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This thing about "normal contact" is bollocks as well. Willock was in the air and he's been pushed into the keeper. What's he done in between to mean his contact with the keeper was less "normal" than the push on him, turned his fucking jetboots on??

Even if that ref on Saturday was looking at the replay thinking "this is bollocks, I made the right decision" it would have been at the back of his mind that no referee in the PL had ever previously gone to the monitor and not overturned the original decision. That's got to add an additional level of pressure not wanting to be the first to do so and potentially undermining a senior colleague. Especially if it turns out you're wrong. Now that taboo has been broken I reckon we'll see more refs stand by the initial call.

It's mental isn't it. We score a 98th minute winner and I'm floating across to Rosies high on life to enjoy it. You could be forgiven for forgetting that these had actually won the game the tantrums they've all been throwing the last 24 hours. Or that for all they are playing the victim card, they actually got every decision going from the ref on the night. It's bizarre.

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Most Liverpool fans live in Ireland or the Home Counties these days tbf.

Sounds like Blanco's Mrs is furious

We don't know what's gone on behind closed doors, if he's had a longstanding gentleman's agreement that he'd always be allowed to leave for a better opportunity so long as we had cover/weren't in the shit then fair enough. He seemed to have similar at Sparta which is why we got him for so little. If he's just had a tantrum I'd tell him he's staying personally. My concern is that it seemed they were giving Pope painkillers to get him through last night. What caused that and what will the impact be on him?

This won't be a popular opinion on here but I think VAR was used the right way for that offside decision last night. For me, it's there to correct the howlers rather than spending ages re-doing every decision to the millimetre. Which it is impossible to do without a perfect 90 degree angle anyway. There should be an element of umpires call to decisions like that - I'd have been fuming if the flag had stayed down and they had gone back and ruled it out on that evidence. If they're going to use it consistently like that going forward then great, but I suspect they won't. The added time was bullshit and probably the ref letting Klopp's and Liverpool's tantrums get into his head.

Aye, it's a little unfair to hold up a daft celebration at the end of a fractious game when the adrenalin is pumping through their systems in the wider context of incidents that they won't have been thinking of at that moment. Hopefully someone from LFC has a quiet word with them, points out how it might look and they change their celebration. But doesn't warrant any more comment than that.

You joke, but he looked like he was about to do himself some damage during the last 15 mins of that first half. Fucking calm down and work out what you can change yourself you daft bastard. Guardiola has the right idea. Calm, calculating, already working out how he's going to turn things around. And doesn't look like he's going to have a cardiac arrest any moment.

Always the victims...

As long as we've got a clause in place that means we can recall him the minute Pope gets a bad injury. Actually, you probably can't these days with having to name a 25-man squad in advance. So yeah, not a good deal for us imo.

Mowbray is a good bloke who won't demean himself by pissing about with FTM badges just to curry favour. They won't warm to him.

The stat which does tell a story is having over 50% of your shots classed as blocked (as opposed to on or off target.) Backs up the conclusion I reached with my bare eyes that a lot of our attacking players seem to lack conviction and often take 2 or 3 shots where 1 should do to set ourselves before shooting, giving the defence time to close us down. Area for improvement there imo.

Apparently the penalty wasn't given because it "wasn't sustained holding" which is a new one on me. Not quite as bad as the "explanation" after the Chelsea game last season, but it's still bollocks. Has anyone seen the phrase "sustained holding" in the laws or guidance on interpretation this season? If not it just seems like they're making up the rules after the event.

Definitely thick enough to be genuine mackems

I think Leeds will beat Brentford, simply because they have to. On the presumption that Trippier is ready to start and Wilson also starts, I don't think we will lose to Burnley.

Leeds as of... now

"The missus and I went for a drink in town after we played there and had Sunderland fans jeering and sneering at us, going on about how they were all over us (they weren't) how boring we are to watch etc. Picking on a innocuous middle aged couple supporting a much smaller club? Definitely a huge chip on their collective shoulder." How many clubs have these fallen out with from acting like whoppers during their time in division three?

"Sunderland's biggest problem is they talk Barcelona, while producing League 1." Barcelona of the North, marra

Getting Jack Clarke and Patrick Roberts on loan was shrewd as fuck to be fair. Head and shoulders above this league.

Hoof. Hoof. Hoof. Every fucking time.

No quality in this game whatsoever. And how slow is Gregory for a striker? Looks like he's running with his legs tied together

I thought the mackem mantra on gateshead was to accept that the majority support Newcastle but it was OK marra because "one of ours from there is worth ten of theirs." In terms of the football club I thought it was common knowledge that a lot of our dafties go and watch them if/when they're serving banning orders from nufc, unless that's not a thing anymore? Not condoning this behaviour but it can't be more than ten years since their fans got Channel by Gateshead at services on an awayday twice in a matter of months.

It is considered a trophy, but it's (rightly imo) not a major trophy. How could it be when by definition the best teams in the country don't play in it? If we're honest, the big prize in that division is promotion to the PL with the trophy being no more than a nice bonus for whoever finishes top. Iirc you actually get a trophy to lift for finishing second in that division now If anyone starts trying to use second division titles to prove they're a "big club" then they're only really proving that they're not.