http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/10/kenny-dalglish-liverpool-referees
I actually clicked on that expecting some sort of evidence or argument at least, but there's nothing. It's just one claim attached to the end of an article without any substance or support whatsoever.
Not to take away from Kenny, butI don't recall a bad decision in the Arsenal match. In fact, we were a little fortunate as I think the Suarez one was offside. We were done by in the Sunderland match though. Multiple times.
I don't think it was offside - it was certainly very close. How about when Arshavin (?) bulldozes Kelly into next week to create their best chance of the game? That was a clear foul. And it could've been a HUGE decision (and it was an incredibly easy one to give) to put them 1-0 up instead of us taking the lead not long after, similar to yesterday actually, if it wasn't for Reina.
Sunderland: red card for Richardson and Carroll's disallowed goal.
Arsenal: Arshavin's push
Bolton: at least 2 penalties
Stoke: penalties...
I don't have an issue with every single decision but to have at least one big decision go against you in every game, at least two decisions in three of our four games, is ridiculous. The only contentious decisions above are the Arsenal game where you could say they got lucky once (as did we), which evens itself out. If you like. And we went on to win that one, which kind of proves the point.
I'm not asking for every single decision to be given in yesterday's game, but when we have two legitimate shouts for penalties that are at least as valid (in fact, moreso) than Walters' swan dive, and yet theirs is given and neither of ours are, that's when I have a problem. I think we're just asking for consistency. The Suarez one late on wasn't a penalty but the handball in the first half was as much of a penalty as the Walters incident, and the Skrtel foul was a BLATANT penalty, and I completely agree with the analysis of that incident given above. Apparently if you shoot (instead of passing or dribbling) then it just doesn't count as a foul... why not?