Fuck him. He tried the psych game, couldn’t save a shot, and couldn’t take one. He deserves every part of that failure.Wow poor Kepa.
Fuck him. He tried the psych game, couldn’t save a shot, and couldn’t take one. He deserves every part of that failure.Wow poor Kepa.
The last 30 minutes should have given all the evidence requiredGlad my team won but I still hate penalties deciding things like a Cup Final. I get you can’t play forever.
Penalties are a crap shoot.Fuck him. He tried the psych game, couldn’t save a shot, and couldn’t take one. He deserves every part of that failure.
If he had gone in and done his job without the histrionics with the same result, I’d pity him. Instead he walked out to try to get in every player’s head, had to be ordered back to his line every time, and couldn’t back his smack. No sympathy.Penalties are a crap shoot.
Rarely does one player own a defeat as entirely. Didn't play the whole game, come in for this one purpose. Fail 11 straight times then fail doing the thing you're not even supposed to do. That's rough.
Somebody’s got to do it. Most of the Liverpool Old Boys are club cheerleaders … Graham Souness has been known to knock them at times too.What is Steve Nicol’s deal, for a former player he’s so negative on Liverpool.
There's always someone that does it. I remember Josemi, who contributed about as much to the 2004-05 Liverpool team as I did, being front and center next to Gerrard for the Champions League trophy lift.Tsimikas being front and center for these celebrations despite not playing a minute this game is very funny
Cheerleaders are annoying agreed, but Nicol never seems to say anything positive about Liverpool.Somebody’s got to do it. Most of the Liverpool Old Boys are club cheerleaders … Graham Souness has been known to knock them at times too.
At least he’s consistent. Maybe he got stiffed in a contract dispute or something. Was he one of the Spice Boys?Cheerleaders are annoying agreed, but Nicol never seems to say anything positive about Liverpool.
To his credit he played a lot of, if not most of the minutes that got them to the final.Tsimikas being front and center for these celebrations despite not playing a minute this game is very funny
Oh absolutely he deserves it. It was just funny seeing him attached to VVD and Henderson who obviously got a ton of screen timeTo his credit he played a lot of, if not most of the minutes that got them to the final.
Yeah, and it's his first trophy with the club, as he joined the year after the title win.To his credit he played a lot of, if not most of the minutes that got them to the final.
The adage usually is that the keeper can only be the hero in a shootout, that if he loses nobody blames him because penalties are such a lottery. But when you come in specifically for the penalties, replacing a keeper that was MOTM for your side, go 0-11 in saves (including one from the opposing keeper), and then put your kick into Row Z to lose, it's tough not to get some grief.I can't fathom, still, the irony of bringing on a PK stopping specialist who not onlu goes 0-fer the shootout, but also blazes one over the bar in such spectacular fashion....high comedy
this is the real head scratcherPGMOL managing director Mike Riley made personal telephone calls to both Everton chairman Bill Kenwright and manager Frank Lampard to apologise following the decision by VAR not to award the club a penalty in Saturday's game against Manchester City
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11671/12554608/mike-riley-personally-apologises-to-evertons-bill-kenwright-and-frank-lampard-for-man-city-handball-decision-vs-everton#:~:text=PGMOL managing director Mike Riley made personal telephone calls to,Saturday's game against Manchester City.Dermot Gallagher told Ref Watch that the officials got it wrong, saying: "It is a penalty, no doubt. I think the VAR inspected it for too long. There are a couple of angles that may have affected the decision."
I agree that both of those decisions were ridiculous. I'm not yet willing to go into conspiracy theory mode but I still can't really wrap my head around the handball decision in particular.I'm almost okay with the VVD call because it's debatable. I don't think it meets the "clear and obvious" threshold, but I can see both sides. I'm fine with that.
There is no excuse for VAR's decision on Lukaku to be definitive. The tech isn't capable. More than that, I don't want that to be offside- it doesn't violate the spirit of the rule, it takes away an aspect of play that is absolutely thrilling, and is utterly arbitrary.
My understanding of Keita/Chalobah is that both players' feet were equally raised, both were focused on the ball, and you can make an argument for incidental contact. There's no world in which it isn't a card of some color, but I'm not going to feel hard done by if it's red.
This weekend's handball and the Kane tackle on Robertson were absolute, undebatable, and universally agreed-upon decisions that the same referee blew. I'm going to cross a line here and say that this isn't an accident. Officiating in realtime at pitch level is fucking difficult. You can name a few referees that did it well, and that number is probably a good comp for the GOAT debates we have for players- it's exceedingly hard to do. Kavanagh was sitting in a chair with monitors, replays, and angles that pitch officials 5 years ago would have dreamed to see. There is absolutely no excuse for getting this wrong- there's no interpretation, there's no debate, there's nothing. These are the most black and white, Refereeing 101 decisions, and he got them wrong. Something about that stinks and genuinely feels like there's more going on with this.
I watch Union Berlin every week, and I have only seen at most a couple of calls (maybe) that left me scratching my head. I can't think of one off the top of my head, so there hasn't been anything egregious. It's generally much faster than in the PL too.does Bundesliga have better VAR?