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I'm not sure they would have! It was a shocking challenge. I think we'd at least on here say it was a poor challenge made due to desperation at losing the ball and them being 2-1 down at home. I think the other way round we'd be saying he was lucky not to get sent off if it was a yellow!

Your obsession with defending every bungling referee and every bad/wrong/incompetent decision they make continues to mystify me.

I don't think so. If one of our players did that tackle, we would be criticising him for such a reckless tackle. I'm amazed that it didn't get shown on MOTD when they spent so much time discussing Liverpool not getting a penalty (which they should have).

The FA can still act retrospectively, just because a yellow was shown doesn't stop them. However they wont.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

That's what I think, yes, and it's what I would have wanted had it been the other way around. It's not completely black and white though as it didn't look like a foul (to me) in real time. It's only when it is replayed that you see that he was a should have resulted in a penalty.

I'm certainly not complaining, there have been loads of penalty decisions not given to us. Some highlighted on MOTD but most not.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

I'm getting pretty fed up with the straight red assaults on our players that go unpunished or result in only a booking. Olsson for Sunderland already had a yellow when he did his and still didn't walk. Rojo, God knows how many times and he's currently enjoying a dose of his own medicine. And that one yesterday was as blatant and obvious a straight red card as you could ever expect to see. Stupid, reckless, dangerous challenge with his foot up and studs out and about 200 years late and done on purpose because he knew Tomkinds had won the ball fairly. Doing that on purpose to a player and putting him out for a whole lot of matches is just disgusting and even a sending-off and a three-match ban is lenient: Tomkins could easily miss more than three matches.

The ref made his decision instantly without thinking about it, consulting the other officials, or knowing what damage had been done. That's plain incompetence, if it isn't bias, and if people acted like this anywhere else they'd be up in front of the beak on charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

But because it's Liverpool we carry on as if nothing had happened. Unless you're James Tomkins, that is.

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Well, now if the ref is being consistent then if that was a pen so was the Benteke one. More contact on Benteke than on Coutinho. Giving both would have been consistent. Not giving either is consistent too. But if he gives the Coutinho pen he has to give ours.

Booking Benteke for a "dive" was f***ing preposterous. If you're going to allow a certain level of contact before you blow the whistle it follows that not all tumbles in the box are either a) penalties or b) simulation.

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Had he gone down he'd have got the penalty and rightly so, luckily for us his will to continue gave them the advantage which they wasted. As for the tckle on Tomkins, absolutely horrendous! thought when i saw it that was his season over.

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