coachpotato

They’ll pay for it to go away.

Thiago to Saudi to offset any fee?

If a sending off negatively affects the game, and Webb doesn’t want that to happen, then surely his referees should be instructed to send no more players off this or any other season. What a pompous, self important twat he is. I’m surprised the authorities don’t take that and dismiss him straight away. Well I’m not surprised really, fucking anything goes with the shit shower running the game currently. FIFA though, they should be made aware and ask for an explanation.

I’ve felt we need to be nastier for some time now, but unfortunately, the PGMOL will have a field day if our players start being more physical than they currently are. Taylor did a great job last weekend of penalising almost every challenge of ours that was 50-50, it broke our play up and had the players on edge in case they were booked. Opposition players also know that if they throw themselves over against us, they’ll get free kicks or better.

Understand completely what you’re saying, it annoys me that professional footballers, on the money they are on, can be labelled one-footed. It’s like cutting your toolbox in two and only using half your toolkit. The issue with Robbo is that he’s too long in the tooth now to make any significant changes to his game. He won’t be improving his right foot too much I think.

Knew how to dive though, one of the best, role model for Grealish, Gordon, Sterling et al.

I suppose they have to be equally as shit every week so as to not attract attention. Fortunately for them, they don’t find this difficult.

I think so too. There’s no doubting he never tries less than 100%, can show moments of real class too, however, he has a lack of physicality for midfield and although his legs go at 100 mph, he doesn’t seem to cover the ground very quickly. Messi runs in a similar fashion but is obviously a chasm ahead on skill, Harvey has the one big benefit of being young and there’s a chance he can improve to make more of his skills and learn more about how to overcome his weaknesses. I think that’s how Klopp looks at him and will try to evolve him. Let’s face it, he’s much more effective than some of the dross we’ve had over recent seasons.

Quite unbelievable and yet expected that after being screwed over with possibly the worst decision in the relatively short history of VAR, it somehow ends up being our fault and pretty much every media hack and pundit unite in calling out Klopp for being unreasonable for demanding a replay, when he did nothing of the sort. It feels like it’s being organised given the pretty unanimous way that opinion was aired, obviously we’ve hit nerves with the response. We are being marginalised steadily but surely, fucked on the pitch and off it, and it’s frustrating that our owners aren’t seemingly doing anything to defend us, or if they are, it’s happening on the quiet. I don’t know how we get a win out of this, seemingly untouchable bodies like the PGMOL have an agenda that at best, is just cunts like Webb getting his own back, but at worst, is paid for corruption, and nobody is prepared to call it out, preferring to keep on the gravy train regardless of who suffers in the process. When he leaves us eventually, I hope Klopp blows the gaff on the whole stinking cabal.

Speed, or the lack of it, was at the root of today’s result. We played like it was a preseason game against Union SG on Thursday, and we carried the same tempo into todays game for large parts of it. Every other team will be happy us taking the extra touch, or the pass backwards, or the side to side between the defenders because they get the chance to regroup and set themselves up defensively against us. We have to force the pace more, by committing them to come out at us, by going on the front foot rather than sitting back with the ball. Last season Matip often broke the opposition setup by taking the ball forwards until someone broke ranks and went to tackle him, that then created space, it’s something Hansen and Lawrenson were very good at too. That doesn’t explain away the stupidly inept pass that Virgil gave Mac Allister for the first goal, I hope he got a shellacking for that off Klopp, Captain or not.

Kovacic > Fernandinho Absolutely no doubt now that there’s corruption where the PGMOL and oil clubs are involved.

Rooney has left DC United by mutual consent. Wonder where he’s going now? Should Ten Hag be worried?

They’re playing Liverpool, they’ll be giving 110%, as every team does against us. I’m nervous that Taylor will be looking to book ours as early as he can so as to make us think twice about any 50-50 challenges. Imagine there’ll be a fair few simulations from the Brighton players, they’ll be aware that officials won’t be wanting to do us any favours after us causing them embarrassment last week.

Fuck all changes then. Klopp is the new Benitez (Facts!), media twist anything said to suit their narrative, this’ll be next weeks chip paper. But it won’t be forgotten about by the PGMOL I assure you. The likes of Webb and his cronies are not likely to forgive and forget.

Wasn’t it Bissouma who went down like a sack of shit last week when Jota hardly touched him for the sending off? Commentators bigging up Maddison now, most number of assists apparently so far this season, he’s still an arrogant, Grealish-lite prick who’s not half as good as he thinks he is.

Just win. And don’t give Taylor any excuses to go to his pocket.

Watching the game it reminded me of a pre-season run out. Players looking like they were building up their fitness without overstretching themselves. Gravenberch played well, given the opposition, and looked like he was enjoying himself, his after game interview showed he’s happy to be here and enjoying life. The win was what mattered and we got that, so, job done, move on, get Brighton beaten then prepare for the shite on the 21st. Just hope we get all the players back fit from their national duties.

We’ll play much better and lose. Well, we did last Saturday. All about the result and getting the points on the board. I thought Owen called it when he said we’ll be sharper and more concentrated against better opposition. While that’s true, we really need to be more ruthless against poorer opposition. Next.

Jota has been next to useless. He’ll probably score.

These have a goal in them. We need to be quicker.

They’re a refreshing change for TNT/SKY, from the usual six or so regulars who seem to be in Europe year in, year out. Also, they have an English manager, the only team in the top 7 who do have and this is a good enough reason for them to go OTT over a decent but unspectacular win over a side of “cheese eating surrender monkeys”. The knuckledraggers will be in their element tonight.

Should the game get replayed (it won’t) then Spurs will get penalties and we’ll get sending offs. These are so brazen, and they’d be backed 100% by the media, that it’d be a waste of time. The way forward is to remove the PGMOL from involvement and get replacements in who are unbiased and without agendas, if that’s possible.

Having heard the audio now, I can safely say the whole episode defies belief. It is so bad, it actually goes past incompetence, it actually does border on anti LFC bias. England or whoever, says that it can’t be brought back because the game has restarted, so he knew the rules. As has been pointed out, he sounded nonplussed, pretty much in control of his emotions, almost clinical in his judgement. There we’re more than enough indications the goal had been ruled offside on the pitch, yet the call was made to carry on. So we’re his actions done so quickly so as to be able to get the game restarted, and the goal chalked off therefore, even though he knew that Diaz had scored a perfectly good goal? Then the TV companies are told to not highlight it at half time?? It stinks to high heaven. The only thing to placate me over this is for the whole body of PGMOL officials to be removed from VAR altogether, and a third party “overseeing” body be brought in with as little bias or agenda as is possible. Dean showed they run the thing to suit themselves, this has emphasised they don’t know what the fuck they are doing with it. Get them to fuck out of it.

Isn’t every cunt?

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.