Seven Days That Proved Once Again Strange Forces Are At Work
This
time last week, nobody had the slightest idea that certain forces would ensure
that Liverpool Football Club and several of its first team players would be
pulled through the mire once more. We
were after all looking forward to our trip to Fulham on the Monday evening and
the possibility of another major win.
Since
then though, Fulham have had a change of manager and the team that stepped onto
the pitch had a different mentality to the one we had met during the previous
season and were determined to win. What we did not know, was that they would
have the help of the referee to ensure this happened.
It
was one of those games, where it did not matter what happened because the
referee appeared to either be colour-blind or indeed a supporter of the home
team. Every decision went Fulham's way
and indeed Luis Suarez appeared to be singled out once again for some rough and
tumble treatment. There were tackles and
kicks that were ignored and he was also goaded by the crowd, so much so, that
he finds himself on the other end of another FA Charge. A charge, that in my opinion appears to have
been as manufactured as the decisions Fulham were given to ensure they won the
game.
The
club were also hit with a disorderly charge, because the rest of the team, knew
the red card awarded to Jay Spearing, was wrong and as anyone would in any
situation, surrounded the person in charge and tried to make him see
reason. As far as I am aware no foul
language was used or indeed any disrespect aimed at the referee, so again, it
looks as though this was manufactured to please other parties within the FA.
Who
these parties are, I am sure you are aware because still hanging over Luis
Suarez is a racism charge. A charge that
is taking too long to prove, because again it has been manufactured to try and
ensure a good player is stopped from playing in the premiership. A player that could ultimately, ruin the
season for those particular parties by ensuring that he helped Liverpool show
that they were on the way back.
Now
Luis has remained as focused as he can on his career, although his goal scoring
exploits appeared to have become a thing of the past. He has either misjudged his kick, with the
ball going either over the post or indeed wide and I suspect it had got to the
point, where he began to question his own ability. An Ability that will always be there and will
one day arrive once more.
Kenny
has always stuck by his man. A man who many class as the club's only striker
and said that he believed the goals would return in time. This afternoon, was that time and after what
was a Liverpool dominated first half that simply lacked the goals, the jinx was
finally broken. The team emerged from
the half time break to score within a minute and half of the restart. The scorer of the goal was the one and only
Luis Suarez and the relief that showed on his face was felt by everyone.
Liverpool
was now in front and for the next 45 minutes the trials and tribulations of the
past seven days were forgotten to a certain degree. Referee Lee Mason did make a couple of
mistakes but to give him some credit he did protect Luis Suarez a lot better
than some of his colleagues have in the past.
But
until the FA takes its referees and certain other parties to task, then players
such as Luis Suarez will have to suffer weeks or indeed months of wondering
whether their career will be interrupted because of the spiteful actions of
other parties.
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Lee Mason's performance yesterday was as bad as any referee we have had this season. He booked Daniel Agger for a trip on a player turning away from the goal 10 yards out then failed to book two qpr players for tripping Charlie Adam as he surged past them 2 yards outside the box. He repeatedly allowed Suarez to be kicked and tripped with no censure and yet did not book Suarez for simulation. He denied QPR a penalty when their forward committed an outrageous dive but failed to book the player only to book Craig Bellamy with no apparent reason. He managed to go for 96 minutes without booking any QPR players. The low point of the game was when he awarded us a corner to howls of laughter from the Kop only to immediately rectify his decision by blowing for a non existent foul when the kick was taken. He was utterly incompetent.
Good article but you don't know how right you are. If you really knew what was holdig us back and blocking us, you wouldn't believe it.
So Margus, don't leave us in suspense! Who is holding us back and blocking us?