Sorry Jurgen Klopp but when are Everton getting Merseyside Derby replays for referees' blunders?
Unexpectedly it didn’t take long for Evertonians to bite back after Jurgen Klopp called for Liverpool’s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur to be replayed because of a VAR blunder.
Blue John Murray took to Twitter to send a mock message to the Football Association asking whether Everton’s hugely controversial 2-1 defeat to Liverpool in October 2007 could be replayed after Reds player Dirk Kuyt was only booked for a flying lunge on Phil Neville but stayed on the pitch to net the winner from the penalty spot in stoppage time his earlier victim dismissed for a handball on the goal-line.
Responding to Murray’s tweet, Neville, now 46, declared: “I agree – I will get my boots ready for the replay!”
The Merseyside Derby of 16 years ago this month certainly provided plenty of mayhem. There was still enough time for the Blues to go down the other end and be denied what looked like a penalty for themselves when Jamie Carragher wrestled Joleon Lescott to the ground.
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Referee Mark Clattenburg went on to take charge of a European Championship final, Champions League final, FA Cup final and Olympic gold medal game but speaking on Carragher’s podcast ‘The Greatest Game’ he admitted he had a shocker when it came to being fair to David Moyes’ men that day. The County Durham official said: “I was out of my depth.
“I don't know why I was refereeing it. I'd just done the Manchester derby and the north London derby, so it was my third derby in three or four weeks.
“I had underestimated it – the working-class derby. The other two were different derbies, this one was
