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This time however, he loses the match, man utd score first, but after the goal is scored, the spurs players are surrounding a certain teammate raising their hands, the goal is ruled out for a foul by McTominay on Son and as far as I am concerned, if his hand touches his eyes then it’s a foul and no goal, if not, it’s a solid goal, but it doesn’t matter either way because its not a clear and obvious error.

This time, Mourinho does not take kindly to his words and either takes it literally or just uses it as a deflection to the actual result, he goes on and on about moral honesty and how far you most go to feed your child.

I’m a life long/diehard Manchester United fan, and in all my years of supporting this club, I never felt so elated as I did after the Spurs game.

The 6-1 really hurt and it was the perfect revenge served cold, what a second half performance.

Maybe it’s the mourinho effect!

If Dave, Winchester Spurs in this morning’s mailbox thinks McTominey’s hand brushing Son’s face was “exactly the same action” as Lamela’s on Tierney in the NLD then I would suggest he’s looking at both incidents through very rose tinted spectacles.McTominey was past Son, it is Son who tries to grab McTominey and he instinctively puts a hand back to stop Son doing so, he had no idea where his hand would ‘land’ and it turned out his fingertips brushed Son’s face.

Now I realise as an Arsenal fan I might be accused of being one-eyed as well, and I can see in Lamela’s case another ref may have given some discretion and not produced a 2nd red – but to suggest both incidents are identical is absolutely farcical.

They are not necessarily at any disadvantage because, if I understood correctly, thats just raw data about overturned decisions – those decisions may or may not have been correctly overturned.

I don’t actually believe that Liverpool do get that favourable treatment (…Well, maybe) but it’s really just a demonstration of the uselessness  of the raw overturned decision data, or at the very least a suggestion that it could be evidence a different, less favourable, point than the one you think you’re proving.

When you compare it, for example, to the technology used in cricket for LBWs, or using sound to assess whether a ball clipped the edge of a bat (which could maybe be used to pinpoint the moment the ball was struck?), it’s absolutely laughable.

Enter Mourinho.

I was looking at the images of him approaching Luke Shaw – whilst Ole is in frame delighted at the win and, of course, having Shaw as probably the best LB in the league right now – and you can see the utterly broken soul (or whatever he has in place of a soul) in the mans face.

Because that man, Mr Mourinho, has pushed me over the edge?

Just know I’m prime for a relapse once he’s sacked when Spurs are inevitably 16th come 10 games in next season.

After the match against Madrid in which our moustachioed Alisson was again made to look average, I had a think… has any goalkeeper brought in since 2009 by Liverpool actually improved.

Klopp assessed and determined we needed to spend big on Alisson.

Now I’ve often thought Alisson makes goalkeeping look so basic.

In fact I’d go as far as saying Alisson is one of the worst when it comes to making diving saves?

Achterberg guiding Alisson back to his incredible best!

1) I think it was around this time last year that my dad first asked what, at the time, seemed like the question of a dribbling idiot: “Is Alisson actually any good?”  Naturally I responded to say that as the greatest goalie on the planet and all round demi-god he was, you know, a bit useful. However, at the same time it did set off a small alarm bell in my mind..

Time has since moved on and obviously Alisson has suffered the immense sadness of losing his own father so it feels wrong to doubt a man when he is down. Nevertheless I will anyway by asking a) when was the last time Alisson made a really good save?  You know one of those where you think “How on earth did he save that???”,  ii) when was the last time Alisson had a really commanding game – caught crosses, dominated the box, exuded confidence? and iii) is he, to put not too fine a point on it, carrying a bit of extra timber lately that’s diminishing his agility??

2) Seeing Gareth Southgate in the stands as Liverpool played Villa at the weekend a thought occurred – if he was there to keep an eye on a Liverpool defender perhaps it wasn’t Trent.

Could he be a (really, really, really) dramatic late new entry on Football365’s Euro 2020 ladder?  Whisper it about someone who was playing second division German football last year and apparently only stayed at Liverpool over the summer because no one really wanted to buy him, but, on current form he’d be a better bet that Mings, Coady, Dier etc, wouldn’t he.

Paul (LFC fan obviously hoping that Alisson makes me look like the dribbling idiot by performing heroics against Madrid this week).

Paul (Spurs), that was really quite brilliant.

The English Premier League (as it’s sold around the world) is far from English, and that’s what’s made it the best league in the world?

A goal-(or penalty box)-tending law would probably need to be introduced, and football tactics would need a major rethink (the pitch would be dramatically stretched).

And thinking on the way VAR is currently being used, I think the future of football is clear: players will be coached to go down, scream, and stay down at every potential opportunity.

I mean, tell me Spurs players weren’t coached that way yesterday.

But if you lay there just long enough for the entire Spurs team to remonstrate with the referee, you might, MIGHT save a goal.

It’s an excellent strategy, because referees are human beings.

Do they want a spectacle where we hear players screaming every time they’re touched.

Go watch any other level of football, and this simply doesn’t happen!

Players are cheating because referees are being influenced by it?

Imagine a world where we have two versions of football, like we do in rugby.

The current version of football, and then a version with no VAR and one which allows contact.

I saw an interview with Son last night after the game, I didn’t catch the reporters name but it sounded sort of informal so guessing it was one of the local Spurs reporters.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player so dejected in a postgame interview, if I was the Spurs PR rep I wouldn’t have let him anywhere near a camera, he was clearly very upset and looked to be holding back tears.

This was probably the happiest guy in the league for the last few years (in appearance anyway, never really know how someone is doing), always smiling and looking like he really enjoyed playing, and now he’s a husk of his former self.

Basically all the actual training taking place is for physical recovery so the players can endure the games, there is no time for on-field tactical work.

Finally, just wanted to give a round of applause to whoever was channelling Jack Nicholson, Colonel Nathan Jessop, and Jose Mourinho this morning.

Was thinking, what other sport has the level of play acting, diving, screaming, feigning of injuries to gain an advantage that football has.

Football has become embarrassing

I’m not normally one for rule changes every year but football is not doing anything to challenge cheating, its encouraging it

How much has Mourinho pocketed in pay-offs

Ignoring his patchy form at the moment, their current – European Championship and Nations League winning – manager, Fernando Santos, is actually doing quite well with the enormous amount of talent available

To bring in Mourinho, would more than likely bring about under-performance and failure

We have seen from his first year in United, and the briefest spells at Spurs, that he is obviously not a bad football manager

It’s all about self-preservation

It’s always about how the players need to do better, that he has the trophies to back it up, that it’s the same coach, different players etc

This might have worked the odd time – players responding and challenging him, showing their ability on the pitch, but it will evidently fail, because it is toxic

Now, it’s all about throwing them under the bus, that they’re not doing what he says, that they’re not good enough for him

Mourinho lost his temper, blamed innocent physios publically, which led to the (one) female physio losing her job after alleged sexist abuse from Mourinho

There was no Mourinho taking the flack and protecting the ship, he threw people under the bus, and it all seemed to fall away

Mourinho was no longer protecting people, but protecting himself

Mourinho always came across as a dick, but before, there was a certain charm in it, because everyone knew what he was doing, it seemed like an act that worked

So, yeah, essentially to summarize, Mourinho is a self-preserving dick, and if he wants to be successful in management again, he needs to change his personality

Anyway my football point: was listening to 5Live last night whilst doing the ironing, Mark Lawro was moaning about Arsenal still trying to score the perfect goal

5 minutes later Arsenal score a great goal with great build up and he spends the next 15 mins waxing lyrical about how it was perfect and how it is the blueprint for how football should be played

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Mourinho does not dominate in quite the same way as when he first graced the PL