05 Feb 2018 10:00:52
I saw someone saying how pundits said Lamela was definitely fouled on some analysis after the game and the poster was angry about that.

What we need to keep in mind is who these individual pundits are, what they did in their career in these situations themselves i. e. Thierry Henry is a pundit for Sly, if there's a contentious handball incident in the future that he has to analyse, how can we take him seriously doing so when he himself famously intentionally did so in a very big international match a few years back, then sat on the pitch with the team he cheated - may as well ask Maradonna for his opinion.

Diving and other cheating tactics has become part of the game over the last 15 years or so (especially), it is the authorities' fault for not stamping it out at the time - I remember it was even brought into an official FIFA video game when I was a kid, talk about glamourising it FIFA, well done there lads?!

Cheating needs to be stamped out, Gerrard used to annoy me to my deepest roots diving for pens a few years ago - he was one of the worst, the law makers need to either make this a completely non-contact sport or crack down on all diving cheaters.


1.) 05 Feb 2018
05 Feb 2018 10:12:05
Even though I think both pens were dives Souness and Carragher thought they were both fouls.
There's no conspiracy against Liverpool.


2.) 05 Feb 2018
05 Feb 2018 10:33:36
Don't think there's a conspiracy at all lol.
It was just awful assistant refereeing in my opinion as he couldn't have been 100% clear.


3.) 05 Feb 2018
05 Feb 2018 11:05:42
Flidby, no one is saying that and to my mind, Souness and Carra (who rarely has anything good to say about Klopp, mind you) cannot say they were dives YET say they were fouls. Both cannot be correct at the same time. The first pen is not even worth the time as it was offside based on Law 11 (page 22) of the offside law.

On the second, the ref saw it and waved it away as play acting until the linesman (who missed a blatant Lamela offside prior) convinced him of seeing from 25 yards away, what the ref did not see from 10 yards out. We got robbed by two clueless clowns who let the game get away from them and don't even know the offside rule and had to ask Eriksen if Lovren touched the ball. Yeah, that happened. If you have to do that as a ref then, you need to be sacked as a PL ref.


4.) 05 Feb 2018
05 Feb 2018 15:37:45
Worse the the 2 clowns on the pitch was the so called refereeing expert dermot Gallagher, who agreed and indeed praised them on their work. Considering he had all replays of the incidents before commenting!


5.) 05 Feb 2018
05 Feb 2018 16:14:09
I seem to remember when it came out in the FIFA game is was essentially a trap - when someone broke into the code they realised it had something ridiculous like a 99.99% chance of getting a yellow card for it. Similarly there was a foul button, but it was a trap - you got called up for it basically every time. It seemed like a promotion of the tactic but the reality was it was meant to be a 'crime doesn't pay' type message. Sadly it didn't really work because no-one remembered the 1000 times you were carded for it, you remember the glorious moment you win the CL final when it worked.


6.) 05 Feb 2018
05 Feb 2018 19:20:25
seems to me that the pundits on Sly Sports have a certain agenda, and they would prefer that Liverpool were not top dogs, we just have to prove them wrong .


7.) 07 Feb 2018
07 Feb 2018 01:17:26
Happy - I hope you aren't implying that another part of the media empire owned by the owner of the S*n might have some invested interests in LFC having a quieter voice in British sports.