Match Threads Spurs vs Liverpool - Match Day 7 - 30th Sept KO 5:30pm

[Wick3d]

I do hope this doesn’t interfere with Brighton V Liverpool this weekend, there is going to be so much scrutiny over the officials, no doubt Klopp will bring it up in his press conference. Hope the ref is strong enough not to let pressure get to him (in terms of giving Liverpool dodgy decisions). Shit game to officiate

I imagine someone like Oliver or Taylor might get it, seeing as they are viewed as the 'top' officials we have.

 

[wadewill]

Liverpool are only kicking up a fuss as a warning to officials when decisions don't go their way. Straight out of the Wenger/Jose/SAF playbook this.

They know this was simply down to human error and not corruption.

Agreed, its nothing that isnt expected of this awful club.

They will get all 50/50 decisions for the foreseeable especially at Anfield, it just means more so its not really fair that they lose games

 

[ernie78]

Hope we pip them to the title by a point - imagine!!!

Goal difference would be even funnier

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Goal difference would be even funnier

Please let it be so. It would be absolutely delicious

 

[Gb160]

It will be overturned, wrongly.

Doubt it.

 

[Yid-ol]

It will be overturned, wrongly.

I still can't see how they can overturn it. If they do any challenge where the player touches the ball slightly but goes into an opponents leg (bending it backwards) cent be a red card then.

Yes he got the top of the ball, but he then isn't in control of the challenge as he's slid over/off the ball into his leg. You can't control the ball(or tackle) hitting the top of the ball like that.

There have been a few in the past where a similar challenge of going over the ball into the opponent has been a red

 

[McGoose]

I'm still confused why it needs to be refs/ex refs in the Var box anyway other than it's jobs for the boys on retirement.

All you have to do in that job is know the laws inside out, and be good at analysing video footage. I also don't understand why we aren't recruiting the best refs from around the world to referee the most high profile league in the world.

This is something I've been thinking as well. PL attracts top players and coaches from around the world, why not the same for referees? It would improve the average refereeing quality significantly.

 

[DarwinSpur]

I was at the game so can I ask the TV viewers, were Liverpool that good? I didn't feel any jeopardy at the ground bar the double save and the goal.

The only pressure I felt was when they went down to 9, and we "had" to win.

Listening to the backlash it makes it sound like Liverpool were neigh on guaranteed winners if not for the reds.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I can’t wait to get past this tedious media circus and get on with football again

Liverpool are coming across badly here

 

[mil1lion]

It will be overturned, wrongly.

Don't know how it can be. The ref has used VAR to review and make a decision. Essentially it's already been reviewed.

 

[easley91]

Liverpool coming across like the whiny heel in wrestling who got "cheated" out of a win and now want a rematch on their own terms.

Sod it. Ange v Klopp ladder match. Winner takes the points.

 

[luRRka]

Don't know how it can be. The ref has used VAR to review and make a decision. Essentially it's already been reviewed.

Although I don't see how it can as jones is an obvious red, MacAlister had his overturned already this season despite VAR reviewing it. (Although it wasn't VAR recommending the yellow be upgraded). Wasn't Son against Gomes reviewed and then rescinded?

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Liverpool coming across like the whiny heel in wrestling who got "cheated" out of a win and now want a rematch on their own terms.

Sod it. Ange v Klopp ladder match. Winner takes the points.

I know that statement was fucking poor but have Liverpool actually asked for a replay now?

 

[Toast]

The counter-press begins

https://www.football365.com/news/sy...limitless-sporting-integrity-statement-absurd

 

[mil1lion]

Although I don't see how it can as jones is an obvious red, MacAlister had his overturned already this season despite VAR reviewing it. (Although it wasn't VAR recommending the yellow be upgraded). Wasn't Son against Gomes reviewed and then rescinded?

I don't recall VAR for the Son one, the ref made the decision and VAR didn't get involved as they deem the ref saw it and it was a clear foul. I guess the ref took another look after the game and agreed it was wrong. The refs decision should be final and VAR allows them a 2nd look to make their decision. Maybe the ref should ask to check VAR more in these situations. I thought it was used well for the Jones one.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

The counter-press begins

https://www.football365.com/news/sy...limitless-sporting-integrity-statement-absurd

He's right, their statement was a huge mistake for the reasons he went into and his double right, this isn't the first time a game has been decided or influenced by an officiating error. Very poor from them, to say the least.

 

[gilzeantheking]

Breaking News on BBC. Pool have formally requested the VAR audio recording of the game

 

[PCozzie]

The counter-press begins

https://www.football365.com/news/sy...limitless-sporting-integrity-statement-absurd

That is excoriating. Fantastic.

 

[spursfan77]

The problem, certainly for the PGMOL, is that there are some very powerful voices making money off these mistakes. Webb should never have agreed to take part in that TV show the other week. They need to show some real steel now; get the PL bigwigs in and together read the riot act to the various managers / clubs. They've dug themselves into a hole with all these apologies. It's never going to end.

This all day. It’s why they can’t bend to Liverpool at all. The PGMOL will have an investigation into what happened I’m sure but that will probably be as far as it will go. I’ve a feeling they are as fed up with Liverpool as much as everyone else hence the fines and bans to Klopp etc.

 

[spursfan77]

The counter-press begins

https://www.football365.com/news/sy...limitless-sporting-integrity-statement-absurd

The guy who wrote that is a spurs fan. These paragraphs should go down spectacularly well!

“There are not many things in this world less Tory than the fine city of Liverpool, but its leading football club certainly here appears to be borrowing from the current Tory Party playbook of making loud and increasingly ridiculous noises as you tilt at windmills for the benefit specifically of your base while making everyone else think you might slightly have lost your minds.

Liverpool fans, high on righteous anger and a sense of injustice, have lapped it up. But it’s a ridiculous statement full of errant nonsense.”