref's incompetence irrelevant. But the trend is a shocker.
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Would be nice if refs focused on fouls rather than booking someone for actually throwing the ball back on the pitch!
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Slightly different when there's no Matip, no Lovren, no Fabinho (5th-choice CB) and you have Jordan Henderson playing his first game at centre-back with a non-specialist holding midfielder. As great as VvD is, he missed Bayern last season and Reds kept a clean sheet.
Liverpool without
@VirgilvDijk
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@VirgilvDijk
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So unlucky, but game should be replayed. Darren England should be sacked.
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Salah fouled in the box for the 2nd game running. Same VAR gives nothing, 2nd game running. Get a legit penalty the other week and the outcry means no more Liverpool penalties. Remain mid-table for penalties over the past 5 seasons, despite 2nd-best attacking numbers
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I live in Leicester. It's a shithole.
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Wait - ESPN have really published an article (saying "look away Liverpool fans") showing that without all the corrective VAR decisions, Liverpool's lead would be roughly halved? So, we've been lucky that the bad decisions refs made were overturned? What a fucking joke!
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So, we didn't get the VAR audio for when Paul Tierney, who hates Klopp, and his VAR assistant, who elbowed Andy Robertson, somehow *agreed* that Mac Allister DESERVED a red – before an independent panel and various people said the red card was "nonsense"? Surprise surprise!
#LFC
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Villa goal rightly given by VAR. Was level. But Firmino also level - goal ruled out by Martin Atkinson playing with the lines arbitrarily like the dick he is. Mané clipped in the box, fat old referee miles away books him. Salah grabbed round neck in the box, ignored as ever.
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Liverpool have absolutely battered City here. Two off the woodwork, two off the line, several saves. Feels like 10-15 efforts this half. Never seen City so totally bossed. But it now comes down to penalty shootout. Anyway, it's just preseason and I'm not too bothered, honest 😜
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It brushes Mané's hand, so disallow it. Fine. But video shows Origi being kicked full on shin and they can't overturn that. Gonna have to beat the refs this season, won't be easy with shitehawks like Atkinson & all the other shit refs. Shame Michael Oliver can't do all the games
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A reminder - no opponent sent off against Liverpool for 2 yellows since 2015. About 300 games ago (literally). Jota sent off for 2 yellows when one wasn't even a foul.
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Still don't think the Reds will win the quadruple. Perhaps a greater probability of ending up with just the League Cup. But whether it's 1, 2, 3 or 4 trophies won, this is a mightily special team/squad, and a joy to behold. Ranked
#1
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Unlucky, Reds. Absolutely battered them, should have been 4 or 5-0 up. Difference: a world-class keeper for Atleti, making 15-or-so saves, and the missing one for Liverpool. But Adrian has helped Reds win 11 of his 11 PL appearances, so no point slating a reserve keeper.
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Fuck off football. Fuck off. Fuck off. That's a fucking foul on Firmino that causes it to hit his arm way earlier in the move. Just fuck off. Fuck off Atkinson and Moss you cheating wankers
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Apart from his 4 goals and the excellent header that was saved, and the hard pressing, and the intelligent runs, what else did Darwin Nunez do in that 45 minutes away against one of the best teams in Germany? Clear waste of money 😜
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A few minutes have passed since the Jota goal. Not been ruled out ... yet. Game is continuing but goal could still be ruled out, via new rules invented on the spot. Maybe it could be for a "dangerous use of the head" when heading the ball...
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I give absolutely zero shit about the "quadruple". Always a tiresome talking point. If it gets down to a few games to go, then fine, talk about it. Also, if
#LFC
win just the PL or the CL (after the EFL Cup), I'll be ecstatic. Winning either of those will be a huge achievement.
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Klopp did right thing in picking the kids. But Bobby and Ox playing well. Glad Liverpool haven't faked things to get games cancelled. This cup remains largely meaningless for Reds. Leicester mid-table, and to play their best XI sums up their season.
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Good job Wilshire is not Liverpool manager, then.
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So excited about this Liverpool team right now. Less excited about 38 must-win games, week after week, for 9 months, and the fallout from any dropped points - in part from the overreaction to setbacks, in part the crazily high bar City have set. Anyway, come on you Reds!
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Maguire did literally just kick Batshuayi in the bollocks. Referee didn't give it. Where's ref from? Oh look, Manchester! It's Anthony Taylor who also didn't see Kompany take out Salah. Funny how many Mancunian refs there are, and how they can ref Manchester teams.
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LFC have to play a rearranged PL game this week as they had two extra games in December. Club was off representing England and the PL at the Club World Cup. Also had European Super Cup. Oh shit, no - no one outside LFC gave a damn as everyone just cares about their own stuff!
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Integrity of the league is in pieces anyway. Play with 6 Covid and various injuries while other clubs get games cancelled with 2 Covid cases. Just a mockery – may as well watch Formula One.
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Liverpool have won fewer penalties in the league in the last 5-6 years than about 10 teams, including Leicester, Brighton and Palace. So yeah, *obviously*
There’s no chance 14/15 sides in the premier league get given that penalty. That’s the bigger problem here.
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2nd yellow data. Penalty data. VAR overturn data (unless offsides). LFC massive outliers in all, in a bad way. Feels like the PGMOL is only getting even more intent on undermining Klopp's Reds. Klopp's Reds fighting hard against the odds.
This is something from last season, with data via
@BassTunedToRed
- 2nd yellows. The last one for a Liverpool opponent was 8 years ago. 300 games. Every regular PL club has had at least FIVE in that time.
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We don't need to win a cup you fucking BBC numpties. We need to try and win the league. Stop talking like the FA Cup still means anything. Winning it did Wenger fuck-all use. As it's a waste of time.
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1-0 Diaz, but a shocking challenge by the keeper. Should be a red card. VAR doesn't even recommend Mike Dean look. Again, PGMOL is a fucking joke. It's every single week. Every single game.
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Just a reminder: LFC have had West Ham's unwanted reserve keeper in goal all season,& absolutely pummelled Leicester with efforts/chances. Faced tougher games than Man City, plus had the Super Cup extra-time in Turkey before Soton away. Just in case anyone is pedalling "lucky" 😉
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Note to Pochettino: You're doing amazingly well on your budget, but if you'd, say, sold Eriksen for £142m you could have bought 2 or 3 players with the money. Liverpool sold Coutinho to improve the team as a whole. Nothing like the way City or United just spend money
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Thankfully the process is independent. But someone has to stop appointing Paul Tierney to Liverpool games in any capacity.
Yet another Paul Tierney masterclass. As I said before the season, his career data suggests he shouldn't be anywhere near Liverpool games. Tierney and his elbowing mate as the VARs, and they couldn't see what was obvious.
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How to perpetuate a myth. 1. Telegraph show photo Salah being "a yard offside", but crop out the player who was level with him (and offside kinda applies to the *whole* defensive line). 2. Ignore major mistake of the game, Keita being taken out in box. Result? "Lucky Liverpool"
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Something about the humanity at LFC, from Klopp down. Amazing team spirit - yes. But good people, too. It's almost as if "don't sign any dickheads" - no matter how talented - is a club policy (oh what, it *is* 😜 ?!)
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Pretend you've got a head injury. Then again. Then again. And again. Then take 2 minutes with every goal kick. Then watch the ref add just 1 minute! Why do time-wasting teams get a free pass to time-waste and spoil? Teams will try it, but up to the ref. This muppet is PL standard
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Fucking hell, the whole Bobby Duncan thing. Not being given what you want immediately when you want it is not bullying. Football is a competitive sport, not a divine right. Don't sign contracts if you don't like conditions. Mental health =serious issue and not to be bandied about
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Sensational! Klopp puts out the reserves out against Everton, Liverpool win 5-2. Klopp puts the U18s out against Everton, and Reds totally outplay Everton's best XI, especially in 2nd half. What next? U15s to start at Goodison Park?
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BTW, something I mention is that it's now THREE-HUNDRED-AND-ONE PL games since a player got a second yellow against Liverpool. (
@BassTunedToRed
spotted it a while ago and someone on TTT totted up the games; was Oct 2015, Mané for Soton.) All other clubs have 5-15 in that time! 🤷♂️
It was brilliant to get him on and very kind of
@paul_tomkins
to give up his time really was for me and
@AnfieldIndex
…
Some incredible insight and data into the
#PGMOL
and many of the main names….
Well worth a listen mates…
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LFC's signing of Ben Davies in doubt after he slipped during the signing of his contract and broke both legs. Duje Caleta-Car, of Marseille, then fell down the steps to the plane, dislocating his knees, elbows and ankles. Sven Botman swallowed up by a sinkhole
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Minamino! 1-1! Funeral from Martin Tyler. Reacts like someone has just died.
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Just seen the Man City news. That's huge, if it doesn't get overturned. They could lose £200m+ in two years with a CL ban (prize money, gate receipts, sponsorship) and not be able to just pump money in to cover the shortfall, lest they just get a further ban.
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I've been talking about Liverpool not getting Anfield penalties in the league for a while. Even less likely at Kop end. Bend-over-backwards bias from refs. Haul Salah's shirt off? Nothing. Pulls his arm? Nothing. Clear handballs?Nothing. Kop earning pens is a myth refs go against
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The line VAR uses isn't even perpendicular! I cut it to a perfect 90º angle, and look - it's angled inwards!
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That was just for the first two weeks of the season, and mostly Liverpool players. Same as kicking the ball away.
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Fucking scandalous. Guardiola got into the officials before the game and studding someone in the chest is not a penalty, it has to be a total wipeout where the player injures himself. Utterly morally corrupt.
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Seriously y'all, 2nd in the PL and in a semi-final midweek. You'd think Liverpool had been relegated. Bunch of utter arses in our fan base
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Just give City the title. They've paid for it. Financial doping and now referee's looking like they've been paid too. Two scandalous decisions this weekend to basically hand it to them on a plate. Ref gives foul against Lallana & then let's Burnley score from much more of a foul
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We didn't get to see the process when Tierney and the guy who elbowed Robertson failed to overturn the red card for Mac Allister (as VAR and assistant), despite their toxic history with LFC. Today is another example of no transparency at the time, but at least acknowledged now
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Dive to save the ball in the box with a raised arm? No penalty. Slide into Mané's standing leg in the box? No penalty. Pogba trips himself? Penalty. Any English player goes over at minimal contact? Penalty.
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Indeed, same ref as well as same VAR. Some double-team of Mancunian jesters! Biased or not, incompetent or not, that Spurs game was the worst officiating I've seen, including the take-out of Jota. It's a grim state of affairs.
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Yet another Paul Tierney masterclass. As I said before the season, his career data suggests he shouldn't be anywhere near Liverpool games. Tierney and his elbowing mate as the VARs, and they couldn't see what was obvious.
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If a player is making a forward (offside) movement on the exact part of the pitch where the ball is played it should be offside. When Mané went for (and missed) Firmino's shot at Spurs he was given offside. Morata is running to where the ball is going to be played = interfering
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Knee-slide into that, Maddison! I didn't care too much until he knee-slid at the Kop. Then it was game on. Reds absolutely battered them 2nd half and deserved to win on penalties. Maddison you beauty!
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Catching up on the fact that lots of people had made the Alisson point before me, but what the hell – it's worth watching again (and again, and again, and again...)
One of the many reasons we’re in the Champions League semi final!
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Get in! Have to say, Gary Neville is the best pundit on TV, but his bias against Mo Salah was pretty shocking. Morrisson had 2 hands around Salah when Salah tried to turn one way, then another, then again - and ends with a forearm in Salah's neck. But Salah went down easy?! WTF?!
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Southampton score after Atkinson doesn't give us a clear free-kick. Classic Atkinson. Given Liverpool one big decision in the league since 2015. Utter joker.
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England fans doing their best to remind me why I no longer give a fuck about the England team.
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Atkinson allowed kicks from behind on Origi + Mané before the goal. Even the handball disallowed goal was a clear foul on Mané. Don't think Atkinson has given LFC a single foul in their half. Expected VAR to overturn bad decisions but continues to just back-up refs' incompetence.
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Salah "goes down easily" when being grabbed round the neck, kicked & then tripped, all while clearly trying to get a shot away. Funnily enough, being up-ended when off-balance can result in you falling quite hard. Anyway, after just 3 penalties to LFC last season, long overdue
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I hope it was offside, as otherwise that penalty not given against Man City is an absolute scandal. About as blatant a handball as you'll see bar going full Maradona.
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An monstrous win tonight. Just a winning machine. 94 points from the last 96. Wolves very good, very fast, and had big chances. But Liverpool will not accept defeat, and right now, won't even accept draws. Even with injuries, just keep finding a way.
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The non-LFC BBC reporters on 5Live covering the game are saying they were there hours before kickoff and Liverpool fans were not being let through even back then. Fans were there on time. Gates not opened.
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Terrible game of football. West Brom were pathetic in the first half, and Liverpool came out for the 2nd half and played like a bunch of individuals. Curtis Jones is a brilliant prospect but he has to watch his arrogance. Cost us a cheap corner and a goal.
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It's a stupid thing to crack down on, of all things (while often ignoring/downplaying violent fouls or persistent fouls). But Mac Allister booked on opening day for doing the card gesture. Zero consistency, even on the technocratic, soulless refereeing stuff.
so you’re telling me joelinton signaled for a card TWICE but never got a yellow… what has happened to this game man
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Still sitting here in a daze. Genuinely can't form coherent thoughts beyond a few lines. Don't blame Michael Oliver at all - he had one angle on the Pickford red, in real time. All the terrible, terrible calls were by Coote on VAR. Good tech in the hands of someone very iffy.
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This is something from last season, with data via
@BassTunedToRed
- 2nd yellows. The last one for a Liverpool opponent was 8 years ago. 300 games. Every regular PL club has had at least FIVE in that time.
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Good result in the end, in ludicrous circumstances. If Kane gets sent off in the first half there's maybe a 90% chance
#LFC
win. But to expect some arsehole as VAR to do his job is to expect too much, in a league where cancellation of games is just as arbitrary. Utter nonsense.
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Not sure how Liverpool had 2/3rds possession but also committed 2/3rds the fouls, but it helps when the ref ignores every foul on your players. Even I'm sick of me moaning about refs but Taylor and Atkinson are awful. Oliver the only really good one.
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It's just so bizarre. Every week. Within 3 seconds that could be a chance at goal. Giving United free-kicks for everything, letting United play on when well offside, giving LFC players offside immediately. It's how officials can shape a game.
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If Liverpool make it through tomorrow to face them, it’ll be youth versus experience; pace versus nous. Ronaldo is 33. Ramos 32. Modric 32. Navas 31. Benzema 30. Marcelo 30 (this month). Kroos 28. Bale turns 29 this summer.
#LFC
average age this season is around 24.5.
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Peter Walton now says it *was* a penalty for Liverpool. But why the fuck didn't it go to VAR? It's not subjective - if you look at the video from all angles you see it's a clear penalty. Contact on a player in the box to bring him down when not getting the ball is a penalty.
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The most enjoyable 5-0 defeat I've ever seen. Even crazier that LFC dominated the ball, the shots, the corners, etc. But without Brewster or Glatzel there wasn't a teenage finisher in what felt like an U13 side 😉 Villa's keeper played a blinder!
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Weird seeing how much fans of a club stranded in mediocrity for 20+ years can still be so hostile, but hey ho. Game meant very little to LFC in terms of priorities. But felt Forest's biggest game for decades. Hope they enjoyed their cup final.
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Alisson has missed half the PL season. Matip - possibly the Reds' best defender in 2019 - has missed over half the season. Keita, who could be the Reds' best midfielder, started only 1 PL game due to injuries. Shaqiri, a key sub, missed most of season. Fabinho out for a few games
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Hmm, I decided late last night that I probably need a break from Twitter again as I'm getting carried away and tweeting far too much. So, 2 weeks off, minimum. Then ... checks City score.
Hello!!
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The good job is that they won't put Tierney straight back onto VAR for Liverpool games after his latest in a line of about 10 shocking decisions, which was overturned by an independent panel.
Oh wait, he's back at the weekend.
So, we didn't get the VAR audio for when Paul Tierney, who hates Klopp, and his VAR assistant, who elbowed Andy Robertson, somehow *agreed* that Mac Allister DESERVED a red – before an independent panel and various people said the red card was "nonsense"? Surprise surprise!
#LFC
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Robertson sent off. Shocking inconsistency from shambolic bunch of officials. VAR is only implemented when they want. English internationals get a free pass.
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