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With some justification, but they won't be at the appeal hearing. Anyway, just adds to the primary argument that the ref and VARs were not up to scratch.

Didn't neglect to drop back to cover Trent some times as well; but a beautiful footballer, no question.

I was 64 yesterday!

OK, there's been some cry arsing on here worthy of the Moan Stand, but today is my 50th season opening home game as a Season Ticket holder, and I am genuinely buzzing off my head with excitement more than ever, whether or not we have made a show of ourselves in the Transfer Market league or we are putting out a team made from the tea ladies or the owners are the embodiment of pernicious neoliberalism. It's Anfield, we are LFC and it's f***ing on. Let's do it!

Some of the comments about the non-penalty have irked me. If the ball wasn't hit at him such that he was unable to get his hand out of the way, which it wasn't, the body silhouette or natural arm position are irrelevant, just whether it was intentional or not. He moved his hand towards the ball, no question. Instinctive maybe, but he had time to move it out of the way but didn't. If he were to catch the ball with both hands in front if his chest, it would be a penalty, nothing to do with ody position

Maybe. Lavia was either backup/succession to a slowing Fabinho or a risky first-choice 6. Less essential with Caicedo's age and athleticism. Did Jorg know it was going to a late bidding war? Makes the dynamics of the last 3 weeks make sense. He seems, as with Dom, to like a late-night last minute move. And I think Jurgen has previously admitted that while getting players in early in pre-season is good, it's always better to wait a bit for the right one, eg the Virgil saga.

Maybe Jorg is the 4D chess/poker player, and a combined Caicedo/Lavia swoop was always the plan; Lavia price has been agreed, so now he is going all in with the rest of our stash for Caicedo.... Maybe. Maybe not.

Although tbf, Mane - who hadn't had a great first half to the season while Mo was twisting the City and Watford defenders' blood - was brilliant on his return, in a new role.

He seems to have a mentoring element to him. He is very much the senior man there now, and obviously has a fine tactical brain on him. Looking for an iconic final season from him - thinking Alonso 2009 - while helping Klopp and Pep to get their ideas over. Any of that midfield will be better footballers if they listen to and learn from him. Either that or he pisses off to Saudi.

Noticed against Brentford that on more than one occasion someone other than the full back took the throw-in, and that seems to have been an iron rule for years.

Goal difference worth a point to us if its Man Utd we end up catching - they can't afford to end up on the same points as us, less so for Newcastle. It would be beautiful if we do go above them on GD, as it would mean that the 7-0 would be crucial rather than a dismissable freak result (for both teams) as some Utd voices have suggested.

Another season where we don't get doubled by anyone. Small consolation, I know, but makes me smile.

Agree on this, especially the latter point, although not without a caveat. I think Taylor has grown into his Fifa role, and now has much greater authority and confidence, whereas before he was like an insipid rabbit who got bullied by players much too easily and lost control of games. The only problem is that his ropey decision making hasn't improved at all, much like his boss Webb, who had all the right physical attributes and attitude, but just got it horrifically wrong with alarming consistency.

The stats on his decision making are scary. We were in possession of the ball more than twice as much as them, yet we managed to concede twice as many fouls, which, in a simple weighting that you generally concede fouls when not in posession, implies that he gave fouls in their favour at a ratio of 4 to 1, which just defies reasonable expectation. Just for laughs, the worst offender for committing fouls in that game? Hatchet man Mo Salah, of course.

Makes it all the more galling that he was still in the pitch though. And by galling, I mean hilarious.

From long dead balls we lined up with Fabinho in line in a back 5 in that first half, think they made a switch and we stopped doing it.

One of the many clips I have watched of this (BBC?) has the commentator saying he 'rolled it in' or such like it was nothing special, when it was a brilliant finish, real top class.

Tbh, after the diffident manner he showed for the West Ham goal that was ruled out, I thought he showed good, back to what we knew, pace to get back and cover Perisic, but just slipped over.

True, but we know we're not as good a team as we should be yet, so I'll take the spells of glorious football, late drama and Richarlison/blue twitter hubris for now.

Talksport were all over the place on this. They agreed both incidents should have been a red card, but maintained the line that Jota still being on the pitch was the decisive factor in the result because "2 wrongs don't make a right", as if Spurs going down to 10 men at 3-0 down after 30 minutes would not have had an impact - noticed on MOTD, btw, that it was Skipp who sent Perisic away for their first goal as well. The presenter, Hugh Woozencroft, openly a Utd fan - which is fine- was supposed to be the grown up, serious journalist in the room with Ambrose (Spurs fan) and Akinfenwe (big Red), yet came across like a childish twitter troll when asked for his opinion on the Jota decision - "it would have been a Red if it was Casemiro". Just f*** Off.

They're getting Haalands dad in to build it, probably

McNeil is their joint top scorer with 4 goals, alongside Gray, whose 4 include 2 penalties (so better on pens than any of ours, tbf). Only 2 others have more than 1 goal, and one of them plays for Newcastle now.

Fair enough, but is that and the BBC comnent, as said in the previous post, in reaction to statements by Klopp (and others presumably)? Good on any of them who made their position clear. f*** The Tories.

So is it true he has said he won't give an interview to MOTD today? That's our manager.

So many special memories. One last appearance against Arsenal to take the piss again, maybe? The dribbling goal where he sat the whole defence on their arses was magnificent. The backheel flick to Salah running round against the barcodes. All the no look finishes - and of course, sending Soldado out for the papers