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I also thought it was for proper breaks in play and substitutions - I don't think I've ever added time for goal celebrations (unless they ran well off the pitch).

Lampard was talking nonsense about only Pool getting these penalties at Anfield. Since Klopp has been there Everton have got 2 pens in games between them and Liverpool have had zero! Anyway, I felt he stepped across Matip to initiate contact - I am not sure if we can accept it as an intentional...

How do you get four points? Even if Everton had got the penalty there is no guarantee they would have scored it and of course Liverpool scored 2 so they would have still lost. One more point would still have them in the bottom 3.

Well I thought if you watch it - he moves across into the path of Matip and starts to go down causing Matip to have to juggle his feet and lose his balance. Gordon is an exceptional young players and probably deserves to be playing on a higher stage than Everton can ever give him but he needs to...

I think in both cases the player has gone down with the slightest touch. Gordon for all the good that he does just dived at the faintest touch all game and the referee was very kind in not sending him off. And Richalison should have gone late on but the refereee felt there was enough punishment...

Surely that's like saying if you slide in and take the ball your follow through can be ignored? Players have to make a decision on the sort of challenge they do whether they are jumping in with arm flailing about or studs showing in a challenge knowing full well that if they can't stop (as they...

He missed all sorts of fouls - especially on Salah - I thought it was just the english refs who had an agenda against him but I guess it goes as far as Europe as well. With regards to TAA, he is expected to push high especially when Liverpool have the ball - its the way its done nowadays (see...

Ahh found it:

Does anyone think this challenge was worthy of a penalty. Even as a Pool supporter I think we got lucky here and Alisson took out James with a clumsy lack of control. Once again I can't find the actual clip - but Alisson went to take the kick and just when James went to rob him I think he gets...

This is great - thanks Rusty! That makes everything a bit clearer certainly. My only concern then as a Liverpool fan is the referee - Atkinson - has given us 1 penalty in 29 games. I would suggest this is a small amount for the number of games and the likelihood of us getting fouled in the...

Ok I get both your points but are you saying then that a kick needs to have a instant physical response to be deemed a foul? If for example a player jumps to head the ball but at the last second someone pulls his shirt - and this is a minor pull that pribably reduces his jump by an inch which...

I think if you have your back leg kicked - even the smallest amount - you are unbalanced and can't do the next step. Now I guess it says in the LOTG that you can do this as the player needs to expect to have their feet removed from beneath them?

It's me again complaining about VAR (what a surprise). So, Salah get's his back leg kicked and then falls over as he's lost his pushing leg to kick the ball in the area. There are probably better pictures and videos out there on this but why wouldn't VAR deem it a foul? It seems to me since...

Just after Salah takes this shot that the keeper does well to save - he is tackled badly from behind and play is waved on - surely this is a foul after the shot has taken place. How come we see this all the time on tv in big matches and you never get the foul? Surely it doesn't matter that the...

I think I need to say the alternative in both situations. 1) Jota tries to chip the ball to the right, gets the wrong connection but to me it looks like he's already decided to move to the right. Now surely if a defender does the same thing and comes sliding in uncontrolled with out any way of...

Ok I agree my words were poorly chosen but accountability is one that still seems to be fair as they don't have any and if we are not looking at nefarious work then I guess incompetent is probably fair instead. I mean how do you decide as a VAR to not review an incident that we pretty much in...

It was a shocking challenge from Kane and he should have been sent off. It don't matter if Robertson took evasive action to avoid the hit as it was plain wrong and anyone who thinks different needs to re-read the rules. I wonder if Kane gets England Captains privilege as he seems to get away...

Someone mentioned in another forum that for two of the games yesterday the VAR had a senior ref to the referee on the pitch and in both cases asked the ref to review and in the end the decision was overruled. In the Liverpool match the roles were reversed. Do we have figures on how many times a...

Well surely VAR should have been able to work out if the reaction was over the top for the initial action? Is it in the rules that you can't ask the referee to review his decision for the red card?

So being pushed in the back and touching the ball is deliberate hand ball whereas pushing the ball down to your feet with your hand is not? Kane's handball was exactly that - and the goal shouldn't have stood. It gave him an advantage to create a goal scoring opportunity. The rules are just to...