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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been warned ahead of this afternoon’s Merseyside derby against Everton that his continual berating of match officials will not help his team’s cause.
Referees’ chief Mike Riley and his members are angered by Rodgers continuing to claim his club are victimised by officials, regarding it as a tactic to seek an advantage.
Ahead of today’s crunch match at Goodison Park, the Liverpool boss has defiantly repeated his frustrations over the way his club’s games are officiated, sarcastically remarking he would have to take a holiday when his striker Luis Suarez got a decision in his favour.
“Brendan Rodgers isn’t the first manager to try it on,” said a referees’ source. “He has been reminded that Kenny Dalglish did the same thing as Liverpool manager last season and it didn’t work for him.
“It won’t work for Brendan, either. There have been phone calls which have relayed that message. It is pretty clear.”
Premier League referees, who are looked after by Professional Game Match Officials Limited, are becoming increasingly resentful at the way they believe they are being used as scapegoats by managers for poor results.
Rodgers has been strident in his defence of controversial Uruguay striker Suarez, who has been booked for diving three times since he joined Liverpool at the start of last year.
Rodgers blasted referee Mike Jones for not awarding Suarez a penalty against Norwich last month. When the Uruguayan was clearly seen to have dived the following weekend against Stoke City, however, Rodgers claimed not to have seen it.
He continued his theme ahead of today’s derby game when he said: “One of these days, we will get a decision.”
Everton, though, clearly felt Suarez’s over-reaction to a tackle in a derby match last season cost Jack Rodwell a red card and Goodison boss David Moyes has hit back at the striker’s antics, saying: “He has history. It will turn the supporters away.”
Rodgers was appointed after Kenny Dalglish created a PR disaster by supporting Suarez in his racial abuse case with Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. But the Ulsterman, who has been mocked as football’s answer to fictitious television windbag David Brent from The Office for his appearances in a fly-on-the-wall documentary Being: Liverpool, has also been strident in sticking up for his club’s interests.
Last night, he again appeared to try to put pressure on today’s referee, Andre Marriner.
“It is so important for the referees to stay calm and not get excited,” said Rodgers. “I’ve seen it over the years, some of the tackles in these games is incredible. My last memory was a tackle of [Everton’s] Steven Pienaar that was up around the top of the guy’s thigh. I don’t believe he even got booked for it, which was absolutely incredible.
“So there’s a responsibility there for the refs to make sure itÕs a football game and not a rugby game. - Daily Mail
Referees’ chief Mike Riley and his members are angered by Rodgers continuing to claim his club are victimised by officials, regarding it as a tactic to seek an advantage.
Ahead of today’s crunch match at Goodison Park, the Liverpool boss has defiantly repeated his frustrations over the way his club’s games are officiated, sarcastically remarking he would have to take a holiday when his striker Luis Suarez got a decision in his favour.
“Brendan Rodgers isn’t the first manager to try it on,” said a referees’ source. “He has been reminded that Kenny Dalglish did the same thing as Liverpool manager last season and it didn’t work for him.
“It won’t work for Brendan, either. There have been phone calls which have relayed that message. It is pretty clear.”
Premier League referees, who are looked after by Professional Game Match Officials Limited, are becoming increasingly resentful at the way they believe they are being used as scapegoats by managers for poor results.
Rodgers has been strident in his defence of controversial Uruguay striker Suarez, who has been booked for diving three times since he joined Liverpool at the start of last year.
Rodgers blasted referee Mike Jones for not awarding Suarez a penalty against Norwich last month. When the Uruguayan was clearly seen to have dived the following weekend against Stoke City, however, Rodgers claimed not to have seen it.
He continued his theme ahead of today’s derby game when he said: “One of these days, we will get a decision.”
Everton, though, clearly felt Suarez’s over-reaction to a tackle in a derby match last season cost Jack Rodwell a red card and Goodison boss David Moyes has hit back at the striker’s antics, saying: “He has history. It will turn the supporters away.”
Rodgers was appointed after Kenny Dalglish created a PR disaster by supporting Suarez in his racial abuse case with Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. But the Ulsterman, who has been mocked as football’s answer to fictitious television windbag David Brent from The Office for his appearances in a fly-on-the-wall documentary Being: Liverpool, has also been strident in sticking up for his club’s interests.
Last night, he again appeared to try to put pressure on today’s referee, Andre Marriner.
“It is so important for the referees to stay calm and not get excited,” said Rodgers. “I’ve seen it over the years, some of the tackles in these games is incredible. My last memory was a tackle of [Everton’s] Steven Pienaar that was up around the top of the guy’s thigh. I don’t believe he even got booked for it, which was absolutely incredible.
“So there’s a responsibility there for the refs to make sure itÕs a football game and not a rugby game. - Daily Mail
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Liverpool team news. Jones and Enrique start. Reina on the bench. Johnson out injured.
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The only change from the expected team is Enrique instead of Johnson. Brad Jones starts. More on http://bit.ly/L67kox#LFC
Liverpool team news. Jones and Enrique start. Reina on the bench. Johnson out injured.
LFC Transfer Spec
The only change from the expected team is Enrique instead of Johnson. Brad Jones starts. More on http://bit.ly/L67kox
Come on Enrique ... MAKE IT HAPPEN.
How did Enrique get ahead of Downing in the pecking order for left back?😕
May have been a late injury to Johnson.
Team was correct otherwise
Yeh, run Forrest, run
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Confirmed#LFC subs: Reina, Carragher, Shelvey, Coates, Downing, Henderson, Assaidi.
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Maybe Enrique returns to the form we saw before December last year? He knows he's playing for his career here -
As Eminem said, will the real Jose please stand up?
As Eminem said, will the real Jose please stand up?
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What a biased article. In what sense didn't it 'work' for Kenny? And if refs want respect they should cut it this sort of anonymous nonsense.
Thanks, mate!
Needless to say Riley never mentioned his old mate Alex
Real, what level fan am I if I go to the pub to watch? Bear in mind I have to walk to the pub and its raining and stuff.
I'm well bloody nervous. I wonder who is going to get sent off today?
Have a horrible feeling we are going to get hammered today. Hopefully not.
No striker on the bench hope suarez is not kicked out of the field .
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