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"Highlights" of the game are up on YouTube....Mayos first goal is about 8 minutes in

Looks like he went for a goal

Definite point attempt that dropped short into the far corner.

"Dropped Short".......he was about 10 yards from goal when he pulled the trigger

It still dropped short.

He's over 6 foot and well built, if he was a slender 5'8 19 year old you might have a point. So in a word no.

Doesn't matter what size he is, and it shouldn't be used against him.  A foul is a foul.

[Correct call to disallow that 2nd goal as DeGea was fouled.]

United started off all right and then conceded a goal from yet another lapse in concentration on a set piece. Correct call to disallow that 2nd goal as DeGea was fouled.  United have probably missed their best chance of scoring with Pereira missing that sitter. I'd still be surprised if this game doesn't finish in a 2 or 3-0 defeat.

You're delusional.

De Gea shown up as a poor keeper again with that. Too easily put off the ball. It wasn't a foul. Goal should have stood.

Exactly. Didnt jump with his elbows up, eyes were always on the ball and made a genuine attempt to challenge for it. Disallowing that was a disgrace. Ah well, comfortable victory.

But its still a foul, just because your eyes are on the ball doesn't make it a fair tackle.  Its no different than two outfield players coming together, if you have your 'eyes on the ball' and go in for a slide tackle for example, collide with the opposition but don't make any contact with the ball then its a free kick.  Same logic in the De Gea incident.

No its not. Van dijk is entitled to challenge and De gea dropped it, hes useless under the high ball as everyone knows. The united teams reaction as the ball hit the net was a major factor in VAR bailing them out, again.

[Correct call to disallow that 2nd goal as DeGea was fouled.]

United started off all right and then conceded a goal from yet another lapse in concentration on a set piece. Correct call to disallow that 2nd goal as DeGea was fouled.  United have probably missed their best chance of scoring with Pereira missing that sitter. I'd still be surprised if this game doesn't finish in a 2 or 3-0 defeat.

You're delusional.

De Gea shown up as a poor keeper again with that. Too easily put off the ball. It wasn't a foul. Goal should have stood.

Exactly. Didnt jump with his elbows up, eyes were always on the ball and made a genuine attempt to challenge for it. Disallowing that was a disgrace. Ah well, comfortable victory.

[Correct call to disallow that 2nd goal as DeGea was fouled.]

United started off all right and then conceded a goal from yet another lapse in concentration on a set piece. Correct call to disallow that 2nd goal as DeGea was fouled.  United have probably missed their best chance of scoring with Pereira missing that sitter. I'd still be surprised if this game doesn't finish in a 2 or 3-0 defeat.

You're delusional.

[Everton would probably be in the top 6 only for VAR]

VAR is a complete joke

Must be the 5th or 6th time this season Everton have been screwed over by it

Headbutt someone and VAR ignores it

Everton are dung. Wont be beating for another 20 years.

Everton would probably be in the top 6 only for VAR

But yes, they generally are dung
But most teams in the PL are

Catch yourself on.

Maybe im getting old but the standard of lookers is on the decline.

The Sainaise one needs a reality check
The Saturdays sister seems to be putting on the Essex voice
The black girl (is this politically correct??) is the only one that is good looking and seems normal.
The twins look like the pair outta white chicks

Ill let someone else revies the lads

Agree with all that, her voice is annoying right enough. Quite a watery excuse from the blond fella for leaving, im sure he got a quare shock when he realised the backlash he got for being a trophy hunter. But yea not a great group so far, need another Maura type character in there to stir it up a bit

Bump

[Minamino coming in could trigger a sale of Salah or Mane?]

African Cup of Nations moved back to January and February next year. Big blow for Liverpool - Salah, Mane and Keita could be missing for up to 6 weeks.

Keita will probably be injured anyway!

Chance for the likes of Minamino though

It might actually trigger a sale of Mo/Sadio with the likes of Werner coming in in the summer

Minamino coming in could trigger a sale of Salah or Mane? Werner would have no impact on it as he's a striker.

No I meant they might cash in on one of Mo/Sadio to RM/Barca/FSG and use the money to buy Werner so they are not without two key front men for such an extended period. Klopp is a big fan of Werner and he is more versatile than just a striker even though its his most effective position. He can play across the front line

If you are actually saying Klopp would consider getting rid one of those altogether just for the reason they will be out for a maximum of six weeks then you don't know much about football. There's a chance of signing Werner in the summer anyway regardless to give Firmino a bit of competition.

It's not all to do with Klopp. You're right that this wouldn't make the club want to sell so "trigger" the sale was the wrong phrase. What I meant is that it would be a factor in any decisions. For example If RM came in for Mane at £150m and the player wanted to go, the club would be more likely to sell knowing they were not going to have him for six weeks that season anyway. If that money can be recycled into a younger player who will be in his prime for 5 years and not affected by AFCON then the club will consider it. No club stands still, Liverpool Will be planning for the post mo/sad/bobby period already and potentially losing key players mid season will impact on these decisions.

I get what you're saying but Liverpool would still tell RM where to go in that situation. I don't think a january AFCON next year would be a major factor in a sale because in 2018 we were missing Mo and Sadio to a January AFCON and we didnt miss them, still secured top 4 and got to a CL final that year. We're able to cope without key players even more so now as we've shown numerous times this season and i expect Liverpool to add even more strength in depth in the summer.

[Minamino coming in could trigger a sale of Salah or Mane?]

African Cup of Nations moved back to January and February next year. Big blow for Liverpool - Salah, Mane and Keita could be missing for up to 6 weeks.

Keita will probably be injured anyway!

Chance for the likes of Minamino though

It might actually trigger a sale of Mo/Sadio with the likes of Werner coming in in the summer

Minamino coming in could trigger a sale of Salah or Mane? Werner would have no impact on it as he's a striker.

No I meant they might cash in on one of Mo/Sadio to RM/Barca/FSG and use the money to buy Werner so they are not without two key front men for such an extended period. Klopp is a big fan of Werner and he is more versatile than just a striker even though its his most effective position. He can play across the front line

If you are actually saying Klopp would consider getting rid one of those altogether just for the reason they will be out for a maximum of six weeks then you don't know much about football. There's a chance of signing Werner in the summer anyway regardless to give Firmino a bit of competition.

African Cup of Nations moved back to January and February next year. Big blow for Liverpool - Salah, Mane and Keita could be missing for up to 6 weeks.

Keita will probably be injured anyway!

Chance for the likes of Minamino though

It might actually trigger a sale of Mo/Sadio with the likes of Werner coming in in the summer

Minamino coming in could trigger a sale of Salah or Mane? Werner would have no impact on it as he's a striker.

Motion 13 of the adjourned Fermanagh Gaa AGM

When an SFL or Erne Cup Game cannot commence due to an obstruction on the pitch preventing the game going ahead the re-fixture will take place at the venue of the team that was due to play away in the original competition. Amend Adult Competition Regulation 12 accordingly.

Aghadrumsee St.McCartans

Why would there be any obstruction on the pitch? What a load of nonsense 

And when the EU come for our Corporation Tax rate/regime, which they will, then what? Those companies are not here out of the goodness of their hearts. They don't pay a fair share of tax and in a country where we can't run a health service, can't house people, can't provide clean water or fix busted pipes, can't provide a proper transport system I'd say it's high time we started looking at another, more sustainable way of developing our country. How many of those jobs will be there in 10-20-30 years time? How are we going to cope with income/wealth distribution when there are very few jobs that aren't done by machines? What is our approach to the climate emergency apart from taxing carbon and trying to not upset farmers?

Foreign Direct Investment has played an important role in Ireland's development but the time to plan for alternatives is long overdue. We've no plan. We lurch from crisis to crisis - some day we'll hit one we can't overcome by screwing working people.

I understand your sentiments completely, albeit I think some of it is a bit misguided, and I'd love to hear what your alternative to MNCs is!

Apple are here 40 years. There are scores of tech and pharma companies who are here now 20 years. I don't know exactly how many are here over 10 years, but it's well over 100, providing tens of thousands of long term well paid jobs.

Barring the Apple case which is debatable (they have a different structure to all the other tech cos, which I can explain if anyone is bored enough to want to know), every company pays their fair share of Irish tax on Irish profits. 12.5%.
The 2.5% you hear about sometimes from negligent media is absolute nonsense.

Whatever you want to say about FF, their tax policies to attract MNCs was brilliant and really successful. Whatever you want to say about FG, their tax policies have been better again. Our offering to companies looking to move away from havens has been spectacularly successful. And its driven by substance. Ireland does not work from a tax perspective, unless the MNCs bring substance and people. Jobs.

The tax take from corporation tax last year was phenomenal. A one-off many are saying. But this year will blow that out of the water as will the following year. 2021 will be the high point, as EU /OECD rules will push some of the tax elsewhere, but we'll still end up with a good share. There'll be no EU country with a better tax system, albeit we do need to monitor Eastern Europe (and hope that Scotland doesn't gain independence!).

It will be key that we don't blow the 2020/2021 windfalls. Whatever chance we have of FF or FG not spending everything, would you really trust Labour/SD/Greens not to spend it all?

I do think we tax our entrepreneurs too highly. These people also provide hugely valuable employment. While their companies are also taxed at 12.5%, when they take out money themselves, they are being taxed at 53%-55% on their marginal income. It's not a great encouragement for people to work harder when more than half of anything extra they earn goes in tax.

Why do you say working class are being screwed over? Lower paid workers in Ireland pay the lowest tax in the EU.

Health service is 100% a mess. My own mother had a horrific experience this year where she was sent home because a young doctor in Beaumont's primary objective seemed to be not to give her a bed, and it was a miracle it didn't cause her catastrophic injury. Back into A&E where she suffered utter humiliation for 48 hours, before being operated on by a master/genius to give her some chance of a normal life going forward.

Health service isn't a mess because FF and FG haven't thrown buckets of money at it. Some ministers have gone at it with the absolute best intentions but realised they were pishing into the wind. It's a not mess due to our doctors and nurses, who are generally very good. What it needs is a complete rip it up and start again approach. But that would mean lots of admin staff in the health service losing their job or being routed elsewhere. This can't and won't be let happen. Because of union power.
Would that improve under Lab/SD/Greens?

What a load of absolute tripe. Ireland has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, corporate tax rates around, and if the government had a set of balls that would be their first port of call, massively increasing the corporate tax rate for large multinationals to tackle the the housing and health crisis. But no, you as a clear West Brit, for some random reason unrelated to this matter wanting Scotland to remain attached to the UK, says it all. The fact of the matter is that these entrepreneurs are not taxed enough, and taxing them properly, never mind anything unrelated with Scotland, would go a long way to solving simple deficit issues.

Why are Liverpool fans feeling sorry for Everton? Wtf, catch yourselves on, it's absolute comedy gold
A load of our teenagers absolutely dominated their first team, it's too funny

What a performance from Snakebite, blew MVG away there's no two ways about it