The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC thread - Arne to Slot right in?

[RedHand88]

It's the knock on effects of this that make it such a vile decision.

PL refs have gone from waving yellows for simulation at the start of the season, to giving it the maximum reward.

The next batches of PL games will be a non stop exhibition of diving. Which I hate watching.

https://x.com/thisisanfield/status/1742134033256001710?s=20

Man who committed the actual foul itself disagrees with you.

[thewobbler]

It doesn't make you a weaker person or Liverpool a weaker club, to be able to occasionally admit when a Liverpool player is in the wrong.

[north_antrim_hound]

It doesn't make you a weaker person or Liverpool a weaker club, to be able to occasionally admit when a Liverpool player is in the wrong.

In fairness he did hit the deck but only after the nukecastle goalie fluffed his lines on pulling him down. Lay your hand on anyone like that and they are gonna milk it. You'd think this penalty made a difference to the result listening to the bitching on here.

[Milltown Row2]

He done what every player nowadays is trained/coached to do when in the box.

Any contact you're leaving the ref to make a decision, also leaving the VAR to have a look also

Keeper made the mistake, that's on him.

I'm just disappointed Newcastle didn't get a late consolation goal to make it 4-3

[Armamike]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

[J70]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

Yep.

How many times have you heard a commentator say "if he'd gone down there instead of staying on his feet, he'd have got a penalty"?

[Cavan19]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

He could have just kicked the ball into the net instead of diving though.

[marty34]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

He could have just kicked the ball into the net instead of diving though.

I think as he rounded the keeper, his touch was a bit too heavy and sent the ball away from goal a bit more than he'd have liked.

Then his thought process kicked in.
Keeper has made an attempt to get the ball but pulled arm away at the last second and his arm might have brushed him ever so slightly.  Ball going away from goal...I'll go to ground.

That's it in a nutshell.

[RedHand88]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

He could have just kicked the ball into the net instead of diving though.

Could have but he didn't and Liverpool won handily enough.

[trueblue1234]

It doesn't make you a weaker person or Liverpool a weaker club, to be able to occasionally admit when a Liverpool player is in the wrong.

It also doesn't make you a weak person to realise making hyperbole comments about the incident is a load of bo!!ix as well. And trying to make it into something monumental when these sort of dives are dime a dozen.

[Armamike]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

He could have just kicked the ball into the net instead of diving though.

Agreed. 

[trailer]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

He could have just kicked the ball into the net instead of diving though.

Agreed. 

Good job LiVARpool have McSpitty on Sky to make the stupid argument that it wasn't a dive.

[RedHand88]

The reality is if a player doesn't go down he won't get a penalty even if it is a blatant foul

He could have just kicked the ball into the net instead of diving though.

Agreed. 

Good job LiVARpool have McSpitty on Sky to make the stupid argument that it wasn't a dive.

This has really really annoyed you hasn't it? Was your Christmas break ruined by Liverpools surge?

[Look-Up!]

I thought it was a clear penalty. Didn't agree with commentary either saying it was delayed, he took too many steps or went on for 3 or 4 yards. He had his foot clipped. When running at speed this generally results in falling. He never regains stride after getting his foot clipped. He falls as the foot first touches the ground after being clipped.

Maybe he could have regained balance if he had really tried but had he not been clipped it's a tap in goal. If he had managed to stay on his feet there's a good chance the loss of momentum significantly reduced the chances of scoring and if he missed, the referee in all probability would not have brought play back and correctly awarded a penalty.

I find it very funny that it's so widely accepted by everyone that it's a blatant penalty where a player dives, leaves a trailing leg and essentially kicks the goalie but there's such outrage over an incident where a player makes an honest effort to pass a goalie cleanly, gets genuinely impeded and doesn't bust himself to stay on his feet.

[Milltown Row2]

Was there a penalty call last night at the start of the West Ham game when there was contact in the box and nothing awarded, the commentators used the Liverpool penalty incident saying there is no consistency on the calls..

Didn't see it but on the radio the pundits said the difference was the ref didn't call it so VAR didn't it intervene . But had the Ref called it the VAR would have stood by the Ref's call!

Its getting harder to work out