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Wretched, need a big change second half. Gordon has been useless just like he has every match he's played. Howe can't legislate for his defenders suddenly turning into traffic cones but I'd be giving the two of them the bollocking of their lives after that non-performance for the goal.

From .com: Only eight players have scored more goals for the club in the PL, his [Wilson's] Goodison brace seeing him draw level with Ayoze Perez on 33: Callum Wilson 33 Robert Lee 34 Papiss Cisse 37 Nolberto Solano 37 Les Ferdinand 41 Shola Ameobi 43 Andy Cole 43 Peter Beardsley 46 Alan Shearer 148 Does anyone else find this surprising? For me it really underlines how absolutely dogshit our recruitment in terms of forwards was during the Ashley years. Anyone who was decent was quickly sold (Carroll, not that I really begrudge the fat bastard for that sale) or was only temporary (Remy, Rondon.) The first time we actually scouted and paid money for a PL-standard striker, he's turned out our joint-9th top scorer and I expect he'll move up at least 4 places on that list before he's done if not more. Potentially he could end up #2. But rather than simply paying the odds for a quality player, we brought in free transfers (Kuqi, Carroll 2.0), rejects from other clubs (Joselu), planks from overseas (Xisco, Riviere, both de Jongs, Mitrovic, Muto) and loans for crap players (Slimani, Doumbia, Ferreyra.)

That's the Murphy of the last few seasons, only now we can laugh. These have been completely pummelled, have fun playing the mackems next season. The Everton defence was clearly watching our tapes from Sunday...unfortunately they were watching the Tottenham players.

If Gordon scores this place might just go nuclear. The ten fans left will make a racket audible from...er, well, down the road or so.

Pep's got the trophy out, mind games in full effect. This is the day when Arteta cracks and gets sent back to the island of misfit toys.

I'm amazed it hasn't happened sooner. Better let the Aurors know the Dark Lord's going to be at it again after this, flinging curses around with as much accuracy as his Hollywood balls. Also that article twice states he's on loan from us, which thankfully isn't true, we're permanently shot of him.

There's also the issue that he's pony. He'd be great for scoring the fourth goal in a 5-1 defeat of Leicester though, or maybe a hat-trick against Sheffield Wednesday in the FA cup fifth round. I'm not sure if I need a safety wink. I'm also not sure if one is warranted, so I'll leave it up to the reader.

I think it was the 1m each that the Saudis offered them in the dressing room before the game. Makes perfect sense, as long as you have six fingers on each hand.

He looked absolutely miserable, I don't know how he can have any complaints being kept out of the team by Isak though.

Aye, Lloris. "Injured" my arse. He blatantly told Stellini he wasn't going back out there.

The VAR "officiating" over the past two matches has been so bent it's untrue. There's mistakes, and then there's confirmation bias, and then there's CARBON COPY handballs, one given and one not, depending on who's playing. And as HMHM pointed out, you then have to endure the disgusting, sycophantic excuses as to why what's handball for the goose isn't for the gander. "Ohhh there were a lot of players in the area and Maguire's not the only one with his arm up." Dermot fucking Gallagher actually spouted that shite with a straight face. THAT MAKES NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE, you have a series of cameras for the express purpose of catching the clear and obvious error made by the match ref, there's no way that they failed to capture the impact of the ball on Maguire's raised arm. PENALTY ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, ON EVERY PITCH ON THIS PLANET. Cargo cultists in Papua New Guinea knew that was a penalty. Aliens from fucking Alpha Centauri could've spotted that one, get stuffed you set of lying snakes. That's before even getting to the farce that was TAA's handball today. I say farce but farces are supposed to be funny. You could tell there was no way on earth they were going to overturn that goal despite the clear evidence that it was handball. You could also tell that they were about to come up with some BULLSHIT explanation for why the goal should stand, and they duly obliged, saying it was "too early in the move" to count. Right, so we can fucking dribble the goddamn thing like a basketball as long as we play another couple of passes before the eventual finish, is that it? Carragher sounded like he'd swallowed an armadillo when he saw the replay and realised how full of shit that call was, but he defended it anyway, because it's Liverpool Football Club, the greatest team in England and the natural inhabitants of the top 11. They couldn't lie straight in bed, not a one of them. Absolute disgrace.

More than that, they've played with an air of complacency that we never even attempted to disrupt. Once they started with the playacting we should've gone on with a proper reducer on one of the culprits - Moreno the chief diver, but Young and Buendia offering plenty in that department as well - and put them on notice that we weren't going to put up with that shite. They never looked like they knew they were in a game, they looked like they were on the training ground and we did nothing to disabuse them of that notion.

Something about the referroi or the hoi polloi, loike.

There's no excuse for this performance but we have had STONE NOTHING off the "officials" today. Nothing. Not a peep. One of the most one-eyed referees you'll see all season. Conned by every bit of amateur play-acting from these beige wankers.

That said they've made us look incredibly ordinary. Get into 'em Eddie lad, this lot need a wake-up call.

Is this the "game management" we keep hearing about? Bunch of cheats.

...The Den, Fratton Park, the Pirelli Stadium...

I don't understand. There must have been some mistake. Where's the magical home of European nights and glory, Anfield, the greatest stadium in the entire multiverse?

Absolutely, but then it couldn't be the cause celebre for the next week, taking the spotlight off how utterly dogshit Liverpool are. I loathe them so completely. Their fraud manager's fake teeth and fake humility, the deference with which they're treated by officials and the media, the constant wanking over Anfield, their ludicrous spending sprees that somehow are never questioned, their deification of a finished centre-half, Bobo the Clown, their rubbish keeper and his girl's name, and above all, their entitlement. Robertson SHOULD be allowed to pull on a lino's arm and give him dog's abuse, because he plays for Liverpool Football Club. VAR checks? Those don't apply to Liverpool Football Club, any contact and it's a penalty. Added time? Just part of that special Anfield experience. The world will be a better place when those no-account HMRC-dodgers are playing FC Bumfukovic in the European Conference League. Sky will have to find someone else to idolize. I hope it isn't us.

He's a tit. Here's a pair of much better ones, which are the only good things he's brought to the club so far.

How about the Palace one? Because that was the most egregious of the lot for me, and it turned 3 points into 1.

These London mackems have already been dug out once and now the VAR faeries come to their rescue again. But please do go on about how we get favourable decisions every week

Astonishing Fuck all the way off man, that's ludicrous. That might even be worse than the first awful call. If that's handball we may as well pack it in and start playing hockey.

Truly atrocious call. What's the point of VAR? To overturn the ref's on-field decision in cases of clear and obvious error, which that never was. Very, very poor. I can only hope that serves as a wake-up call because we've been as bad as that penalty award was.

The world's greatest striker scored another penalty against crap opposition. Did bugger-all for the rest of the match and went down like a five dollar whore as well.