With Liverpool considering their options, the Mailbox suggests how the Reds should seek justice for Saturday’s officiating at Spurs. Or they could stop whining about corruption and grow up…I’ve been thinking about this and the only fair way to correct these things is in the return game you reverse it.
This issue goes beyond injustice to Liverpool. Justice must not only be done but be seen to be done to protect the integrity of the Premier League from VAR and referee wilfully concealing the known fact of the goal thereby bringing the League into disrepute – and a replay is the only adequate remedy to address this.Can Liverpool fans please take a breath and stop using words like corruption? Yes it’s horrible to lose like that. Yes the offside decision was awful. But that’s really it.
3. The only other legitimate gripe is the foul called on Salah in the second half. Fair, it was a soft call. I’m not actually really going to talk about the decisions themselves, but more of the deep and destructive contagion that state owned clubs bring into the game. Before I begin this point, I want to highlight that I do not think there is corruption involved, nor do I think there is anything but incompetence or unconscious bias in play, but my point is to do with the lack of ability for our referees to now be seen to be beyond a potential conflict of interest.
In a nutshell, nations owning clubs is utterly wrong and leads to all of this. As this will never change, referees should not be working in these same states if they wish to have continued employment in England as referees. The reputation of referring bodies as fair arbiters of the game and as above temptation or corruption depends on it.
I’ve been firmly against VAR since its introduction and believe in most cases it makes bad situations even worse. It has to be said though that it has had one definately unforeseen consequence and that is that the traditional ‘SkyFour’ clubs now have to put up with the same awful refereeing decisions that the rest of us have been suffering since 1992. And blimey don’t the fans cry about it.
– Bissouma’s hand in Robertson’s face Ref booked Bissouma. Right decision I think, red would have been harsh; and I have long been an adherent to the ‘cock-up beats conspiracy 99 times out of a hundred’, and the off side decision is clearly that. I just hope some of the more vitriolic contributors to this site, could maybe bear that in mind.