Liverpool suffered their second defeat of the season as they were beaten 4-0 by Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Sunday. Luka Modric opened the scoring in the 7th minute with a fantastic strike before Reds playmaker Charlie Adam was booked for a challenge on the Croatian. In the 18th minute Andy Carroll fed strike partner Luis Suarez and the Uruguayan poked the ball into the net but it was ruled out off for offside. Then in the 28th minute, Adam went to collect a looping ball but as he put his foot up to control it he caught Tottenham’s Scott Parker above the knee. Referee Mike Jones showed Adam his second yellow card and the Scot was sent from the field.
At first glance the tackle looked to be reckless by Adam, however the replay clearly shows that Adam was looking at the ball and completely unaware of Parker’s presence. He lifted his leg to control the ball and caught Parker above the knee accidentally. Admittedly the rules do state that a player should be sent off for catching another above the knee, but in this case common sense should have prevailed and Tottenham should have received a free-kick with no further action taken. Mike Jones was very close to the play and should have seen that Adam had no intention of going for Parker, it was just an unfortunate collision.
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Later in the match Martin Skrtel, who was playing at right-back because of injuries to Glen Johnson and Martin Kelly, was sent off after collecting his second yellow card for going through the back of Gareth Bale. Skrtel had struggled to contain the Welshman all game with Tottenham’s left-winger beating the Slovak four times in the opening 15 minutes. Jermaine Defoe made it 2-0 to the home side in the 66th minute before his shot from the edge of the box was parried by Pepe Reina and Emanuel Adebayor was able to convert following a clever piece of skill. Liverpool’s frustration showed as Luis Suarez was booked for sarcastically applauding a refereeing decision before Adebayor got his second of the game in the last minute to make the score Tottenham 4 Liverpool 0.
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it was a sending off and could have being a straight red.
Your team on paper is excellent (Charlie Adams was excellent agianst spurs last year on both games)but you rarely play like a team. Rumours on the radio today suggest some liverpool players do not rate Carroll seems to be not the way a top four team does it.
Liverpool will only get top four if Spurs and Arse mess it up
Great background picture of the Liverpool fans by the way. Works well.
are you serious?? it was a straight red tackle, could have ruined the season for Parker.
Suarez should have gone too..
Well, let’s be honest. It definitely wasn’t a straight red at least.
Must be tough being a ref. Stick to the letter of the law and people say common sense should prevail, use common sense and they say there’s no consistency because a different ref made a different decision earlier in the season.
Sometimes you get a raw deal with refs, other times you got to man up and say you just were’nt good enough. It really doesnt help when a manager makes a big deal of a meeting with the referees chief as a fore shadowing for being the victim for the rest of the season. Thankfully this ref didnt fall into the trap of thinking that applying the laws of the game to liverpool could be misinterpreted as repurcussions of that meeting as KD had obviousley hoped.
A lot of emphasis has been put on the idea that Charlie was looking at the ball and didn’t intentially hurt Parker. I do hope that nobody in football actually does foul another player intending to hurt him. Fouls are mostly as in this case of being late/slow with the tackle!
or am I being naiive??
They are just acknowledging the fact that the tackle was without doubt not aimed at Parker. You surely must have seen deliberate fouls. You usually get cards for deliberately fouling a player – i.e to stop him getting away, or even to hurt a player (let him know that he is going to feel pain every time you both go into a challenge – so that he wimps out the next time and makes your job easier – this happens). Otherwise, you get cards for deliberately challenging high – not aimed specifically at anyone, but ensuring that if anyone nicks the ball from you, they again will feel the pain from it. It is intimidation…. Yes you do get cards for late challenges too, but normally when a player is about to be through to attack the box or goal – yes this applies to Charlie Adam’s challenge too. To sum up (long answer I know), Adam was probably given a yellow for the combination of high challenge, late challenge AND preventing Parker’s attack into the box.
‘Admittedly the rules do state that a player should be sent off for catching another above the knee’…
Makes your own point null & void.
The second tackle was a straight red, so Adam was very lucky to only get a yellow for it. So sad that a player who is so dirty and lacking in talent plays for a once great club.
Why do people say that it was a straight red? It obviously wasn’t. Not a professional foul (players covering), not an intentional foul (Parker wasn’t in his sights) it was just wreckless. Yellow max. Souness, Redknapp Jnr and co did not even consider it to be a red. Ex-pros who played the game. Put bias aside (I am a yid too), we won the game excellently, the guy got sent off anyway so let’s move on.
Tony, look at the foul closely again, Adams eyes drift down as Parker is coming in, he knew he was there and made no intent to pull out. Straight red.
Spurs were the better side, on the day, even at 11-11. I can’t argue with both Adam’s & Skrtel’s stupid 2nd yellows either. But IMO the ref only played to the letter of the law for one team. Spurs committed 14 fouls and had 1 (unwarranted IMO) booking. Liverpool only committed 9 fouls yet had 4 yellow & 2 reds. In the 2nd half Jones gave Liverpool a free for deliberate handball (he had to presume it was deliberate to award a free). This is supposed to warrant a yellow card but he failed to show one. He also awarded Suarez a free (looked a dive to me) for a tackle from behind but again failed to issue a yellow. He was certainly card happy-but only to Liverpool players.
You are trying to tell me that EVERY handball warrants a free kick AND yellow card? Of course not. It is only yellow when you use the hand to stop ball going through to the opposition’s attack. I cannot remember the actual incident tho.
Steve – just because Spurs committed a few more fouls does not mean they deserved more yellows. The fouls that Spurs conceded were generally challenging Carol in the air when Liverpool were punting it up to him. By contrast Liverpool’s fouls were generally either dangerous (Adams’ second) or cynical (Adams’ first).
The foul on Saurez just outside the Spurs penalty area wasn’t a tackle from behind, Saurez just backed in to the Spurs player and threw himself on the ground. He was more than lucky just to get a free kick for it.
The only things that the ref got wrong on Sunday was missing Saurez’s blatent elbow on Parker (would’ve been him sent off) and also Parker having a kick out at a Liverpool player in the second half (would’ve been a definite yellow and maybe even a harsh red).
The truth of the matter was that Spurs played football with pace and purpose and Liverpool couldn’t live with it and therefore resorted to holding and kicking to try to slow the game down. If I were you I would stop moaning at the ref and start moaning at King Kenny for picking that right side up against Bale and paying £35 million for a player who has little going for him but his size.
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