Everton post match

[McDermotX]

Brendan's face.......priceless

[Gaz]

The ref would say 'i disallowed the goal because the assistant flagged for offside.

Don't be such a pedant, you know what I meant

[Fivex]

Done

Awesome, cheers

[Vermilion]

IMO the bit in bold tells you everything about the refs bias against us this season. ****ing disgusting IMO

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been warned ahead of the Merseyside derby against Everton that his continual berating of match officials will not help his team's cause.

Referees' chief Mike Riley and his members are angered by Rodgers continuing to claim his club are victimised by officials, regarding it as a tactic to seek an advantage.

Ahead of the crunch match at Goodison Park, the Liverpool boss has defiantly repeated his frustrations over the way his club's games are officiated, sarcastically remarking he would have to take a holiday when his striker Luis Suarez got a decision in his favour.

'Brendan Rodgers isn't the first manager to try it on,' said a referees' source.

'He has been reminded that Kenny Dalglish did the same thing as Liverpool manager last season and it didn't work for him.

'It won't work for Brendan, either. There have been phone calls which have relayed that message. It is pretty clear.'

Premier League referees, who are looked after by Professional Game Match Officials Limited, are becoming increasingly resentful at the way they believe they are being used as scapegoats by managers for poor results.
Victim? Luis Suarez has been booked three times for diving at Liverpool


Rodgers has been strident in his defence of controversial Uruguay striker Suarez, who has been booked for diving three times since he joined Liverpool at the start of last year.

Rodgers blasted referee Mike Jones for not awarding Suarez a penalty against Norwich last month.

When the Uruguayan was clearly seen to have dived the following weekend against Stoke City, however, Rodgers claimed not to have seen it.

He continued his theme ahead of today's derby game when he said: 'One of these days, we will get a decision.'

Everton, though, clearly felt Suarez's over-reaction to a tackle in a derby match last season cost Jack Rodwell a red card and Goodison boss David Moyes has hit back at the striker's antics, saying: 'He has history. It will turn the supporters away.'

Rodgers was appointed after Kenny Dalglish created a PR disaster by supporting Suarez in his racial abuse case with Manchester United's Patrice Evra.

But the Ulsterman, who has been mocked as football's answer to fictitious television windbag David Brent from The Office for his appearances in a fly-on-the- wall documentary Being: Liverpool, has also been strident in sticking up for his club's interests.


And he again appeared to try to put pressure on a referee, Andre Marriner, who takes charge of the derby.

'It is so important for the referees to stay calm and not get excited,' said Rodgers.

'I've seen it over the years, some of the tackles in these games is incredible. My last memory was a tackle of [Everton's] Steven Pienaar that was up around the top of the guy's thigh. I don't believe he even got booked for it, which was absolutely incredible.

'So there's a responsibility there for the refs to make sure it's a football game and not a rugby game.'

Read more: Rodgers told to stop attacking referees: Liverpool boss warned to lay off men in black | Mail Online
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So how teh feckin hell have they not done the same to DBF over two decades of him doing exactly the same thing, ffs it's even labelled as 'doing a fergie' these days.

It's utterly biased that they should single BR's and LFC out like that.

[Ams12]

There was something on sky sports news this morning saying BR was trying to line up a loan move for the Drog's when the chinese season finishes in a couple of weeks...saying that we will be linked with every tom dick & harry of a striker from now till end of transfer window/until we actually sign one!

[Vermilion]

****ing bummer at the end there, Moyes' words may have had the desired effect after all, I'm certain if it were another player, the goal would've stood. That said, we threw a 2 goal lead away, which is unacceptable. Onwards and upwards.

Oh come on it happens, utd just did the same not 15 mins ago, luckily for them though as ever, the gods throw them a life line and Chavs are down to 10 9 men.

We may have lost a two goal lead, but we didn't collapse and cave in after doing so, and should have won, so something to be said for that. Plenty of positives to take from today still. imo.

[Cormack74]

Been out all day:

clip / link to the non offside anyone?

[Bender]

Total LFC @TheTotalLFC
David Moyes: "It was a goal at the end. We were lucky." #LFC

1h Total LFC @TheTotalLFC
Rodgers when asked about Suarez diving “do you want me to talk about Phil Neville?” #LFC

[Vermilion]

****e cowards these interviewers, why didn't they ask Moyes about Nevilles dive!! It's a question that needed to be asked after what Moyes said, and it should have gone something like.....

David, bearing in mind your worries about fans being turned away from football, are you disappointed with your Captains blatant attempt at cheating, by diving, cheating and diving, putting pressure on the ref and putting fans off the beautiful game with his actions of cheating and diving!, what will you say!?...... David!? what will you do about your Captains cheating! and diving! David!?

But the ****s never do, they just ask the same, safe, mundane questions.

[McDermotX]

Total LFC @TheTotalLFC
David Moyes: "It was a goal at the end. We were lucky." #LFC

1h Total LFC @TheTotalLFC
Rodgers when asked about Suarez diving “do you want me to talk about Phil Neville?” #LFC

TBF, at least Neville didn't try to fob it off after the game.....held his hands up.

[peekay]

[Vermilion]

[Fredo]

Rodgers laughing has to be a sight to behold as well.

[Shaggy]

Nice little dig at Everton's hoofball

And the manager revealed how he made the switch in order to add more aerial prowess to his back-line, in the form of Coates, rather than to subdue Kevin Mirallas, who had posed a real threat to the Reds throughout the first half.

"I did it to deal with two tall strikers [Nikica Jelavic and Marouane Fellaini]," explained Rodgers. "Everton just smashed the ball up to them so it was as simple as that.

"They played direct, so I felt we needed that extra body and Seb could come and play central to pull our two centre-backs closer together. It also allowed us to be offensively set up to go and play as well.

"We knew there was going to be a wee bit of room on the side of the midfield but my concern was that whenever they had the ball, it was constantly thumped into the box, so we organised the game to make them play deeper."

[James P]

TBF, at least Neville didn't try to fob it off after the game.....held his hands up.

Have to say that I think that Moyes was pretty fair after the match - admitted it was a goal, criticised Neville for diving, and said that he would have celebrated like Suarez if the situations were reversed.