Liverpool had no choice but to have two players sent off and five others - including one coach - booked against Spurs. They were 'backed into a corner'.
Liverpool had no choice but to have two players sent off and five others – including one coach – booked against Spurs. They were ‘backed into a corner’.is disappointingly fairly reasonable when it comes to its coverage of VAR’s Big Day Out at Tottenham on Saturday. They generally get the balance just right between righteous indignation and quiet but ultimately futile anger.. All it took was one incorrectly disallowed goal, two debatable red cards and a stoppage-time own goal to put them down.
There is sympathy for Liverpool in the circumstances but also what happened does not just excuse everything they did thereafter. The Jones red and the first yellow for Diogo Jota were certainly harsh yet that leaves six other cards that were issued to Liverpool and cannot simply be explained away as them being ‘backed into such a corner in the first place’ by one dodgy red and offside call.
It would have been one thing if Diaz scored in the last minute and it was ruled out. But literally every other event in that sequence occurred after the Diaz goal. So to suggest the mistake led to a fan losing his bet requires us to believe the game would have played out the exact same way regardless, which is obviously utter nonsense.
So no, there was no fan who missed out on a payout because of that one mistake. There is plenty of legitimate, justifiable anger surrounding VAR and referee decisions currently, without having to pretend that is part of it.‘Gary Neville furiously hits back after slamming Liverpool’s mistake on VAR “f*** up”‘ is a whole chunk of words masquerading as aheadline. It requires a couple of reads back just to make complete sense of it, as is the way nowadays.
Good managers are generally also lucky managers and yet anyone who thinks Ange Postecoglou’s impressive start to life as Tottenham Hotspur head coach has been propelled by good fortune might want to think again.
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