Aston Villa v Liverpool - Post-Match Thread

[RamboandBruno]

Steve Hunt scored against Watford, I was one of the 12k or so watching.

Thanks for the reminder, I was at all those three, well all the home games as a 13 year old season ticket holder. Child cruelty but self inflicted as went with my mates

We did all three as well, me and our kid, he was 18 and I was ten.

We were obviously very shit that season and the preceding couple of years, but I thought we had some good players, I have a lot more affinity with a lot of that team, than the 2015/16 mob.

[LeeB]

Steve Hunt scored against Watford, I was one of the 12k or so watching.

Thanks for the reminder, I was at all those three, well all the home games as a 13 year old season ticket holder. Child cruelty but self inflicted as went with my mates

We did all three as well, me and our kid, he was 18 and I was ten.

We were obviously very shit that season and the preceding couple of years, but I thought we had some good players, I have a lot more affinity with a lot of that team, than the 2015/16 mob.

Very bad managers and an absolute bellend for a chairman.

Which actually fits for both relegations.

[Concrete Tom]

If the video circulating on twitter is real, I don't think David Coote will be refereeing any Liverpool games, or any other games for that matter, in the future.

Still doesn't explain his general poor performance towards both them AND us on Saturday though.

EDIT: Adding link to some recognised media:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/11/11/david-coote-referee-appears-rant-jurgen-klopp-liverpool/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/david-coote-liverpool-premier-league-34083739

[Brend'Watkins]

Still doesn't explain what the VAR officials were doing or not doing as the case is.

[cdbearsfan]

Don't really have much of a problem with any of Saturday's decisions tbh. The shirt pull was only after a Villa player had done it first and either of the Watkins or Torres ones would have been incredibly soft.

[Somniloquism]

The "empire of the kop" reporting it decided he doesn't like Liverpool because he apparently waved "no foul" for Bailey's challenge (more then likely waving play on as they were three against Emi) and then moaned because he was the VAR for the foul of Pickford on Van Djik (even though Van Djik was offside) so no foul could be given when he did his ACL in. Weird how much that was being marked as foul and no commentator moaned when Ben Mee does the exact same tackle multiple times.

[LeeB]

If the video circulating on twitter is real, I don't think David Coote will be refereeing any Liverpool games, or any other games for that matter, in the future.

Still doesn't explain his general poor performance towards both them AND us on Saturday though.

EDIT: Adding link to some recognised media:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/11/11/david-coote-referee-appears-rant-jurgen-klopp-liverpool/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/david-coote-liverpool-premier-league-34083739

No need to reference his nationality, that's the sign of a wanker.

Which is a shame as otherwise he was spot on, Klopp was a ******.

[Monty]

Don't really have much of a problem with any of Saturday's decisions tbh. The shirt pull was only after a Villa player had done it first and either of the Watkins or Torres ones would have been incredibly soft.

Don't get the latter at all. It's a very straightforward shirt pull. Halfway line it's a foul and a yellow!

[wolfman999]

Still doesn't explain what the VAR officials were doing or not doing as the case is.

It was Stuart Attwell I believe. If so, that's all the explanation necessary! More mistakes as VAR than any other apparently.

[LeeB]

Still doesn't explain what the VAR officials were doing or not doing as the case is.

It was Stuart Attwell I believe. If so, that's all the explanation necessary! More mistakes as VAR than any other apparently.

I wouldn't task either of them with more than delivering papers

[jon collett]

Still doesn't explain what the VAR officials were doing or not doing as the case is.

It was Stuart Attwell I believe. If so, that's all the explanation necessary! More mistakes as VAR than any other apparently.

As I’ve stated several times pretty sure he’s a Cov fan who hates Villa!

[Gareth]

Thought Tierney was VAR?

[astonvilla82]

The contact with Ollie was probably enough for a penalty in my opinion, but his theatrics almost assured it wasn't going to get given. No ref wants to feel like he's being conned, and that's what it looked like with him going down in that over the top manner.

As with the West Ham game against us

[Percy McCarthy]

Thought Tierney was VAR?

That’s what they said on commentary.

[lovejoy]

Just watched Sky's Ref Watch re the 'foul' on Pau and as expected they all reckon no pen, which of course is nonsense, if the exact situation had been reversed and Liverpool were claiming a pen, would the ref have given it, of course he would and would VAR have backed him up, of course they would.

The 14 managers/ head coaches of the non SKY 6 clubs should get together, ASAP and arrange a meeting with The Referee Association, to demand that any shirt pulling, even for a second, is a pen. We've gotta to a stop to this nonsene.

Out of interest what possible reason did they give that it wasn’t a penalty?

Either the tape is fake or
Shirt pulling is no longer a foul

Which?