The Mailbox reacts to consecutive draws for Liverpool and Darwin Nunez’s nut. Also: plenty more on Man Utd, Graeme Souness, and Arsenal…
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Reds’ ref justice
Refereeing is a tough job and I do sympathise over the tricky calls and even the mistakes but what Tierney does when he refs Liverpool isn’t that. Defenders can put two arms around our attackers with no fouls ever given, keepers can time waste for an hour or more and not even get a booking until it’s too late to affect their behaviour. Every time their players fake injury he loves to blow the whistle but when we could have the advantage of a dead ball near the box he plays an advantage that he seems to think we gain with the ball now at the half way line. All this happened tonight but it happens every single time he refs us. Everyone knows his brother is a Man City season ticket holder, can’t he just be taken off our games? Mike Dean wasn’t allowed to ref us for years because he lived on the Wirral for goodness sake!
Fair play to Palace, they came and took their chance. Our setup is obviously such that we will give away those chances and most of the time even a top striker isn’t certain to score but we do recently have a habit of making life tough. To concede first 6 games in a row screams a major issue which needs addressing now. Phillips was a bit awful and he was never a man who should be facing Zaha with a high line. That doesn’t excuse the previous 5 league games where he wasn’t starting.
Ultimately the task was made worse by Darwin’s stupidity. Deserves his three match ban for being totally brain dead. Then demonstrates how dumb he is by refusing to leave the pitch when we are losing and need to get on with the game. Needs a proper kick up the ass from the team until he figures out how to control his temper. Also had two huge moments and shat the bed both times so needs to wind his neck in and do the business before he thinks nobody is allowed to get physical with him.
Finally, where is the needle in this Liverpool side? Normally we can rely on Robertson to sh*t house a bit but the rest of the lads were far too nice today. First time we ever acted up a bit was Tsimikas to win a free kick on the edge of the box but it was too little too late. Need to up the level of dickheadedness if we are going to get something from tight games. Maybe that was partly why we didn’t win a single game against the top 4 last season?
Minty,…
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