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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3



I made my peace with it weeks ago. Today hurts much less as a result.

Unless something spectacular happens they look odds on to finally win a title.

My personal hope is the ever funny looking Brendan Roger's inspired Leicester to pop them at the last. Preferably with a high profile slip up from one of their bigger whoppers a significant factor. That would be delicious.

Not gonna happen though is it?
 
Unless something spectacular happens they look odds on to finally win a title.

My personal hope is the ever funny looking Brendan Roger's inspired Leicester to pop them at the last. Preferably with a high profile slip up from one of their bigger whoppers a significant factor. That would be delicious.

Not gonna happen though is it?
No
 

Another game they get every decision going from the VAR brought in to hand them the title. Salah offside, Alexander handball.

30 years under normal circumstances without a title, technology hands it to them.


My hope for the future is that this young Chelsea team come through and the game's authorities and the media are going to be set a conundrum who to favour: the team of the British Establishment or a London team.
 
I really don't know what to make of this sport anymore. VAR hasn't really changed much in regards to Liverpool getting every decision in their favour - whether domestically or in Europe it has always been the case that they are gift wrapped decisions constantly.

What VAR has shone a light on however, is either the sheer incompetence of Premier League officiating - or possible corruption. The decision not to award that penalty today was absolutely disgraceful, just like the Alli one against us it ticked every single box of what a handball is. Arm outstretched? Check. Enough distance to avoid the ball? Check. Arm moves towards the ball? Check.

However unlike the Alli one against us, which took around 4 minutes to decide on, this took about 10 seconds. They had ample time to look at it due to the break in play after the RS goal, but I seriously doubt they even looked at it. The Salah goal as well, it's debatable whether he's offside or not, but it's absolutely not debatable that it was close. How can the one against Sheff Utd yesterday take nearly 4 minutes to overrule yet this one was done in about 15 seconds? I'm pretty sure Sky drew an angled offside line to make it look like he was on, you could tell by the cut of the grass that the blue line they drew across the pitch wasn't straight.

Having said all of that, it's an absolute certainty they win this now. They need to lose 3 games now and even on days where they are going to drop points, like at home against Leicester, a referee will just bail them out. What we are watching is not football, it is scripted entertainment.
 
So far this season we´ve had:

Danny Ings missing an open goal in the 90th minute
Sheffield United goalkeeper howler in the 80th minute
90th minute penalty vs Leicester
85th minute equaliser against United
1-0 down in the 87th minute to win 2-1 against Villa
Blatant handball missed by VAR in today´s game

There´s only been 12 games FFS.
 

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