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I’ll say this clearly for the simpletons at the back:
If you’re going to sing a song about victimhood with the words “always” & “never” you don’t get to claim that it has nothing to do with the most famous example of when Liverpool supporters were victims & it wasn’t their fault
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A) Not entirely sure what’s wrong with someone taking a picture before the match has even kicked off. B) Looks like an old(ish) guy, might have dreamt of going to Anfield for years. C) How did you take the picture of him, with your mind? D) Piss off.
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We’ve won the League Cup. We’ve won the FA Cup. We’re in the Champions League final and have pushed a sportswashing entity all the way to the final day in the Premier League. Whatever happens on Sunday & next Saturday, that is incredible.
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Got married on Saturday. Mates of mine sang You’ll Never Walk Alone as we entered the marquee for the wedding breakfast. An Evertonian in attendance, who must be in his mid-60s, got up and walked out until it was over. Their bitterness truly is remarkable. 🍋
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I’ll explain this slowly for the people at the back: funding your purchases by selling your best players to buy other top players isn’t the same as funding your purchases through oil money & adding amazing players to amazing players, keeping them ALL.
£75m on VVD, £70m on Alisson, £40m on Fabinho, £35m on Mane, £30m on Firminho, £42m on Salah, £55m on Keita. The media will still try to convince you all that Liverpool's top season is all down to Klopp. They've spent clever and big like City and now getting the rewards. Simple.
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By the way, if Liverpool had had the season Manchester City have had, the press would be calling for Klopp's head.
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I’m so sick of shit like this, I really am. Who gives a flying fuck? Seriously, who cares? As if you take a photo of two people who have just gone the match to enjoy the Reds & try to humiliate them online. It’s utterly pathetic. Rather have a pint with them than this twat.
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Jordan Henderson. European Cup winning captain. Stick that in your pipe & smoke it.
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Team that were awarded a dodgy penalty yesterday:
-Manchester City
-Chelsea
Teams that were not awarded a dodgy penalty yesterday:
-Liverpool
Teams that everyone is talking about today as though they were awarded a dodgy penalty:
-Liverpool
🤷♂️
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Gary Neville should not be allowed to commentate on Liverpool matches. Trying to suggest that was a dive is just laughable. He has no objectivity at all.
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“Harry Kane is not that sort of player,” says Jamie Redknapp about Harry Kane, who is exactly that sort of player.
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We could go on to win the quadruple & that fall onto the ball from Ali will still be my highlight of the season.
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At some point, by the way, the rest of the teams in the Premier League are going to have to start caring about City’s financial doping. At the moment, no one cares coz it’s only us going up against them. Eventually, though, the top-flight will become like Germany etc.
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Few will want to hear it, but I completely disagree with the throwing of the flare into the Chelsea fans. And their fans saying so on here are right: we’d be going mental if they’d done it to our fans at Stamford Bridge. Dangerous & moronic.
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Regular reminder that before Alex Ferguson arrived, United had the same number of major trophies as Aston Villa. What we’re seeing now isn’t them in a drought, it’s them returning to their norm.
I get it , you’re full of yourselves but he can turn down City for United because he likes them more and still want to leave this summer. He left before but still loved the club . Enjoy Saturday night and your short period of success 👍
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Man City wouldn’t be dropping points at home to Crystal Palace.
Apart from when they lost to them last season.
And drew with them in 19-20.
And lost to them in 18-19.
Other than those times, Man City wouldn’t be dropping points at home to Crystal Palace.
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Is it coz he was onside? I bet it was coz he was onside.
What an absolutely crackers headline.
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Every time I see clips from this show, I feel a bit sad about the fact that we *could* have this but broadcasters instead opt for Gary Neville blaming everything on the Glazers or Jermaine Jenas not understanding what feet are.
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Nothing says karma quite like a player’s country being knocked out of an international tournament a decade after he celebrated during a club game for a team he stopped playing for eight years ago.
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If you’re annoyed about this, imagine we’d signed him from Real Madrid for £30 million instead of it being a new contract. That’ll calm you down until you mum gets in to make your dinner.
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This sort of thing is just really funny. It’s only been two weeks since a Liverpool player was kicked in the chest in the box & everyone fell over themselves to say it wasn’t a penalty, but sure, refs give us everything.
Put a Liverpool shirt on DCL there and VAR wouldn’t have been needed because the referee would have choked himself rushing that whistle into his mouth.
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One thing that is one in the eye for all of the sexists: I can barely remember a controversial offside in our games when Sian Massey-Ellis runs the line. Just quietly really good at her job.
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Needs to be clamped out this Harry Kane move. Really dangerous.
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Meanwhile, on today’s episode of what the hell is wrong with the officiating in this country….
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Five Premier League teams entered the Champions League this season. Only one made it to the final. Now other fans are searching Twitter to laugh at
#LFC
supporters for having the temerity to believe that we could win it. I’m absolutely fine with the direction my club’s going in.
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“Don’t give the goal even though the VAR said it was one”
“Send Jota off for not touching anyone twice”
“Kidnap one the players’ parents”
“Don’t give a penalty for Odergaard playing basketball”
“Don’t give a penalty for Doku kungfu kicking someone in the box”
“Stop Gakpo Anthony”
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Fair play to Man City. No idea how they’ve managed to grind out those results given that Guardiola has only spent a billion pounds to scrape his squad together. A footballing fairytale.
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Presumably VAR didn’t have a camera that could show this kick from Silva.
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Just so everyone knows, the ref blowing up with Grealish through on goal & three men near him is NOT the same as the VAR confirming a goal is onside but it not being awarded. Not even in the same ball park. Only one team has been cheated out of a legitimate goal this season.
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Jordan Henderson will know how a lot of people feel about him, yet he goes out and fronts the press after a World Cup defeat. My fucking captain.
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Genuinely can’t get over Mo Salah being wrestled to the ground in front of the assistant & him giving Forest a throw. There are people that genuinely think he’s a diver when he gets assaulted on a weekly basis and gets nothing.
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A friend said this to me about Manchester City: “They’re Very Donald Trump in their approach; "I didn't do it, and if I did it wasn't illegal, and if it was it was too long ago to do anything about it. Oh, and I'm going to sue you for holding me to account." Nailed it.
Manchester City are Premier League champions for the fifth time in six years. But questions remain about how the club does business. 6 mins on the reasons why. Produced by Michael Cox, Floyd Cush, Mary Fuller.
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Unfortunately we’ve lost the title to the better team.
By which I mean the team that is owned by a country, has repeatedly broken FFP rules, paid people money off the books and is being used to sportswash the reputation of a murderous regime.
Same thing.
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Genuinely miraculous that
#LFC
went toe-to-toe with City once, never mind twice. That we won the league during the sports-washing era will be seen as one of the club’s greatest accomplishments in years to come.
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In my opinion, it is irresponsible for serious news publications to talk about this as if it’s fact whilst offering no commentary on how the club has been able to achieve such tremendous revenue. Like talking about Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France wins & not mentioning the doping
Manchester City have posted a Premier League record revenue for the 2022-23 financial year 😮 💰
#BBCFootball
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Genuinely mental that a racist throwing a banana onto the pitch in front of a black player in 2018 caused less controversy than a manager celebrating a goal. Seriously don’t think enough’s being said about it. Absolutely ludicrous.
"I apologise if I have offended anyone from both clubs, especially Tottenham. It was a mad thing I did and I never meant to offend anyone in any way. I never meant anything by it."
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I liked the bit at the end where Mo Salah was just grabbed and thrown to the floor & nothing was given. Refereeing at its finest.
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Loads RTing this today, and it is a dreadful opinion, but it lacks the context of Ronan’s most recent tweets owning his mistake & saying his life would be easier if he just deleted it but that wouldn’t be honest. If only everyone was so truthful about their stupid tweets on here!
Virgil van Dijk is extremely overrated. Fee is astronomical at £75m. Could have got a Lewis Dunk for 1/10th of the price to probably do a similar job.
#LFC
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One thing:
Trent’s handball was a pen.
Karius’s tackle was a pen.
The push on Mané was a pen.
The “handball” by Milner wasn’t a pen.
The “handball” by Karius wasn’t a pen.
The tackle on Mané was a red.
We can stick the idea that Roma were “unlucky” in the bin.
#LFC
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Until VAR becomes about getting the right decision rather than about protecting the match referee, officiating in this country will not improve.
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Lovren is asked if Liverpool can win the Champions League and says yes. Fans go mental. Intrigued to know what he should’ve said. “No mate, we’re shit”. I’m glad they believe they can do it. There’s no point trying if they don’t. Bored of players being criticised for *everything*
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Most of the criticism of FSG should actually be aimed at the Premier League for allowing sportswashing to normalise excess spending.
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I see we’re all blaming Liverpool for draws against United at Old Trafford & Everton at Goodison Park, two results that would be great in any other season. A likely 97 points. Get to fuck criticising the players or the manager. 97 points. Behave yourselves.
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Henderson does this every single match. People who hate him just ignore it. If one goes out of play, though, there’s memes AOTS.
‘Jordan Henderson can only pass 5 yard passes sideways and backwards’
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Think people’s opinions of Darwin tonight will tell you a lot. If they think he was shit, they haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about. Really impressive first-half, did everything but score. Understandably tired in the second. Really like what I saw.
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Yesterday morning he was peddling this. Today, he's acting as if he knew Gakpo to
#LFC
was on the cards all along. This transfer should be the death of these absolute chancers, but people are desperate to believe what they want to so he'll keep getting more and more followers.
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Marcus Alonso was doing 70mph in a 30mph zone when over the drink-drive limit. He crashed into a wall and a 22-year-old woman died.
Jonathon Pearce says he’s “not everyone’s cup of tea.”
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Gary Neville chatting absolute wham there. If the assistant had elbowed Fernandes he’d want him banned for life. They’re such hypocritical twats, the lot of them.
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THE dullest argument in
#LFC
discourse. I’ve sat next to SO MANY Scousers who turn up late, leave early & do nothing but moan for 90 minutes. I’ve sat by out of towners who throw themselves into it. But it’s easy to just blame it on “non-locals”. Nonsense.
Atmosphere’s shite not just because of tourists, it’s to do with all non locals taking over period. The majority is not scouse anymore, they don’t know words, they don’t get the scouse humour. Most local lads can’t take their kid’s the game anymore, on it’s fuckin ass
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Coz of the cheating, would be my guess.
Manchester City are closing in on sporting immortality – so why is everyone so indifferent?
✍️
@oliverbrown_tel
#TelegraphFootball
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#UCLfinal
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We’re all Leverkusen coz of Xabi, I imagine, but Bayern not winning the title for the first time in a million years when Kane signs for them would be objectively very funny.
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If you want proof of what an atrocious ref Anthony Taylor is, just look at what Guardiola got away with, including running onto the pitch, and then Klopp gets sent off. Not saying Klopp didn’t deserve to get sent for screaming in the assistant’s face, but why wasn’t Guardiola?
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I’ll be heart-broken if this happens. I can’t even begin to imagine how LGBTQ+ fans, for whom Jordan Henderson has been a terrific role model, would feel. So terribly depressing.
🚨 Jordan Henderson leaning towards accepting life-changing Al Ettifaq offer. 33yo set to decide imminently. Would quadruple Liverpool wages. Gerrard driving pursuit. If Henderson approves, clubs will immediately hold talks on deal
@TheAthleticFC
#LFC
#SPL
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There is nothing more Everton than being pleased they’ve got a manager who shouted this at Klopp in a match said manager lost 5-3.
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“I wonder what Gareth Southgate makes of this new role for Trent Alexander-Arnold?”
The man is as basic as they come. There is no way he even understands it.
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“Bow to pressure.”
The Times know exactly what they’re doing with that framing. Feeds right into the “Liverpool bad” attitude so many football fans have. I’m so sick of it all.
🔺 UPDATE: The body in charge of Premier League referees is set to bow to pressure from Liverpool and release the audio of discussions between the match officials who wrongly disallowed Luis Díaz’s goal against Tottenham
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“For no reason”
More 12.30 kick-offs than any other team since 19-20. Literally double the amount away from home than at Anfield.
Commentator knows full well he’s going to get a reaction & gets one. Ferguson, of course, famously never got spiky with the press.
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My instinct on Caicedo is that he doesn’t pass J��rgen’s no dickheads rule.
🚨 Negotiations between Brighton and Chelsea for Moisés Caicedo are understood to have reached an impasse and have stalled.
[
@JacobSteinberg
] 🥇
#bhafc
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I've tried to put into words my feelings on the betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community, that he had been an ally for, by Jordan Henderson. Even if he stays now, he'll have lost a huge amount of respect from many, all to make a rich man a little bit richer. More:
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14 points behind City last January. Lost the title by one. But sure, there’s no way we can get back 4 points when we still have to play them twice.
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It's only just over a month since Mike Dean admitted he didn't send Anthony Taylor to the monitor because he was a mate who he didn't want to get extra grief, but dare to suggest that there might be something dodgy going on with referees & you're made out to be a crank.
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There are few things in football as gratifying as seeing Harry Kane celebrate a goal that is then disallowed.
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I think Mo Salah is the best player in the world. I think
#LFC
should recompense him accordingly. But I also think this fella is a bad, bad bellend & if the club doesn’t want to deal with him I’d understand.
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This narrative is bullshit. He’s got his hand on Alisson’s arm. The ball goes into his hands then comes loose because he can’t hold it. Of course the goal was rightly disallowed & it’s mental to see former pros suggest otherwise.
"Liverpool and Alisson are extremely lucky" 😬
@Carra23
,
@DanielSturridge
and
@MicahRichards
discuss the disallowed Ruben Dias goal ✖️
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I have found what is easily my favourite anti-Henderson tweet so far. Glorious.
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The more I see of Ryan Gravenberch, the more I judge Thomas Tuchel and Julian Nagelsmann.
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The whole point of the head injury rule is to protect players from something serious. If players are found to be faking it in order to win free-kicks, waste time or disrupt the other side’s rhythm, as Arsenal did repeatedly yesterday, retrospective bans should be issued.
Martinelli blatant cheating. Doesn’t get touched but stays down holding his head, this needs punishing as it’s wrecking the game. Refs told to stop the game due to head injuries is fair enough but cut this out.
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Wild how Darren England was paid to officiate a game in the United Arab Emirates, the country that de facto owns Manchester City, just 48 hours before making repeated VAR errors that benefited Manchester City. He did it with Howard Webb’s blessing too. Nothing to see here.
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Weird how
#MOTD
didn't bother to show the Palace manager say their first goal shouldn't have stood because it was a push & instead just had Shearer, who thought Calvert-Lewin was fouled when Lovren breathed near him, say it was soft. It's pathetic.
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I don’t really watch Match Of The Day anymore and tonight has reminded me why. They didn’t show a single one of the ridiculous challenges from Burnley & then said afterwards “we watched the game, didn’t see anything Klopp was talking about.” You didn’t watch the game, you morons.
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It’s so difficult to put a finger on why Manchester’s Paul Tierney has made so many generous decisions to Manchester United.
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Chris Kamara literally doesn’t even know whether a goal has been scored and it’s “hilarious bantz” for years. A woman struggles with the pronunciation of a tricky name during otherwise excellent coverage & she’s a “chick” who is a “shambles”.
Embarrassing.
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When van Dijk got his ban I said he was right to because of his behaviour but whether it was fair would depend on what happened when someone else did it. Now we know. The FA/PGMOL once again being ludicrously inconsistent.
Erling Haaland has escaped disciplinary sanction for his furious tirade and social media post at referee Simon Hooper, but Manchester City have been charged for the way their players, including Haaland, surrounded the match official
#TelegraphFootball
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#ManCity
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Think this epitomises Jordan Henderson. Essentially been accused of racism, but doesn’t want to argue against the accusations for fear that it would make it harder for other players to come forward. Would run through brick walls for him.
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Nothing sums up the brainlessness of the FSGOUT crew quite like this reply.
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“De Bruyne is a cheat code”
Probably not as much as the actual cheating.
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If 👏you👏sell👏players👏to👏fund👏transfers👏it’s👏not👏the👏same👏as👏having👏unlimited👏funds👏and👏inventing👏fake👏companies👏to👏artificially👏inflate👏your👏income👏
This is really bizarre. He’s acting like Liverpool have been scraping by of late. Just the £85m spent on Darwin Nunez this summer.
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Personally, I’m fine with Henderson having a go at Alisson if he thought he should’ve shouted to Matip. He’s the captain, it’s his job. He also turned around & told Matip he did shout. I’d be far more annoyed if the captain was a shrinking violet. Everyone hates him though so 🤷♂️
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The more you look at Man City's squad, the more you realise how ridiculous what we did last season actually was. Nevermind the fact we went toe-to-toe with them the season before, too.
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I can’t believe how much Man United signing a player who is nearly 37 & they’re paying £500,00 a week after tax has triggered the FSGOUT weirdos.
Speaking very much for myself, I do not want my football club being run like that.
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There is nothing in football that boggles my mind as much as people thinking Jordan Henderson isn’t a very, very good footballer.
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I understand why pundits / commentators don’t repeatedly mention City’s cheating, even though I think they should, but I don’t understand why they constantly fawn over them & act like it’s just amazing coaching. Would be like raving about Lance Arstrong’s gorgeous calves.
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Part of the reason I think refereeing is at an all-time low is that this sort of thing keeps happening, they keep issuing apologies but then nothing changes. If a referee watching on a monitor in slow motion think this is a pen, they shouldn’t be employed.
This was given as a penalty for Fulham against Wolves this evening - after Var had checked it about a million times. Genuinely unbelievable.
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I see “Doku won the ball” has become fact in all of the discourse about yesterday, even though he didn’t win the ball.
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Let’s get this over with. If someone watches Henderson last night & still thinks he’s a poor player then they just don’t like him and there’s no point trying to persuade them otherwise. They’re absolute morons who don’t understand football. I honestly believe that.
An impressive nights work for
@JHenderson
in an
@England
shirt
World Cup highlights LIVE on ＠ITV now
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This nonsense properly winds me up. Firstly, those of us against sportswashing *have* been critical of Fabinho & Firmino, as well as Gerrard & Fowler. Secondly, Henderson is getting more criticism because of his outright betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community. It’s not complicated.
Roberto Firmino and Fabinho avoid the condemnation reserved for Henderson after favouring moves to Saudi, for one reason or another.
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If you’re sat next to someone shining a laser in the goalkeeper’s eyes, I reckon you should be allowed to chin them.
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One of the weirdest things around the whole Super League issue is this suggestion that the teams concerned tried to leave the Premier League. They absolutely didn’t. It was supposed to replace the Champions League. No idea why people are confused by that.
'When you consider 6 clubs tried to leave the PL and there was no sanction it doesn't feel right.'
Jamie Carragher shares his views on Everton's 10-point deduction 💬
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City literally claimed they won a quadruple because of the Community Shield, so they really don’t get to claim it’s a friendly.
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Many people ask why "Scouse not English" is a thing and wonder why most Liverpool supporters don't care about England. "Scouse not English" isn't about geography, it's about mentality. Today is showing that the Venn diagram of England fan songs & EDL songs is a perfect circle.
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The way in which all of these people I used to respect have completely sold their souls for money they don’t need is so very depressing.
🚨Steven Gerrard:
“I think when the GOAT, as we call him, arrived in January, it was a huge deal, and he still has a lot to offer in football. After the arrival of Cristiano the popularity of the league increased & all the big players moved to Saudi.”
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City dropped points to Crystal Palace, Leicester City & Newcastle. Anyone throwing in the towel because they’ve beaten a really poor Chelsea side and thinks they’ll never lose again needs to have a word with themselves.
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I'm really worried that Spurs & United might sack their managers before we play them.
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I adored Henderson. He should’ve left
#LFC
as a conquering hero, carried through the streets of Anfield. Instead, he’s snuck out the back door, having betrayed the people he purported to represent. It will never not be an incredibly sad goodbye.
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Sports people *can* put integrity above sporting success. It’s just that loads choose not to.
Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk, on refusing to play in Saudi Arabia:
'In a few days, I'll lose two world titles, one after another. Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, wear abaya, be accompanied by a man so I can get out of the hotel"
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If Jordan Henderson played the half of football Emre Can just has there would be people calling for his head on a spike.
#LFC
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