Match Thread Liverpool 1-0 Everton, Wed 2nd April 20:00

[Dixieslaces]

One absolute whopper at work today nearly in tears because I wouldn’t agree that Tarkowski should receive a retrospective 3 match ban, he looked at me all confused and said “ You aren’t even ashamed are you”? obviously I replied that my only shame was that Tarkowski didn't have to prise the remnants of Macalisters kneecap off his boot with a penknife. He genuinely seemed traumatised, the little quilt!

Just in case you'd forgotten like

Ask if he is ashamed of this the absolute bell whiff

 

[mahermi1]

Van Duck was named MOTM on the premier league app!! How I don’t know.

Well to be fair, it was probably the greatest air shot ever seen when Beto walked past him an hit the post..

 

[Sixty Nine Seventy]

Anyone remember Jimmy Case ending the career of Geoff Nulty in a derby game?

 

[witchdoc187]

Ask if he is ashamed of this the absolute bell whiff

His one against Onana in the goodison derby was worse. They always get upset when I tell them vvd got hurt trying to injure Pickford.

 

[Neiler]

This is actually bananas!

 

[JelavicBrate2]

One absolute whopper at work today nearly in tears because I wouldn’t agree that Tarkowski should receive a retrospective 3 match ban, he looked at me all confused and said “ You aren’t even ashamed are you”? obviously I replied that my only shame was that Tarkowski didn't have to prise the remnants of Macalisters kneecap off his boot with a penknife. He genuinely seemed traumatised, the little quilt!

Go into work with a Madrid shirt with Trent on the back, he'll have a nervous breakdown, they are such entitled nobheads.

 

[windymiller]

By the rules, Diaz is not offside for the goal....but that part of the rule needs to change, you don't always move to the ball in football...at times you do stand still.

Every movement or where a player is standing will affect the opposition and where they supsiquently stand or move too, hence for me he SHOULD be off-side.

Honestly, I have no idea what the offside rule is any more. If Tarkowski leaves that ball and Diaz takes one step towards it then he's definitely offside. If Tarkowski plays it and Diaz doesn't get near it apparently he's not offside, despite the fact that Tarkowski only plays it because he can't be sure if Diaz is onside or not. That's my understanding, which is probably wrong, but, if it's right, means the rules are completely nonsensical. I'm not sure why they have to change the offside rule every single season. It certainly hasn't made football more fun to watch. Top level football becomes more of a chore to watch every season.

 

[RomanReigns]

The offside rule is pathetic in its current format

Are defenders meant to have eyes in the back of their head now to check if the opponent’s player is onside or offside before attempting to play the ball

Ridiculous

If he’s stood offside and the ball was intended to go to him then he’s offside

Simple as

 

[kenada_blue]

He kicked him so hard he got Nunez a booking.

Lol exactly.

But really does show how bad the standards of refereeing are when theyve been told to not hesitate and dish out yellow cards for "time wasting"...

But leg breaking challenges or pull backs on counter attacks are open to interpretation

 

[Marius57]

VVD

This is actually bananas!

crazy. The var check for Beto didn’t even draw any lines and the image they had on didn’t even have the ball in the picture to show the frame it was actually passed

 

[Vintage]

BBC have an article on the foul and the offside decision.

Foul gets 5 headings and a ‘have your say”.

Offside gets 1 heading!

Ya saw that this morning and went down to the comment section. 3rd comment down I just had to screenshot it at the time. They just will never let it go

 

[Tim's tourettes]

I'm a 46yr old man and I shouldn't feel such childish glee that they are so upset with the tackle.

 

[Saint Domingo]

It’s another game though where every one of their players look quicker than ours. It was probably only Beto who is playing at the same pace as them. Until we put an 11 out who can match them for speed we’re not going to be beating them regularly. We need to stop buying slow players. Even some of our better ones like Gueye Alcaraz Tarkwoski, they’re too slow. Harrison is too slow, so is McNeil, even O Brien was getting pegged back every time Dias got it.

We need real pace in midfield, out wide and upfront to compete again. That’s something the 13/14 team had in spades with McCarthy Barkley Coleman Baines Lukaku Mirallas Distin Stones Jags could all shift. Moyes’s previous teams of Pienaar Osman Arteta Cahill just got ran over by Liverpool teams who are bigger and faster.

We need pace everywhere to compete.

 

[Vintage]

VVD

crazy. The var check for Beto didn’t even draw any lines and the image they had on didn’t even have the ball in the picture to show the frame it was actually passed

Ya no lines drawn so how did they come up with it being a definite offside. Was the line technology not working and they went with the on field decision? At the time thought Beto was inline with the rs shoulder

 

[Vintage]

It’s everywhere. Saw one fan call for Tarks and Pickford to be arrested .

Feel sorry for the ref, people saying it was too big for him etc. He wasn’t actually allowed to ref the game, big Virg was in charge (ripping the ball out of the refs hands and telling him it was an uncontested drop ball to their player in their half rather than what the ref had planned to do to restart the game).

Assertion on Sky that “only Tarkowski knows” whether the offside player interfered with his decision making. Erm. That’s a funny rule then if only one person in the world knows the truth, but that person can’t have any input on the decision. Pfft. If the player wasn’t there Tarks doesn’t lunge and stab the ball aimlessly into a dangerous area. He’s played 500 times at this level. Trying to overcomplicate it with wordings and line of sight nonsense. It’s the simplest decision of the night, totally wrong, and barely mentioned other than by Moyes.

Also no mention of VVD trying to do an accidental stamp on Beto’s arm, fortunately, just like his attempted clearance, he missed.

No wonder refs are generally biased towards them. Every decision that they make that the rs don't like is forensically analysed and criticised by that lot and the media vastly more than any other club I can think of. Last 2 derbies being the prime example of that with headlines being 'controversial derby' with the so called controversial calls going against them being analysed to the hilt compared to ones against us.
No doubt refs go into Liverpool games knowing they will be scrutinised under a microscope if they don't side towards them far more than any other team