Before VAR when a mistake was made, you could feel some sympathy as the game is played at such a pace nowadays.

The scouse pen is completely different in that they had time to analyse it and came to that decision. Football is sometimes about opinions but this is not one of those situations….it was not a pen. You could easily argue a yellow for Jota.

The check on the offside is absurd and you could see Dermot Gallagher’s embarrassment at explaining it. Complete bollox.

Personally, I do not believe in corruption but there has always been an unconscious bias towards the top teams.

Hate scousers.

Ok I've had another look and paused it where the keeper slids in an makes contact with the Cardiff player. The LiVARpool defender is in line with the keeper, roughly about 6 to 8 feet away. If the Cardiff player had evaded the scything foul and emerged with the ball he would have been in with the opportunity of a punt toward the open goal, albeit from about 40 yards. I think most professional players can hit the target from that sort of distance, so this was a clear scoring opportunity denied by foul play.
Crucially it was 0-0 at the time and Cardiff were playing with good intent. Sound familiar?

Edited by southnorwoodhill (08 Feb 2022 9.58am)

Totally disagree, sounds like "your ref" got it wrong too.. if a defender/outfield player had made that challenge in the same sort of situation he would've/should've been RED carded.. apart from anything else the keeper had his studs up, another RED card challenge by todays rules.. as for the paltry "punishment" Kevin Friend was given, it means nothing now as it won't change the result.. the scoucers cheated once AGAIN and got away with it once AGAIN.. SALAH one of the worst.. why hasn't Craig Pawson been "punished"?.. Friend hadn't given the penalty, Pawson told him to look at the VAR monitor suggesting/telling him it was a pen.. also what about their 2nd goal against us, Roberto Firmino in an offside position and interfering with play.. where was VAR, Pawson, then telling Friend it was offside.. both should be demoted and/or fined.. it does smack of favouritism particularly when you add in the two very bad decisions against Cardiff at the weekend when it was still 0-0..

Or they rush to say - it looks worse than it is

So every pundit was wrong, every other player who commented and every fan - except for one or two Liverpool ones - are also wrong. Fair enough, glad that's sorted out.
What I will say is we should get over it now. It's in the past. Win tonight.

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