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There’s software which can be used to detect if original audio files have been altered or doctored. Unfortunately, I suspect LFC won’t get any file from the PGMOL without having to resort to legal action first.

That’s what those cunts at Stockley Park said after the game on Saturday evening.

Good things come in small parcels though, look at the size of their trophy cabinet compared to, well, anyone else’s!

……..club gets played?

Webb: “The lads forgot to switch the recording machine on. We’ve said sorry, so that’s the matter closed. Unless you carry on making a noise, in which case you won’t get a single decision from my lads. Capiche?”

You’d think. Warnock making things awkward for Gallagher on Sky currently, but the narrative from all the media I’ve read/heard today is what “options” do we mean and how are LFC going to escalate this to a resolution. Almost saying we’re cheeky bastards for not accepting what has been given by PGMOL and we should just accept our fate. Going nowhere this.

Very good. Just a pity they couldn’t have squeezed a last minute penalty in for Tottenham before Matip’s own goal. Would’ve been their game of the decade.

April 4th 2018 LFC 3-0 Man City April 10th 2018 Man City 1-2 LFC Champions League Quarter Final

It’s been big business for several decades now, where the difference a single point makes can cost a club millions, cost a manager his job, or deny a player the medal he’s striven years for. Or deny someone who’s followed and supported their team the chance to see them champions before they pass on. Agreed it’s not life or death, but as Shankly said, to some it’s much more important than that.

http://www.skysports.com/share/12974640 Club has issued a statement tonight.

In the position officials find themselves in, they shouldn’t do or say anything that could be construed as them being biased or open to corruption against clubs in the league they officiate in. Going to work for and being paid by a person or persons who own or fund a club in the league you work in is exactly the sort of thing you should avoid. Unless you think you are so far above criticism that doing that sort of thing doesn’t worry you in the slightest.

We have few “snide” players in our squad, who would deliberately go over the top in a tackle. Jota maybe, but even he tends to trip up or ankle tap rather than go studs in. We aren’t a dirty team and it’s sometimes exasperating against teams who are more cynical that when we get free kicks we just put the ball down and get on with things rather than make a fuss, which makes the officials job easier. But the number of times a tackling players boot ends up coming down on a players standing foot, who’s played the ball, has increased I believe and maybe it’s not a coincidence, but it doesn’t always result in a red card. Jones was unlucky in the fact his foot rolled over the ball but partially on to Bissouma’s shin, and when the referee was shown the image on the pitch side, it was stopped at the point where it looked like a straight over the top challenge, making it easy for him to red card Jones. Was it deliberately stopped to make it look worse than it was? Unfortunately, given the number of contentious decisions going against us recently, and certainly since the Mac Allister Red being overturned, it might be easy to think every decision is sinister. Had that been Bissouma on Jones, maybe we would have been looking for a red?

Thought Klopp did well in his interview on MOTD. Came across as reasonable and non-confrontational. Good that he commented on the performance being memorable, despite the result, and I hope he uses that to fire the players up, not that they should need it, going forwards. Especially when we play Spurs at Anfield, I want to see Richarlison and Maddison crying after that one. Saying he knows the officials don’t make mistakes deliberately could have been left out though. The “explanation” from PGMOL (Webb) is farcical and crooked.

Didn’t see much of the game today, unfortunately. Did see Jota booked first for something that was an accident, the slightest, unmeant touch, then again minutes later for being rash and, even though minimal contact was made at best, giving the referee the easiest of excuses to send him off. Silly, and disappointing, given Jones was already dismissed, but I didn’t see that one to be fair. Neither did I see the Diaz “goal” or the apparent farce of a performance from the officials in disallowing it. Didn’t see Klopp’s after match comments either, but what I have seen is, on here, sufficient ire and frustration from enough posters I’d regard as trustworthy, to believe that we were stitched up and yet almost, almost, still got a point that no other team would have been close to getting, and I include City in that. It’s getting too coincidental now though, isn’t it? Happening too many times we’re on the wrong end of shit. What to do about it though is a problem. I’ve pointed out in other posts that we can compile dossiers proving it’s not coincidence that we lose many decisive decisions, if the proof is there of course, but the issue is that once you start down the road of officially accusing the PGMOL, or the PL or whoever, you have to take it all the way or you’ll be forever the targets and you’ll get even more royally stitched up. But can this be allowed to continue? That’s for the Club to decide, all we can do is back the club whatever. As usual. For everything else, there’s Everton.

It’s very encouraging, the start we’ve had, and we’ve signed some terrific looking players, but we’ve won nowt yet. I’m sure that’s what Klopp will be impressing on the players. I’ve great faith that there will be further improvement in the way we play and with players we may sign, and as long as this squad isn’t allowed to age as the previous midfield did, then that’ll be cool. We still have to overcome the challenge of the petro-dollars but Klopp might see that as a cause worth fighting for so I could definitely see Klopp staying longer if this team develops further, I mean, why wouldn’t you?

Referees are human and subject to the same feelings and mistakes as the rest of us, but when you are being paid, apparently, £100k p.a. plus to know your job and carry it out efficiently and impartially, you are doing so to be able to separate the feelings and cut out the mistakes and if you can’t then, like any of us, you shouldn’t be doing the job or you should be sacked. The problem now is that nobody has a viable alternative to the current clutch of officials who are pretty much self regulating and self serving, if Dean’s comments are to be taken as read. There’ll always be the whiff of corruption where big money or influence is present, it’s a grubby part of human nature to be greedy and want more, but it’s still there nevertheless, so how could any set of officials be trusted to be independent and non-partisan? The governing bodies are similarly untrusted given their performances over recent years so can’t be relied upon to appoint arbitrators of the game who are straight. In essence, the game is fucked, unless you are mega-rich and even then, the biggest dick wins.

Goes about his work quietly and efficiently. Thought he did very well last night. Even the Brazil side of 1970 had its “water carriers” (Brito, Piazza, Everaldo, Clodoaldo) just players who did their jobs and let the “stars” get on with it. We’re not Brazil 70……..yet. Klopps working on it though.

These footballers wouldn’t know arduous if it jumped up and bit them on the arse.

Surely if the bald fraud wanted to fly from Newcastle to Manchester, Etihad could have sorted a plane out for him and his squad? It’s not like they’re short of planes and they are the main “sponsors” of City after all. Expect a team plane delivered to Manchester very soon, purely to keep City competitive of course in the face of all the exhausting travelling they have to do.

And we are relying on these cunts to oversee fair and equitable financial dealings to keep a level playing field between competing clubs. Just fuck off.

The only thing about Allison I could possibly have a criticism over is that I sometimes think he could take more responsibility in the six yard box. For such a big, athletic guy he should be winning more of the ball there than he does. But it’s not debatable that he’s the best in the Premier League, and probably in Europe. It’s a testament to him that he makes the job look easy a most of the time and therefore isn’t having to throw himself around like, say, Pickford does and because of that, he doesn’t get as noticed by others.

Very, very good today. Looks a proper player. Just keep clear of……….. no I won’t say it.

I think Mo was fed up playing in a side that was going nowhere last season. He looked and played at times as if he couldn’t be bothered. This season he’s seen the spark is back in the side, and it seems to have put the spark back into him. The new players are a definite upgrade and his efforts are being rewarded with like minded players (in their positions) making his efforts worthwhile and he’s obviously liking it. Very possible he can see silverware in the team before he moves on next summer.

How many fouls will McTominay commit before he’s booked I wonder.

Kudus looks decent, Benrahma played well when he came on, but, according to my WHU supporting mate, he’s too inconsistent, Antonio is a handful and Ward-Prowse is pretty good at dropping the ball into dangerous places, as Soucek’s goal proved last night, it looked right off the training ground. They’re only West Ham though. Perhaps we should just let them score from the kick off and get on with it. It’s worked so far.