Let's unpack this.
Are we saying that the decisions don't even out over the course of the season because that's not how probability works in practice, or are we saying there's some anti-Liverpool agenda?
Because I'd agree with the first part, but the second part we'd have to see more compelling evidence.
i.e. if someone, or some people, undertook an analysis of every contentious decision in every Liverpool game across multiple seasons (probably at least 3-5 to overcome sample size effects), compared the decisions across different referees (to understand if there are referee effects for/against Liverpool), and to be really helpful, compared those results with the results we get in European competitions. And if all of that comes up saying one, some or all of the referees have an anti-Liverpool bias, then we'd have a case.
But that's the level of analysis required before we want to start claiming anti-Liverpool bias.
The problem is that certain match officials have been designated as the elite.
It is very much a closed group, and within that group certain officials get to do more “high profile” games.
Some seem to be stuck in the assistant role
Sian Massey has been competently running the line for years without being given the chance to actually referee. I assume there are several others, (including the dickhead from the Spurs debacle a couple of years ago) who seem to be unable to break the clique.
Those who have made it to the top table, seem impervious to criticism.
Howard Webb was shite. Virtually every game I saw him referee whether Liverpool were involved or not, he made a major error. He usually shit out of decisive action. I still say he shit out of sending off Costa In the first minute at Chelsea a decision that summed him up to a T.
After that World Cup final where he did precisely that, he should have been asked to hang up his whistle at the top level.
Instead he was still touted as the English version of Collina. Bald headed Poster boy for the FA.
(Look how many refs shaved their heads after Collina made it cool)
We saw on Saturday, the unedifying sight of John Moss rolling around the pitch like a settee on casters, there is no way he could be classed as fit yet he seems to pass the fitness tests.
Atkinson has had a shocking week -I see Spurs have appealed the Son red card, and rightly so. He was shit at OT, he was shocking on our VAR, and was shown up in the Everton game.
There were numerous incidents where he clearly got things wrong.
I know Richarlison makes it hard for refs with his diving around, but there were a couple of times I thought he got nailed. Similarly Son was denied a penalty early in the second half. If you look at the incident, where the defender slides into Son, he was lucky to get away without a knee injury, yes he was theatrical but he was fouled and the challenge ‘had the potential to injure” him. He shit his shorts when he saw the injury to Andre Gomes and appeared more concerned about sending Son off than the injured player.
Into the mix we add Andy@Allertons mate. Taylor.
Again, we are told he is good young referee (bald as well👍) when in fact he is crap.
Another one who seems to have been trained in the art of the non controversial response to key incidents. (See Kompany v Salah last season for evidence)
As we are a top side we are given the so called “top officials” more often than not for our games. With our red specs on we see the injustices and point to bias, when in fact the problem is not bias but the abysmal level of the top officials in the country.
Remember our refs are paid somewhere in the region of £100k a year, yet were not able to produce one for the World Cup.
That Mike Riley is in charge of a private company contracted to provide elite officials, possible explains why the elite clique are not challenged.
Even the fact that TV refs spend their time finding reasons to explain some frankly bizarre decisions shows the way in which the myth of “elite” officials is maintained.