LIVERPOOL vs CHELSEA - Malouda dives for penalty
Sunday 19th August 2007
The only person who can possibly have missed Florent Malouda’s antics at Anfield was referee Rob Styles. For the avoidance of any doubt whatsoever that Liverpool were cheated out of three points by Jose Mourinho’s “naive team” of non-divers and soft-touches (!), referee Rob Styles has been withdrawn from the next round of Premier League games, and Referees’ chief Keith Hackett has called Raphael Benitez to apologise for the mistake that cost the Reds the victory. None-the-less Chelsea fans may well feel as if some meansure of justice was belatedly served after they went out of the 2005 Champions League semi-final at Anfield following a controversial goal by the Reds…(which can be found in our Classic Right Results section).
The Right Result is Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0.
Entry Filed under: Latest Incidents
5 Comments Add your own
1. Bill | August 20th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Don’t think you can call a European Cup semi exit on a par with 3 pts at the start of the season but there is some symmetry to it I guess! What I will say is that I have lost all respect for Mourinho after his stupid comments. I like the guy and think in general he was good for the EPL, shook it up a bit by rattling Sir & the Prof. BUT what he said about his team being naive, having no divers and playing football in a pure way was a complete disgrace. If he believes that then he truly is the enemy of football - a comment which I felt was unjustified previously. Chelsea are a good side and you have to admire the back to back titles and what he’s achieved, but the truth is that they are a hugely physical side, with no small degree of cynicism for good measure, and they do not play football in a pure way at all. They play to win and it does not matter how they achieve the result - pragmatism is JM’s stock-in-trade. In fact having listened to him after the game I can understand why Lampard and co seem oblivious to what people think about them and always feel they are in the right and hard done by, because they are brainwashed into believing this ridiculous ****. If he means it, which I have no doubt he does then for me it is actually quite frightening! Over and out.
2. Winky | August 20th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Amazing how things always seem to go Chelsea’s way, and amazing how gracelessly they seem to accept the luck they so often seem to get. And as for the Euro semi, there is no proof either way on whether they were hard done by. In fact have you ever seen them lose (or win) and behave with any humility? No, me neither!
3. Peter | August 20th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I just got back from holiday and haven’t seen the pen shout - anyone got a link to a replay? Seems like youtube haven’t got the latest stuff anymore. The papers were full of it on the flight back, but then they always are!
4. Alex | August 21st, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Mourniho’s post match comments were farcical, but Gerrard’s post match whinge was bad too. A week back after he scored the goal (a real beauty to be fair) from a free kick that should never have been awarded (by Rob Styles), he said that it all evens out in the end. I guess he wasn’t expecting it to even out so fast.
5. James | August 28th, 2007 at 3:13 am
For how long do you and chelsea intend to drag on this nonsense about Garcia’s goal in the semi final for which there is no evidence either way ? I’d remind both you and chelsea fans that they had no right to be playing in semi against Liverpool after carvalho wrestled victor valdes to the floor against barcelona as terry ’scored’ the winner to put them through.
Either way Liverpool fans would argue what happened in the semi final was justice for lampard assaulting Alonso’s ankle and getting away with it scot free on new years day 2005, along with the tiago handball and makelele wrestling Pongolle to the floor all under the watchful eye of mike riley. Since then we’ve had robben acting like he’s been shot and getting Reina sent off after gudjohnsen handballed, essien trying to end hamann’s career, Kuyt wrongly being ruled offside last season and a litany of penalties that should have gone Liverpool’s way.
chelsea remain very much in debt to Liverpool as far as the ‘decisions evening out’ bank goes.
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