New match according to Claus Bo Larsen

[DannyMan2006]

I didn't know the rule, but the referee should. I was left thinking "that can't be right" .

We were out played by Sunderland, but goals change games. Had that goal been ruled out we could have been talking about a totally different performance.

[Darth Marty]

I dont give a **** how the ball went in the net, a sunderland fan could have run on the pitch and scored for all I care, the facts are we should have battered those cunts anyway. No excuses as we were ****ing terrible. Again.

[pondus]

Still can't believe that the referee didn't know the rule. It is his job isn't it? A professional referee! What if this happened other places in society? Would they be let off as easily? A man working at the airport control center.. A judge in a court..

And don't tell me it's "only" football, because it isn't. Peoples jobs depend on whether they win or lose. I really hope the FA look into this and make sure this CUNT never referee again. If you have a job, make sure you can do it properly, in this case, the bare minimum would be to know the rules of football when refereeing a football match.

Hope he loses his job, the ****ing ****.

[TheElephantMan]

the bare minimum would be to know the rules of football when refereeing a football match.

A professional referee doesn't know the rules of football and has zero common sense and yet Rafa says nothing. I think in this instance he would have been expected to protest, I'm dumbfounded as to why he didn't?

[kingfunk]

Hope it wasn't Craig; he'd have to be put on suicide watch

Im sure he thinks the beach ball was radio controlled my a mole from manchester sitting on the roof of the stadium.

[Exiled_red]

I dont give a **** how the ball went in the net, a sunderland fan could have run on the pitch and scored for all I care, the facts are we should have battered those cunts anyway. No excuses as we were ****ing terrible. Again.

I don't think that's the point though, how many times do we see games where the best team doesn't win? Quite often in fact, it's part of the game.

Regardless of what we deserved to get (and I'm the first to admit we deserved to lose on the balance of play), we lost to a goal that should not have stood, if the right decision had been made we'd have got a point.

[RedSpartan]

The result is not the most galling thing. The performance is what was unacceptable. These 10 outfield players (I'm excusing Pepe who was left exposed all day) had a chance to prove those who said we were a two man team wrong. All they did was enhance that with a ****ing inept performance. Defensively we were creaking throughout the game, but survived time and time again. I haven't seen a worse Liverpool performance in the final third in years. Where to start...

Dirk Kuyt up front is a disaster waiting to happen. Time and time again, from Athens to Blackburn, he has proven himself not to be a lone striker. As usual he was dropping so deep, to play a sideways pass or lose the ball, that it was hard to know where he was playing. Then just when you thought Babel was playing up front he is out on the left. If I never see Ryan Babel in a Liverpool shirt again it will bother me not one bit. He is an experiment that has failed and he has taken none of his chances to shine. Liverpool Football Club cannot wait around for him to fulfill his promise. Time to get rid. Yossi Bennyoun is the new Luis Garcia. I'm prepared to excuse him based on his ability to change games occasionally, but he was woeful today. Offered absolutely nothing going forward. Lucas had a decent enough game but what is infuriating about this lad is his apparent lack of desire. Losing the ball, then jogging back as the opponents stream through midfield, is unacceptable. Add to that the amount of really silly free kicks the lad gives away and you have a tackler up there with Scholes. Jay Spearing was a silly choice. Not his fault, but he's clearly not up to it. Carling Cup maybe, but not the Premier League. The much derided Cattermole dominated both today and this was by a stretch the weakest centre mid in recent memory.

What do these players do in training? More precisely, what does Fabio Aurelio do? Because he didn't do much defending. But what was even more galling was his inability to deliver a decent corner or free-kick for 97 minutes. How hard is it to beat the first man, seriously. He made the case for Insua today.

I can't say too much against NGog and Voronin as they didn't get much time. But the lack of a decent backup striker and winger is still, 5 years down the line, our biggest issue. Everything is through the middle and congested. I never once expected anyone off the bench was going to rescue us.

The balloon will take the headlines but it should be the performance. Never in a million years is this squad good enough. Rafa has spent the money but the squad is not even close. I truly believe that a good manager can get the most out of even the worst players but today they looked totally confused with the system, uninspired and lacking in confidence. That is down to the manager. I don't have the solution, but something has to change.

well put and well said!