Our thoughts today, as always, are with all those affected by the tragedy at Hillsborough and the 97 fans who will never be forgotten.
Youβll Never Walk Alone.
@GraemeKelly1 I'm currently working offshore out in Taiwan.
The ship I'm on puts out full trays of stir fried noodles, sweet & sour chicken, curry etc for breakfast at 6am!
I see @GNev2 saying Liverpool shouldn't take further action and sorry is enough. Arsenal and Brighton had apologies last season. United, Luton & Spurs (last week) should have had them this season. Sorry isn't enough. A stand needs to be taken & genuine change with it. Sorry Gary
Spurs v Liverpool: As a Spurs fan, I have to say that Liverpool have a very good case to argue. Clearly their goal should have been allowed. The ramifications of that mistake could cost Liverpool at the end of the season. @LFC
Garyβs hands are tied so heβs spouting corporate nonsense here and minimising a major incident.
I was at #CFCWHU Sept last year what would have been a good last min West Ham equaliser was chalked off for a supposed foul by Jarrod Bowen on CFC keeper Mendy in the build up. The decision was scandalous and the refereeβs body PGMOL have since apologised for the decision. But judging a foul is NOT as clear cut as judging offside. This is the first time a goal has been wrongly chalked off on an offside decision. Football fans have reacted because youβre either offside or youβre not.
As lovers of the game, we have every right to know exactly what went wrong. That it doesnβt happen again is also how the game evolves.
As an extreme example, if airlines said after every air crash βitβs a f@@k up! weβve all done itβ there would be no airline industry. The first phase of an investigation (yes the analogy fits as chalking off a good goal for offside is metaphorically a βcrashβ) is to obtain the data relevant to the mistake. For planes, itβs the black box flight recorder. For Premier league football itβs the conversation between VAR & the referee. This needs to be released into the public domain. The fact that they havenβt means something very wrong has taken place.
@LFC had a good goal wrongly chalked off against a close rival when down to 10 men which could have a massive impact on the season. As a club they have every right to ask for transparency - as in find out exactly what went wrong - and take it from there.
In a post VAR world we are in uncharted territory. Any outcome after such a mistake is on the table, even replaying the game, who knows?
But an apology for βhuman errorβ - which is precisely why VAR was introduced to guard against - now being used to draw a line under the incident?
Not a chance in hell.
Pick your Treble
1999: A team based on academy players, many of them local Mancunian lads.
2023: An autocratic nation state with unlimited wealth and a sports washing project with an overturned UEFA ban and 115 current unanswered charges for cheating and rule breaking.
π¨ Alexis Mac Allister to Liverpool, here we go! Full agreement completed on the contract β understand it will be valid until June 2028. Five year deal. #LFC
Liverpool will pay the buy out clause in the next days, way less than reported Β£60m fee.
Medical tests in 24/48h. Done.
I suppose there will be some boiled piss around the country this time tomorrow.
Fans come to Anfield and chant:
βSign on, youβll never get a jobβ
And classics such as:
βFeed the Scousers, let them know itβs Christmas timeβ
And
βYou nicked my stereoβ
Liverpool fans meanwhile, donate to foodbanks locally and around the country. Foodbanks that wouldnβt exist if the country was run properly. Some of those away fans chanting about poverty will know someone whoβs had to use one.
They also mock the people who died at Hillsborough and use Heysel as some kind of weapon to label literal children as βmurderersβ.
Liverpool fans campaigned for years for better stadium facilities, safety and security for all fans. As well as campaigning for justice for Hillsborough and having a memorial for Heysel - something that people rightly had justice for.
The national anthem gets booed as a form of protest against *some* of the above and Liverpool fans are labelled as the bad guys π€¦ββοΈ
So yeah, letβs keep protesting for a better country for all.