24 Jan 2022 12:19:45
My view is that Jota is stationery and so is a pen.

{Ed025's Note - then maybe sky sports should get rid of dermot gallagher and give you the job rigsby.. :)

1.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 12:43:00
The refs ought to explain these decisions. I do think that goalkeepers seem to think they can just wipe out a forward which leads to injuries, some season defining like Van Dyke. Also since when can a player do what they will to another player when they do not have the ball? The goalkeeper took Jota out - in my opinion a clear foul.

2.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 13:28:45
Nvr a peno jota leans into the keeper Lookin for the foul! Very harsh peno if it was against us you’d never hear the end of it!
We won and got out of jail I’ll take scrappy win all day once we win!

3.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 13:44:19
Never never a pen but as Jay says it was daylight robbery and we got outa jail. So 3 points in the bag and say nothing 🤫.

4.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 14:08:32
So if Jota isn't stationery and neither is a pen, do you think it should be rubbed out if the rulers say so.

5.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 14:30:24
I think you're just papering over the cracks there Rigsby. I'd have given it but I'm not the ruler. Maybe it should be chalked off as it's not like the game was a dead rubber.

6.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 14:38:34
If it’s for us it’s a pen.

If it’s against us we are in uproar and it’s never a pen.

Similar to City won the league cup a few years on the bounce and it’s a Mickey Mouse cup.

We’re in the final and it’s a big domestic cup 😜🤣.

7.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 12:44:22
Ed25 as much as I can understand why pen should not have been given, Dermott Gallaher is not the one to be holding up as the bastion of wisdom regarding ref. decisions. Rigsby may not be fit to do Gallagher's job BUT neither is Gallagher himself, based on his outrageous takes on ref decisions in the past.

{Ed025's Note - im just saying to rigsby that his interpretation was red tinted oli, it was clear that jota changed direction and veered into the keeper intentionally, you know it...we all know it mate..

8.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 14:10:17
Don't think it was a penalty but the keeper did cause the situation where a decision could be made so questions there.

However Ed025 definitely on the wind up if your suggestion Dermot has any credibility on sly sports! changes his mind every week!

{Ed025's Note - but he is a well renowned referee triangle, you would not take your jewellery to be appraised at a coal merchant now would you mate?.. :)

9.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 15:02:27
Spot ok JK!

10.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 15:08:16
I’ll admit it I thought Jota went looking for it when I first saw it. He really doesn’t though, he misses the flick over the keeper and goes to move past him. I noticed it on about the 12th time of looking because I watched Jotas face. When he misses the ball he checks back to the direction of the ball but by that time he’s collided. It’s one of those where it’s not a dive, it’s not really a foul and it’s nobodies fault who was involved apart from the ref. If he’d managed to make contact with the ball for the flick over the keeper it’s a stonewall penalty. But he doesn’t, it’s a strange one.

11.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 15:22:32
It’s the never ending inconsistency that grates most. I don’t think it was a pen, yet VAR intervened and gave it. If nothing else it wasn’t a “clear and obvious error”. In the Chelsea Spurs game a goal was disallowed due to a blatant dive by Silva, a clear an obvious error, yet VAR did nothing. And this happens constantly.

12.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 16:40:08
Firstly I don't think it's a pen purely because the ball had long gone and it was just a coming together. Jota initiated the contact.

However, my problem is a few weeks back we weren't given a penalty and their excuse was because the attacker initiated contact.

the sheer lack of consistancy is my biggest gripe and it's not even VAR you can blame. it is one incompetent ref leading another that leaves an abosloute ****show.

Plus clear and obvious has clearly gone out the window again (time limits need implementing imo) and for the love of god stop slowing the incidents down!

13.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 16:41:34
I wonder whether Rigsby was winding people up. If Jota was stationery could have been a pen or pencil! If he was stationary it's a debatable penalty. 🤔.

14.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 16:44:48
It was one of the worst VAR decisions this season. I can’t believe it’s even a debate.

15.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 16:45:07
Whether the pen was given or not we still works of won 2-1, maybe its a decision Jota deserved after the Stonewallwr was not given against Spurs, better than Figo don't you know.

16.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 16:30:35
Ed25, I don't know if "We all know this" cos a lot of LFC fans actually think it is a pen so speaking in absolutes means very little here. Now IMO, I am not surprised it was given cos I thought the Goaitha was a bit clumsy as he clattered into Jota whether he did it on purpose or not. That said had it not been given, I would have understood it as well. Moral of the story for me? 50/ 50.

{Ed025's Note - fair enough oli..

17.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 19:00:48
Sorry Rigsby, missed your second post which went over most posters' heads. Some of the spelling on blogs leaves a lot to be desired.

18.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 19:44:49
For me If a goalkeeper or a defender goes to ground in box and makes contact with forward they have to get ball. for me it's a pen. And if it was against us I'd say the same.

19.) 24 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 21:03:23
I wasn't sure if it was a pen, or rather why they gave it, until this morning when i saw an angle which showed his movement is to transfer weight because he’d missed the ball but thought he could still get it, which he easily could have.

It was pretty much in the same movement as his flick for the ball and if you watch at full speed there is no time for deception. It was fully instinctive. Watch it as if you think he was to head for the ball and you’ll see his movement was natural. I mean, where do you put your foot to change direction? Not straight ahead, that's for certain, but to the side.

I think the main thing to come from this one is that we need to hear from the refs what their reasoning was. They certainly don’t just look at a situation and decide arbitrarily. They are connected and converse for a reason, so let us know why they come to a decision and people may look more favourably.

20.) 25 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 23:26:46
I looked at the replay at least ten times. In slow motion too. From behind and looking from the ref's vantage point, you hardly notice Jota changing direction. But when looking at it from the opposite side, the GK's point of view, it's clear as daylight that Jota changed direction and went looking for the contact. So that explains the two opposite decisions from the ref. But I have no idea which one he used to make his final decision. No penalty for me. Since it was not the deciding goal, was it as big a deal, anyway?

21.) 25 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 12:15:17
Keeper slid and was out of control and went straight into Jota, anywhere else on the pitch it's a foul, no matter how soft.

{Ed025's Note - hmmm, he actually veers to his right to instigate the collision lancaster, clever though...very clever mate..