**** ME!!!!!!!
Sigh, what a way to drop two points. Fair ***** to Everton they deserved a point and had Pool held on that would have been a superb result.
That was not a good game, it was like a throwback to 1990's football, albeit with 2020's standard tackles. Moyesy playing two big men up front and hitting them early at every given opportunity (cough hoofball) meant it was just a glorified game of head tennis at times. Still, no arguments Everton would have been hard done by if they left empty handed.
That equaliser does grate through. There was what looks very much like a foul on Salah on the edge of Everton's box 30 seconds before the goal, the fact it was borderline offside (the lines were needed) and there was a push on Konate that is right in the grey area of 'it affects him but us it enough for a foul?' all go against Liverpool.
But the bit that really gets me, and I was shouting this at the time, the ref signalled for 5 minutes of stoppage time and Everton scored in the 98th minute. Now, I know they can and do add extra time for stoppages in ET but ehh Pool weren't exactly going "full Newcastle/Jose." Granted they weren't rushing throw ins etc, but ehh who would in their place? There was a clash of heads between two Everton boys but that didn't take two and a half minutes. Where the **** Michael Oliver found that time from I will never know.
But then it's Michael Oliver. The guy who thought Lewis Skelly (spelling) deserved a red for that foul 70 yards from his own goal, the man who thought Jeremy Doku kicking Alexis MacAllister in the chest was fair enough and not a foul, the man who thought Jordan Pickford going in scissors style on VVD knee when the ball was on the ground and two yards away, wasn't a foul, the man who serially ruins games week in week out.
Dacoure goading the Liverpool fans a full time was ******* stupid. Given how the game ended to run over and do that, he deserves more than a 1 game ban. Curtis Jones was daft to react, albeit it is understandable and Rio Ferdinand even said he did the same, still daft! The ****** who threw the bottle on needs a life ban from football. He can claim provocation, but there is no need or excuse for that. Bye bye ********. Slot and his coach seemed to get reds for telling Michael Oliver a few home truths, that obviously can't be allowed cos we all know referees are perfect and never make mistakes and even if they do (ehh like last night) and you point it out, the FA/PL will shaft YOU and protect the incompetent ref. And Oliver was not good last night, a lot of very strange calls, both ways, players booked for tackles that 2 minutes later weren't even fouls. Advantage played and when the player lost the ball seconds later, ie NO advantage came, he played on. All fans and players want is consistency. Normally they moan about inconsistency between refs and how incidents in one game are given and not given in another. Last night Michael Oliver was giving stuff one minute and then seconds later waving play on for an arguably more blatant foul. The only consistent thing about him is how ***** he is
Still, keeps it interesting for the neutral.
The "foul" that lead to Everton's 1st
Slot's Red card. Clearly he said something, but I have seen many a manager approach a ref in much more aggressive ways and not get sent off. Not that that entitles Slot to be ****.
The non foul on Salah. Am I being a dick or is that not a foul all day long? doesn't get the ball, isn't even close to getting it, and clearly does get Salah's legs. Michael Oliver is 10 feet away with an unimpeded view.
the Konate non foul, you probably need to try and find a video of it as still an be misleading, and the coming together between two everton players with ehhh 13 seconds left. Obviously that necessitated 2 extra minutes. The Salah non foul above was 30 seconds before Everton scored and both were in the time Michael Oliver allowed after the stoppage for the coming together.....which happened with 13 seconds left
None of that is meant as a 'woe is me' BS post and I hope I ain't coming across as one of those Liverpool fans. It's more to highlight just how rubbish Michael Oliver is. Arsenal fans will already know. And he was bad both ways, Pool got a soft free that stopped an Everton break. Beto would have been 1 on 1 from just inside his own half with VVD coming across to cover. I can't find a video of that, but I'm highlighting it to show he ****** things up both ways and it wasn't just Pool getting stinkers.
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it's been a horrible run, hopefully the only way is up now. Saying that I didn't enjoy most of the game, while the first half was pretty open with decent chances at both ends, I thought we were incredibly lucky to hang on in the second half, United could easily have won that if not for some poor finishing. The Spurs defence is just so easy to slice through.
