It all comes down to whether or not he puts in his report whether he saw it or not. You have got to think that if he did see it, it was a straight red.
If he puts in his report that he did see it, then he has some explaining to do.
the entire crew has a lot of explaining to do. It was a terribly officiated game.
completely seperate from Liverpool, but I love Rodgers being shown for the David Brent clone that he is
Suarez, Sturridge, and an unbelievable season from Gerrard made him look great last year and he got extremely cocky
Martinez' setup at Swansea made him look good there
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"When you (Spurs) spend over £100m you'd expect to be challenging for the league."
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“I have absolutely no sympathy for Southampton, They have a choice as a club. They don’t have to sell. They had that choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were on course to be a #Champions League club, I believe, but, obviously, that has changed.
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completely seperate from Liverpool, but I love Rodgers being shown for the David Brent clone that he is
Suarez, Sturridge, and an unbelievable season from Gerrard made him look great last year and he got extremely cocky
Martinez' setup at Swansea made him look good there
Not sure i completely agree with that. He made a lot of those players better players. Suarez and Sturridge weren't as good before they got there. Sterling has become better under his guidance too. Saying that, this is obviously his biggest test to date. I think they will give him the rest of this season, but if this continues early next season he will go. This season is pretty much a write off. I can't see them finishing in the top 6 let alone top 4. They will also likely get knocked out of the Champions League this week.
The problem at Liverpool is that without Suarez and Sturridge they are blunt. They had problems in defence and midfield last season too, but they were masked by the goals that those 2 scored. Take those 2 out the lineup and the problems become a lot worse. There are no difference makers left in the team anymore. As a result teams that play against them have a lot more confidence and know they can get a result. There are too many mediocre players in the team, and the midfield is terrible. Sterling, and Coutinho are pretty much the only quality players in the team.
The transfer strategy is a joke too. Not one player bought in the summer has shone.
In terms of the system, however, things were more confused. Rodgers received plaudits for his formation switches, which were effective but little more than putting the "SAS" -- and, increasingly, the "SASAS" -- in their most dangerous positions for individual matches and overrunning opposition within the opening half hour.
The strategy of attacking with speed and directness was actually the opposite of the approach Rodgers had initially preached at Liverpool, which was about ball retention and patient build-up. To a certain extent, things simply fell into place.
Liverpool's title charge was comparable to Chelsea's victorious 2009-10 season, when Carlo Ancelotti never found his best system, or even his best XI, but won the title by maximising the individual brilliance of Didier Drogba, Nicolas Anelka, Florent Malouda and Frank Lampard at different points of the campaign.
The next season, when those players couldn't reach the same heights, Chelsea went alarmingly flat because there was no system to fall back upon, and Ancelotti was dismissed at the end of the campaign.
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I don't know what they have done, but Man United must have really offended the football gods with something. Freaking unbelievable.
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Manchester United defender Luke Shaw could miss the rest of the year after being ruled out for at least a month with an ankle injury.
Shaw has suffered another injury setback at Old Trafford and scans have revealed the England international may even miss six weeks in another shattering blow for manager Louis van Gaal.
The 19-year-old suffered ligament damage in United's 2-1 victory at Arsenal on Saturday and left the Emirates Stadium on crutches and wearing a protective boot.
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Of all the things to have a go at Rodgers for, you pick him having a different opinion on something 2 and a half years later?
Whoosh!
A different opinion?
Why don't you enlighten me then on what has happened in the last couple of years that has changed Rodger's opinion and elevated him from not even making a best starting XI to the best player ever?
Why don't you enlighten me then on what has happened in the last couple of years that has changed Rodger's opinion and elevated him from not even making a best starting XI to the best player ever?
he rented his house.
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Why don't you enlighten me then on what has happened in the last couple of years that has changed Rodger's opinion and elevated him from not even making a best starting XI to the best player ever?
You'd have to ask Rodgers, I don't really know how his opinions are formed.
If I had to guess, I'd say working with Gerrard for the last couple of years has raised his opinion of him. Is that unreasonable?
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Why don't you enlighten me then on what has happened in the last couple of years that has changed Rodger's opinion and elevated him from not even making a best starting XI to the best player ever?
He caught whatever Carragher's got, while on the set for BBC?
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After beating Liverpool and Tottenham earlier in the season, Newcastle is now the first team to beat Chelsea this season. You've got to hand it to Pardew - every time you count him out, his team comes back from the dead. Crazy.
What a great match. I was thrilled to see the second Newcastle goal but then the sending off of Taylor had to happen and make the last 15 minutes very stressful to watch. Great win, glad the unbeaten streak is over!
