Liverpool supporters were hit with the injustice of a wrongly disallowed goal thanks to a huge VAR mistake and that has led to the club releasing a public statement which has now been criticised by Gary Neville.
The former Manchester United defender took to social media to write: ‘Jurgen Klopp handled the situation well last night after the game. Most football fans will have had empathy with what happened and recognised it was wrong!
‘However Liverpools statement tonight is a mistake! Talk of exploring all options ( what does that mean!!! ) and sporting integrity are dangerous phrases along with being vague and aggressive.
‘Sorry we f@@@@d up was enough!! I said this last night. Sorry should be respected and not undervalued.
‘This is a snap reaction that can always be wrong but I feel strongly about it’.
It does feel important to note that in no point during the official statement from the PGMOL after our game with Spurs was there actually an apology issued, just an acknowledgement of a mistake.
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The club are well within their rights to challenge this mistake and ask for further information to be released publically as only through full transparency, can we see how and why the mistake happened.
As for further ‘escalation and resolution’ that is also seemingly being sought, it’s hard to know what can actually be done other than to punish those who made the mistake with more serious repercussions than just ‘have a week off’.
Questioning the ‘sporting integrity’ is a huge statement to also make and therefore we will have to see what comes from this very strong move from our hierarchy.
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As for the joint Salford City owner, it’s fine for him to release a statement himself about what has been said but until people publicly ask for transparency on mistakes of this level – change will not happen.
Time will tell who was in the right but this certainly feels like a story that won’t go away.
You can view Neville’s comments via his X account:
Jurgen Klopp handled the situation well last night after the game. Most football fans will have had empathy with what happened and recognised it was wrong!
However Liverpools statement tonight is a mistake! Talk of exploring all options ( what does that mean!!! ) and sporting…
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) October 1, 2023
Neville (who I mostly agree with) goes on about Politics and uses his fame to voice opinion in another domains. People with managment ‘pull’ need to stand up to bias and targetted refereeing. Or weak individuals like Neville on this topic adds to the infringement of teams like Liverpool. His bias comes through on this report. PGMOL should consider replay if they stack the odds so a Team is destined to lose. No way Liverpool could win that with the callous, harming decisions. If it were Man U ……
Very curious response from Neville, perhaps the traditional favouring of Utd by officials is baked into the system?