The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 16]

[ferrisbueller]

Given the desperation to learn about history, the Nazis, WW2 etc, I'm surprised Roy made Hennessy sit on the bench when he could have been on his sofa watching all the war films on TV this weekend.

[wjb]

NRS said:

Flip Martian said:

wjb said:

He was being fouled, so it's a 100% penalty.

But it was a dive.

Salah is a strong lad, he could've stayed in his feet if he wanted to, but didn't.

Had he stayed on his feet the ball would've gone out of play and he wouldn't have got anything.

So he had to go down to get a pen.

He did stay on his feet in the first grapple - he went down after the 2nd, and frankly until Refs start penalising grappling in the box again, he needed to go down to get it.

That's what we're all saying. It was a clear pen. However Salah did go down very easily, as nothing was being given up to that point.

So we're all happy that it's a dive then?

Loved Millie's celebration too.

[TTmonkey]

Clear pen for me. The Cardiff defender was being very stupid to do that with the ref positioned there. ..

Shame as it spoilt a tight finish for us ‘neutrals’ ( )

[ChocolateFrog]

I know it's as old as time but this still made me laugh.

[NRS]

Is that a pic of the Salah pen?

[ChocolateFrog]

Gary Neville is just checking the replay.

[RWD cossie wil]

Another banana skin successfully negotiated, made hardish work of it really considering the chances we created...

Salah was a stonewall pen, anywhere else on the pitch it’s a free kick & probably a booking.

[ferrisbueller]

ChocolateFrog said:

Gary Neville is just checking the replay.

He can't cope.

[wjb]

ferrisbueller said:

ChocolateFrog said:

Gary Neville is just checking the replay.

He can't cope.

He spoke well about us, he was more annoyed about Utd.

[ferrisbueller]

wjb said:

ferrisbueller said:

ChocolateFrog said:

Gary Neville is just checking the replay.

He can't cope.

He spoke well about us, he was more annoyed about Utd.

Watched a MNF segment the other week where he and Carra went through their predictions until the end of the season. He'd much rather Man City win the league and is no doubt relieved they now can't do the quadruple. His suffering is different to ours, but at least he's suffering.

[anonymous-user]

ferrisbueller said:

Watched a MNF segment the other week where he and Carra went through their predictions until the end of the season. He'd much rather Man City win the league and is no doubt relieved they now can't do the quadruple. His suffering is different to ours, but at least he's suffering.

The truth is UTD fans would rather Citeh won an unprecedented domestic treble than for us to win the league.

[selym]

desolate said:

ferrisbueller said:

Watched a MNF segment the other week where he and Carra went through their predictions until the end of the season. He'd much rather Man City win the league and is no doubt relieved they now can't do the quadruple. His suffering is different to ours, but at least he's suffering.

The truth is UTD fans would rather Citeh won an unprecedented domestic treble than for us to win the league.

Their angst is beautiful - long may they be in between such a painful rock and a hard place.

[CharlieH89]

selym said:

desolate said:

ferrisbueller said:

Watched a MNF segment the other week where he and Carra went through their predictions until the end of the season. He'd much rather Man City win the league and is no doubt relieved they now can't do the quadruple. His suffering is different to ours, but at least he's suffering.

The truth is UTD fans would rather Citeh won an unprecedented domestic treble than for us to win the league.

Their angst is beautiful - long may they be in between such a painful rock and a hard place.

Mad thing is they have the financials, fan base and stadium they just don’t have a clue how to run the club in the correct way since Ferguson left and his magic spell lifted from over them, thankfully.

The summer before Klopp arrives (whIch was the October) and the season after, we still have Milner, Gomez, Firmino, Mane, Wijnaldum, Matip.

They have Martial, Pogba and Bailey.
A Martial who has never really been consistent, an injury prone Bailly and a wanna be superstar who made it in a farmers league and has seemed to have caused disruption since.

Obviously we are blessed with Edwards and Klopp but Man Utd are in the top 3 of football franchises with Real and Barca, you think by now they would have developed a structure to succeed after Ferguson.
Then again, Real and Barca have been propped up by La Liga, the Spanish government, Ronaldo and Messi in recent years.

[ChocolateFrog]

They're just 24 points off the pace now.

[type-r]

selym said:

desolate said:

ferrisbueller said:

Watched a MNF segment the other week where he and Carra went through their predictions until the end of the season. He'd much rather Man City win the league and is no doubt relieved they now can't do the quadruple. His suffering is different to ours, but at least he's suffering.

The truth is UTD fans would rather Citeh won an unprecedented domestic treble than for us to win the league.

Their angst is beautiful - long may they be in between such a painful rock and a hard place.

It's truly beautiful to see.

Just seen Ole's post match interview. He looked totally betrayed. His players owe him and the fans a performance. Hopefully this defeat works in our favour and we see them fighting for the badge they supposedly represent on Wednesday night.

[Chris Stott]

It’s the managers job to drive the culture in the team... seems a few of the United team haven’t got the message yet, and some of them might never get it.

Different boss, same st. Long may it continue.

[l354uge]

Unbelievable amount of Egyptians giving milner hell for taking the penalty earlier...

[Flip Martian]

wjb said:

So we're all happy that it's a dive then?

If going down while being manhandled by a defender bigger than you is a dive, yes. I equate diving with "no-one touched me but I'll pretend he did".

[RichB]

TTmonkey said:

Clear pen for me. The Cardiff defender was being very stupid to do that with the ref positioned there...

Clearly being fouled so a penalty kick was correct.

[wjb]

Great result yesterday, quite a bit of footy on this week to keep us going till Friday too.

Huddersfield are awful, but I don't suspect that Klopp will take them lightly, even with Barca round the corner. And neither should we.

Flip Martian said:

wjb said:

So we're all happy that it's a dive then?

If going down while being manhandled by a defender bigger than you is a dive, yes. I equate diving with "no-one touched me but I'll pretend he did".

Judging by other threads and social media this debate is gonna rumble on forever

At the end of the day, if you are brought down by the defender then it's not a dive, if you go down, when you don't need to, (a commentator might describe it as going down easily) then in my book it's a dive.

Salah arguably could've stayed on his feet yesterday, but why should he? He was being fouled.

Refs will usually only book a player for "diving" if there is no contact, which is why Salah never gets booked, because there's always contact when he goes down.

It's still diving imo, but I've not got a problem with it. Especially when it goes our way.

Did you see Martial's dive yesterday? Hilarious