Why Liverpool WEREN’T given a penalty for Jeremy Doku’s boot to Alexis Mac Allister | ESPN FC

I'll tell you why because city are paying the refs off

This is basically a silly explanation. But it also is probably the way it happened. And that's the problem with var. Either it's a penalty or it is not.

Not a pk. Macalistet throwns himself into doku.

It will be a total disgrace if city win the league so many decisions go there way and so many wrong decisions go against liverpool. I hope arsenal win it but if they don't then liverpool deserve it.

This was a obvious foul not called. Why? Corruption? Incompetence? No excuses for this. The Curtis Jones red card people argued the exact opposite thing. Stupid. Embarrassing how the media is trying to normalize this.

I'm not a Liverpool or city fan. His foot was high and it was clumsy at best and dangerous at worse. If a keeper went out to punch a ball and hit someone's face then it's a penalty and no one cares about his intent. I've never heard so much talk about intent when a potentially dangerous tackle is has been made. Intent matters but has never been the deciding factor, tackles on the ground are not decided primarily by intent, never have been. If you have your foot that high in the penalty box then you are taking a big risk as there will be opposition players going for the ball. I don't understand how it wasn't a penalty by any metric. If it's late or too hard or the foot is too high then it's a foul. I hope the title isn't decided by this, it's a bad look. If the rules now are governed by intent then you may as well chuck al the rules out as it will be decided by the referee and not the rulebook and players could use that to manipulate decisions in their favour. 99 percent of fouls have no ill intent, that is not why they are fouls, this is very bizarre.

Jones got the ball first vs Spurs and still got sent off. Pathetic officiating

Very strange to me you cant tackle on the floor with your studs up even if you get the ball but its ok to put your studs up on some ones chest if you get the ball wont argue with anyone any where else on the pitch that would of been a freekick i really believe at that moment of the game the ref and pgmol did not want to give it

Here's what grates for Liverpool fans, Curtis Jones sending off in the Spurs away fixture, is the exact example of opposite of everything mentioned by Gabs in this clip, so this set of rules about re-refereeing games applies to everyone except Liverpool……

now doku didn't intentionally foul macallister, but the issue isn't whether he touched the ball first.. curtis jones was directly sent off earlier in the season for going for the ball at ground level after his foot inadvertently rolled over the ball into a spurs player.. both the jones and doku challenges are fouls and yellow card offences.. quite simply if you mis-time a challenge and end up hurting the opponent you should be penalized, nobody playing the game would argue against that.. in the doku case, since it is a direct free kick offence in the area it is then a clear penalty .. now this doesn't necessarily 'decide' the game, macallister could miss or the keeper save the kick.. that liverpool 'played on' also doesn't mean it wasn't a penalty – they are playing to the whistle (which notice never came despite macallister lying injured on the ground).. the var replay could have confirmed no penalty only if doku's boot didn't actually touch macallister and he 'simulated' the contact.. referees who don't understand these simple concepts shouldn't be officiating sunday league games, let alone the highest league in the world.. disclosure, i am a reds supporter, but i would have no interest in us winning the league to to poor or corrupt officiating.. yes a draw was the 'fair' result last sunday, against city, but its not the referee's job to try to engineer this, rather just apply the rules without fear or favour and especially protect the safety of players.. regards the drop ball previous week against forest it is unfortunate the ref didn't blow for a foul (a mistake) before stopping play and then not giving the drop ball to forest making a second, albeit offsetting, error.. frankly epl officiating is terrible and var continually compounding rather than minimizing the problem

Watch it again he doesn't know where Macallister is he watched the ball the whole time

I don’t think the refs/var favour a specific team.
But this incident is what has now fully convinced me that certain decisions are given to get an outcome that is the best for the league/title race

A couple of seasons ago when Liverpool were trailing Man City..I think by 6-8 points, city were getting some dubious calls going against them until the gap went to 1 point.

Liverpool winning this game, would have put them top by 2 points and with both city/arsenal games behind them and city vs arsenal to come, they would have become massive favourites.

Instead we have 1 point separating 3 teams

Nobody thinks it wasn't a penalty