It definitely wasn’t one decision against us. Diaz and Trent being booked for complaining about clear fouls not given or soft ones being given, while Joelinton could have been booked three times before he finally was.
Salah being dragged down and ignored, while Gordon throws himself over and Endo is booked. Diaz being shouldered over by Joelinton and Taylor waving it away. Forcing play on when we’d have rather have had the free-kicks and the two players booked, the second of which led to their second goal.
The fact that we ended up with more fouls against us than Newcastle, when they played like absolute yard dogs, is baffling.
I don’t personally think there is corruption, just terrible officiating. And some of that manifests itself in refs *choosing* to ref certain Liverpool players differently.
But you aren't going to get every single decision mate, that's football. The decisions you've listed are all pretty 50/50, if they went our way we'd think correct and Newcastle would think it's a joke and the ref is in our favour. A couple of them (I don't know how people manage to remember every single foul in the game
) probably were fouls but refs are always going to miss a few, it's the nature of the game. The Joelinton one was the only one where I thought he'd made a big mistake because he acknowledged it was a foul that broke up an attack and you would usually always see a yellow card for that.
Diaz and Trent shouldn't have reacted the way they did either, in fact Trent's in particular was just stupidity. You know what's going to happen when you kick the ball away in frustration.
When you look at the big decisions in the game, they got it all spot on. The linesmen both correctly called every tight offside decision without needing VAR interference, and the ref correctly awarded us two penalties. I genuinely thought the refereeing was good yesterday and yet you've got everyone on here calling conspiracy against Liverpool and everyone else saying conspiracy for Liverpool.
Refs and the VAR system have had loads of fair criticism but they must be wondering what the fuck they have to do after yesterday. They've got Klopp hounding the 4th official all game, Howe slagging then after the game, they've been booed off the pitch at the end of each half despite giving us a penalty in each, they've got all the major decisions spot on and quickly clarified by VAR and yet absolutely nobody is happy. It's little wonder they go into the mode of protecting their own at times because they're on a hiding to nothing.
The tone is set by people on all sides who've made up there's an agenda and then spend every game finding evidence to prove it. Every little incident now is turned into something it's not and nobody is blameless in that. Managers, players and pundits first and foremost need to get a grip of their behaviour. There are serious questions to ask about the standard of refereeing and the implementation of VAR in this country but its clouded and just becomes a joke when there's such extreme reactions, on all sides, to games like last nights.
