It wasn’t Liverpool’s best performance today, but referee Craig Pawson gave us absolutely nothing.
There were three penalty shouts in the second-half, all of which were waved away, and a succession of 50/50s that went the way of Jose Mourinho’s men.
He also stopped the game for Chris Smalling’s knee injury, with Liverpool in a promising position, which is simply not in the laws of the game.
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Pawson is the same ref who gave Everton the penalty at Anfield earlier this term, too, which cost us two points.
We arguably didn’t deserve anything out of the game after our first-half display, but with a different ref, we’d have at least left with one point.
Only turned up for the 2nd half so can't moan about the result, but my god, Pawson is such a nob. Soooooooo shit 💩 I mean he just got everything wrong. Again
— Richard Socks (@SocksyBeast) March 10, 2018
Yer, agree, we played into their hands regularly. #LFC
Pawson is a disgrace. https://t.co/2bau7AkK8t
— Graeme Kelly (@GraemeKelly1) March 10, 2018
Craig Pawson is the ref who deemed Lovren’s hand touching Calvert-Lewin as a penalty at Anfield. One of the worst referees in the league, and somehow he's refereeing this game.
— Mootaz Chehade (@MHChehade) March 10, 2018
My criticism of Liverpool today is that they allowed United to play how they wanted to, in part from conceding soft goals.
My criticism of Craig Pawson isn't fit to print!
— Andrew Beasley (@BassTunedToRed) March 10, 2018
So Pawson gave this as a foul, didn’t give a clear handball in the penalty area, didn’t give another 2 clear penalties, stopped play when Smalling hurt his leg and didn’t send off Valencia. The FA need to fucking sort it out. pic.twitter.com/lEni3uMKD3
— – (@AnfieldRd96) March 10, 2018
Craig Pawson’s 4 sons have angrily denied that their father is a Manchester United fan.
…”Our dad is a fair and honest man.” said sons Alex, Bobby, Wayne and Schmeichel.#MUNLIV pic.twitter.com/qBdA8A2gik
— BenchWarmers (@BeWarmers) March 10, 2018
Craig Pawson has collected shirts from his favourite teams over the years#MUNLIV pic.twitter.com/bCT9B1bLly
— BenchWarmers (@BeWarmers) March 10, 2018
12 against 11 here.
Pawson is an absolute dickhead.
— – (@AnfieldRd96) March 10, 2018
*Van Dijk coughs*
Pawson blows for a freekick.
— – (@AnfieldRd96) March 10, 2018
Right, I know we’ve been absolute shite and deserve to lose this game but Craig Fucking Pawson has delivered nothing short of the most pathetic bottle job refereeing performance I’ve ever seen. So much wrong decisions. The bloke shouldn’t even be taking charge of U9 Sunday League
— Matthew Ordish (@MattOrdish) March 10, 2018
I really didn't want to be talking about Pawson but he's an absolute joke of a referee.
Fans were concerned before the match when he got the game and rightly so.
Possible penalties, stoppages, 50/50's he got pretty much all of it wrong
Nothing will ever change#MUNLIV
— James 🅻🅵🅲 (@crlfc74) March 10, 2018
Awful refereeing performance today from Pawson
— LiverpoolFF (@LiverpoolFF) March 10, 2018
