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Imagine if the game was at SJP and the ref was from Gateshead , and claimed to be a ‘Heed fan. What’s that ? You can’t imagine it? Aye, because it would never be allowed.

If that was at the other end he'd have swallowed his fuckin whistle immediately

As expected. This has been shite.

Decent start to the chart week...

We cancelled our staff Xmas party for obvious reasons. Unfortunately some cow in our team is leaving after 12 years and organised her OWN leaving do. Sat in a bar in Manchester waiting for everyone to turn up and I fully can’t be arsed

He reffed the playoff game v the mackems up here and told the mackems the game would finish even if it was midnight after the pitch invasion stopped the game for 20 mins or whatever it was. Some on this board may have been one of the pitch invaders but I couldn't possibly comment. 😬

Me dad knew George Courtney and I remember us chatting to him on the beach in Benidorm one time I think it might’ve been when the 82 World Cup was on, although he wasn’t England’s representative there (think he was in 86 at Mexico). Anyway, enough of that uninteresting and barely relevant anecdote.

Nick Hammond. It literally says his name twice in the tweet, try to keep up.

Two fingers to you, you Geordie nincompoops. I am Mike Dean, superstar referee, celebrity and very important man. I get nothing wrong. Ever.

I used to be mad BUT I'M ALRIGHT NOWWW!!! You heard it here first, I heard it first in my head.

lest we forget

The match finished about an hour ago, mate. You might want to see someone about those flashbacks.

I will defend the creative mavericks. I will get excited about Comic Book movies. I will laugh at farts. I will never give up my inner child.

This is the kind of shit you used to say about Robert. "It's not his fault, it's his teammates! You leave my maverick alone!" Dave, when are you gonna lose this romantic view of the game. You must be 40 now. This has to stop.

Aye, but that's one thing in a by election but will it work nationally in a GE? Anyway, its taken a bit longer than I had expected, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the slow death of Johnson. Lie yourself out of this you cunt. Only question is which cunt will replace him? I'm not sure about Sunak now. As has been pointed out, he's a midget. And he's Asian. And he's a billionaire banker which really isn't good optics during a recession (which is incoming). But more importantly, as current chancellor, he can't easily extricate himself from the mess Johnson has left behind (which seems to be the tories main strategy nowadays). Gove? Honestly probably unelectable. Patel ditto for many reasons (I fucking hope so anyway). So who does that leave? For me it's Truss. A Thatcher-lite wannabe who is thick as pork shit. If Starmer can't beat that then God help us.

Hayden probably gets an arm in the face or head from the falling Schar was it? You can't see it on camera although one of the angles gives the biggest clue and he won't know who's hand or elbow it is so he's hoping it's picked up by var or the ref it seems to me. Either way, I wouldn't be too happy if I was a Liverpool fan and he stopped it if they scored directly after he fell but it comes out and goes wide and he 100% stops it if it was the other way around.

So Simon Case who's investigating the parties was throwing his own parties too.

Let's face it, Dean shouldn't have been allowed to referee last night because he's fucking awful since Poll retired he's been the one referee who wants the game to be about him more than any other. Where he's from is beside the point.

George Courtney, a fabulous ref, was never allowed to ref us because he was from County Durham. Dont think he was a Mag, it just wasn't allowed. More recently there was Clattenburg who was a self confessed fan but the point remains... someone told me that cunt from the Wirral we had last night has kids who are season ticket holders at Anfield...fuck knows if its true mind but there you go...

He stopped play for a knee injury. It is especially absurd as there were two players down, meaning that it was highly unlikely one was feigning injury to get the game stopped. German commentators were really surprised about the key decisions and why Dean was running across the pitch to get in the way of a shot. The amount of extremely dodgy decisions recently do make me question if referees do really approach the game in a fair manner since the takeover.

It was genuinely atrocious officiating. The rule is completely clear, if it’s a suspected head injury the ref has to stop play, I agree with others that if a goal had come immediately the decision was hard to make but the ball was cleared and he had a good amount of time to just halt play. Instead he chose to allow play to carry on with two players down in the middle of the area, one of them even being the one who played Jota onside. The pen decision was also rank imo, you can’t take the player first then the ball but Dean and VAR are never giving that for us. His run in front of Shelvey was also a fucking joke, why the fuck is he there? And if so why is he running across the ball like that? He clearly impeded Shelvey from pressing. One of the worst displays of officiating I’ve seen in a long time. I know the bloke is from the Wirral and claims to be a Tranmere fan iirc but whatever the case he shouldn’t be officiating Liverpool or Everton games, either he just had one of the worst ref displays I’ve seen by complete chance or something dodgy was going on but the fact there’s even a question of that is on the PL for allowing this plonker to be in charge of Liverpool games. Hard to look past those decisions for me in terms of the game, they were so egregious imo that it completely ruined the game. Imagine the fucking meltdown the teeth nasher would be having if those decisions were against him.

Who for?! He probably does need a break tbh but the tweets right, hes far and away our best out ball and takes the ball further up the pitch than absolutely anyone else. Frankly if his decision making when it comes to making a pass was better, he'd already be playing for someone better than us.

Ah yes, silly little voter plebs listening to the media and not being clever enough to understand the truth of the matter. Life would be so much easier without all that "noise" and "sound".

I’ll take it to the grave

Given ears are meant to keep growing he’ll be like fucking Dumbo if he makes it to 70

He's got more England caps than Jack Charlton, Nat Lofthouse or Nobby Stiles.

I was cheering him on.

We need some proper players.

I enjoyed ASM telling Howe he needed to come off.....

That made me very uncomfortable, and that’s rarer than rocking-horse shit.

"I think you'll find the referee had a great game."

They were always weaponising the ECJ issue. No one in NI gives a fuck about it. Yet again the EU are the adults in the room. They’ve slashed the number of border checks required and unilaterally fixed the medicine issue. Meanwhile the U.K. have simply been moaning that the whole thing is unfair without offering any specific solutions or even details of what the problems are.

I wonder if he had faith in his teammates to do anything, he'd be more willing to pass. e.g. that 4 man break, where all he had to do was slide the ball left to Fraser (I think), if it was Wilson, I'd have fancied him to square it. If he can get used to the more fluid attacking unit he could be great. The goal we scored against Spurs was because he drew 2 players, Manquillo had a free overlap and put in a great ball for Wilson. That is eminently repeatable.

Honestly, I've played football for 20+ years at the highest level* and the referee stops play for something like that 99% of the time. The perfect opportunity was there when the ball was cleared out. 0.99% of the time the other team plays it out and the rest you're playing Liverpool. There's just no reason to allow play like that to go on, scoring against a team with a player on the ground in the middle of the box and another scrambling to get up and back into some sort of position is not competitive and nor does it promote good sportsmanship. * - that I'm capable of playing whilst often winning

I doubt, really hope anyway, the tory party would not vote her in. She is literally the worst choice of PM available and even in 2 years I dread to think the damage she could do. She's a different kettle of fish to Johnson, she has a truly evil ideology. Basically an incompetent psychopath. On the plus side I do think that could well be the end of the Conservative party for good.

I honestly think Joelinton has got what it takes based on his games since Howe came in.

I think quite early on it became clear disaffected tories were going to switch to the Lib Dems and that was the best way to unseat them was for Labour voters to follow suit.

What a plonker Jenas is. If you don’t knoe how bad a head injury is then it does surely have to be the other way round. ”He fractured his skull but you didn’t know how bad it was…”

The limp he's putting on now. He's like me when a teacher unexpectedly threw me into an 800m race against other schools. I fake limped the first lap and as I ran past he goes "if you can't be bothered, then just stop." So I did.

Size is large wok

If it had been a Liverpool player down or even if it had been Hayden, and we'd come away with the ball to counter, Dean would have stopped it cos he wouldn't have allowed play to go up the other end with a player down holding his head. So it's absolutely fucking absurd that he allowed play to continue when they were putting the ball back into the area where the player was down holding his head.

Mint that as an NFT and you will be a millionaire in minutes