IFAB Laws of the Game
www.thefa.com
A few of you should brush up on the rules of the game. Doku makes a studs up challenge with a raised foot, doesn't win the ball (although that's not important if the play is dangerous, which it was) and kicks Mac Allister in the chest. It's a penalty. It's one thing for the on field official to miss the call, but it's another for VAR not to get it right. Especially when the sole reason it was implemented, was to correct situations like these.
There is a lot of bitterness towards Liverpool and their supporters. A false narrative of them "whining" when things don't go their way. As if they have faced the same amount of injustice as any other club.
Here's some more reading you can delve into, if you actually care to come closer to the truth.
FREE READ - Lots and lots and lots of data – all show LFC to be a 'special case'
tomkinstimes.substack.com
Liverpool have had more dubious calls go against them then any other team in the Premier League. That is a fact. The article above is from May 2023. So it doesn't factor in the legitimate goal Luis Diaz scored against Tottenham not being given. The worst VAR debacle since it's inception in the Prem. Not to mention some of the highly questionable cards that were handed out in that match. Or the game of basketball Martin Odegaard played in the box at Anfield.
The PGMOL will blow whatever kind of smoke up the collective arses that is convenient at the time. In the match against Tottenham, the line was that the play had already resumed so they couldn't call it back to give the goal. Yet only a handful of matches later, roughly 2 minutes of play was called back in favor of giving Crystal Palace a penalty against the very same Reds. Which they scored. Sound.
I'm not saying Liverpool have never benefited from an iffy call going in their favor. But to equate something like the drop ball against Forrest being in the same realm as this shite, is beyond disingenuous. Forrest were also awarded an incorrect drop ball earlier in that match, might I add.
Lazy agendas.
Today, Liverpool had their chances to win the match outright and didn't capitalize. City themselves also hit the woodwork late. Even though that is true, it shouldn't excuse a blatant penalty not being awarded. It doesn't matter what scoring chances were missed up to that point. A penalty is a penalty.
I can't say why exactly these calls are missed routinely against Liverpool, and why City have benefited from so many in their favor during their period of dominance. I can say, I do not believe for a second that it just comes down to incompetence.
A fish stinks from the head.