Liverpool thread 2020/21

[denislawsbackheel]

No

 

[give it to gordon]

but Lee never pretended it wasnt a dive

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Are you saying you never saw Lee, dive for a penalty?

But VAR would have ruled all his out. Salah (and Mane) just dive with impunity as they get most of them but get no punishment on the odd occasion a penalty isn’t awarded. No risk but massive reward, so who can blame them, I suppose.
Perhaps West Ham should write a letter......

 

[King KdB of Belgium]

Dennis if memory serves me correctly, the season your thinking of. It was no more than 4.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Sick of these bastards picking up wins without van dijk, it really is about time they faced some tough games.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

I noticed the subtle distraction technique of shifting the spotlight onto Masuaka (?). Basically saying he was foolish and stupid for initiating contacting with Salah's boot. Concentrate on that for long enough and you don't have enough time or column space to talk about the diving, cheating Egyptian who has made this an integral part of his (and Liverpool's) game under Klopp. Time for a pundit with enough balls to call this out for what it is.

Think Souness did just that

 

[Mike Cledford]

All the old players on the field
They do the Scouse dance, don’t you know
If they’re just touched (oh whey oh)
They’re falling down like a domino
All the Norway men in Oslo
They get the plane to Liverpool
One Premier League (oh whey oh)
They follow the cult like a fool
Scouser types talk a load of tripe
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Dive like an Egyptian!

No

Nor did l but our old friend the media sowed and cultivated that myth.
There was hardly any football on tv in those days 50 years ago. People should looks at the clip at Newcastle - they won't even spot his name.
Propaganda even works on blues.

 

[mexico1970]

The point here is that VAR didn't rectify the obvious dives, giving credence to the opinion that the game is bent.

 

[Vienna_70]

Francis Lee was one of the first experts, when it came to penalty winning.
And , no I am not supporting Salahs previous dives, just pointing out to those who think Salah, Vardy, or Sterling invented penalty winning. It has been around forever.

That’s not true.

The season that Frannie scored a record number of penalties, only four were awarded for fouls on him.

Around that time, Italians were the biggest culprits.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

If it was one of our players it would be on repeat on Sky Sports news and discussed all week in the media to put pressure on the ref ahead of the game next weekend. As it's them it won't be.

On Sky yesterday was spit commentating, Dogleashes daughter presenting & Souness as pundit, all with Liverpool connections. It's the same for rags games. They both get treated completely differently in the media than everyone else. Look at the outcry after the Everton game. Anyone saying there is no agenda is blind.

They get treated differently by refs & VAR too. One of the commentators on the rags game a few weeks ago said with glee how the rags had a PL record number of pens last season.