Gary Neville should rise above Liverpool tribalism for the good of the game
Talk is cheap, and Liverpool have found that out the hard way as the fallout from their controversial defeat to Tottenham continues.
On Saturday, English football was unified in its outrage over the incorrect decision to disallow Luis Diaz’s goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Clearly onside, the PGMOL would admit the error in a statement after the final whistle, explaining it as ‘significant human error’ after VAR failed to intervene.
It would later emerge that VAR Darren England and his assistant Dan Cook were not aware that the on-field decision was to disallow the goal for offside, in what has been described as a momentary lapse of concentration, and were then unable to intervene once play had restarted due to the laws of the game.
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Inevitably, every onlooker had an opinion following this most calamitous of errors. But once Liverpool spoke out themselves in an explosive statement published on Sunday night, football tribalism resumed.
Bemoaning ‘sporting integrity being undermined’ by such mistakes, the club declared they deemed it ‘unacceptable’ to categorise such failings as ‘significant human error’, and revealed they would ‘explore the range of options available, given the clear need for escalation and resolution.’ This would later be followed up on Monday by making a formal request to PGMOL for the audio from their game with Tottenham.
Suddenly public opinion started to turn. Just 24 hours earlier, the officiating error was unacceptable, but now the Reds were being urged to just accept the result as many took issue with their
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