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Originally Posted by united
Why didn't you post about the chants the other way? Turn off Twitter right before they started did you? Typical.
You mean the second one United has had in the past 29 matches at Anfield, which was widely reported this week? Great input. Thanks for the play-by-play, too...don't know how we'd manage without it.
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My three posts are a play-by-play?
I'm not one to normally blame refs, but that was ridiculous. I'm completely fine with Shelvey getting the foul on that play, but both players are going in hard on a 50/50 ball. There is just no need for the ref to put his stamp on the game like that when it had been a perfectly clean game up to that point. A yellow would have done just fine to calm the game back down. It was very similar to the Everton-Liverpool game last season when Rodwell got wrongly sent off and completely changed the game.
The penalty was also very questionable. There is very minimal contact on that play and Valencia looks to take a dive when he feels Johnson's hand on his back.
It just doesn't make sense to call both of those plays in United's favor when he turns down Suarez's penalty shout and doesn't give Evra a card at all when he slides Sterling on the edge of the box and gets nowhere near the ball. (And I don't think Suarez's should have been a penalty, I just don't think Valencia's should have been either).