He never recovered from that auld rugby world cup.
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I’d say it must be automatically saved — and he logs in with it every time— then remembers
Klopp has made Anfield a bastion of invincibility. It’s a moment in time. All we can do is sit back in wonder, enjoy it as it too will pass.
The prick that should have got a red for hacking Salah down last year.
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How’s the stomach today pal?
no good.
Tonic water — bit of toast ---- shove your thumb up your hole.
Sorted.
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That’s a pretty straight forward explanation and proves Michael Oliver made the correct call. If the ball hadn’t hit TAA’s hand and went through to Sterling and he scored then it would have been disallowed. The goal was scored after a few minutes, there were nearly 90 minutes left for the £1bn outfit to redeem the situation and they sh!t the togs again at Anfield.
Ah would you look 
No one can stop the mighty reds … Not the opposition, not refs, not var… we’ll murder them all and piss ont hem for laughs.
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All his moaning to the press last week about the bus and Mane … Up yer bollix Pep
PREMIER LEAGUE | MATT DICKINSON
november 11 2019, 12:01am, the times
It’s gone a bit Basil Fawlty for angry Pep Guardiola
matt dickinson, chief sports writer
City manager’s day to forget means he will be under more pressure to win Champions League
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To watch Pep Guardiola on the touchline at one point during a frenetic afternoon yesterday was to think of Basil Fawlty thrashing his car with a branch.
Smacking his arm, waving fingers at the fourth official, howling into the sky above Anfield, Guardiola was a man looking for something — anything — on which to take out his boiling frustrations. He may as well have picked up a corner flag and attacked the VAR monitor for all the good it would do him.
Guardiola wanted something to blame, but was it not quite obvious? Field a defence as wobbly as, well, Fawlty’s misfiring Austin 1100 against one of the world’s most potent counterattacking sides and the outcome was surely not that surprising.
Guardiola cut a frustrated and frenetic figure as his City side were taken apart at AnfieldPETER BYRNE/PA
Football is a most unpredictable sport but if anyone was guessing where this game would be decided, especially after a glimpse at the team sheet, it was Liverpool punching holes in a City defence that included a reserve goalkeeper in Claudio Bravo, a third or fourth-choice central defensive partnership in John Stones and Fernandinho, and an inexperienced left back in Angelino.
“That back four and goalkeeper would never cope at this ground,” Gary Neville said afterwards, and he did not need the benefit of hindsight. “You have to have toughness and authority like you would not believe to play here.”
Particularly, he might have added, against a Liverpool side that, as Jürgen Klopp noted afterwards, was far too cute to try to play City at their own possession game. Provided their own defence could stand firm against City’s probing, Liverpool knew space would be created for lightning-fast raids.
Neville talked of expecting something innovative and creative from Guardiola to try to cover the obvious weaknesses. Instead we had Liverpool two goals ahead inside 13 minutes with counterpunches that seemed almost as inevitable as they were devastatingly direct and effective.
Stones and the rest of the City defence wilted in the face of Liverpool pressurePETER BYRNE/PA
Of course some of this was pure misfortune for Guardiola with Ederson and Oleksandr Zinchenko hurt and especially Aymeric Laporte being out with a long-term injury. Every time he comes to pick a team Guardiola must curse that collision between Laporte and Adam Webster during City’s match against Brighton & Hove Albion back in August.
The sight of Vincent Kompany in the Sky Sports studios was another reminder of the value of a centre half of exceptional stature, and how City lack one. Stones looked like he might become exactly that at the 2018 World Cup, and perhaps he still will, but there have been plenty of mixed signals about that from Guardiola in the past 18 months.
Meanwhile Benjamin Mendy could have been available but was deemed not fit enough to start a second game in five days after the Champions League tie against Atalanta in midweek, which did make you wonder whether he might have been better saved for this test.
Perhaps no available City combination could have kept out a Liverpool side of this irresistible force but that was much more the story of the day, and a worthwhile discussion, than the officiating, however many times every decision is replayed in football’s mad, contagious obsession with contesting every call.
At the end of this match we had Guardiola shaking referee Michael Oliver’s hand with ludicrous insincerity, saying: “Thank you SO much,” to the referee when his body-language screamed: “Bastard!”
“It was not sarcastic,” Guardiola said afterwards, which only goes to prove that he can be sardonic in any number of languages. “Ask Mike Riley, ask the big bosses, don’t ask me,” he repeated when asked exactly what decisions had made him unhappy.
However bright and brilliant these top coaches are, they struggle to keep their sanity on afternoons like this, especially when a league title is slipping away as this one surely has from City. Nine points is not insurmountable but there is something more hardened about this Liverpool side and more fragile about City.
With 25 points from 12 league games, it is the lowest total by a Guardiola side at this stage of a top-flight campaign though this was not a statistic, or a defeat, to extrapolate into any sort of crisis.
Sterling, who squared up to Joe Gomez, did his best to carry the fight to his former clubROBBIE JAY BARRATT/GETTY IMAGES
City played spells of decent football, if not being “awesome, one of the best performances we have played” as Guardiola tried to claim in limiting the damage to his team’s morale.
At the very least, this was Raheem Sterling’s best display back at Anfield. On other occasions he has looked a little cowed but this time all those chants about being a “greedy bastard” seemed to provoke him to seize the ball.
He was the best of a City side who had plenty of the ball but did not have Liverpool’s ruthlessness. It had the feeling of a tough afternoon for City from the moment, almost from kick-off, that the ball bounced under the foot of Kevin De Bruyne. (Is he carrying a little weight?) It was such a jarring sight, like seeing Tiger Woods shank one off the tee or Roger Federer balloon a forehand into the crowd.
As the Anfield crowd roared at that mistake, we remembered that Guardiola’s previous four visits here had included one draw and three defeats. From the moment that Liverpool went ahead so early, this was a performance of unshakeable conviction from the home team. City managed to have plenty of attempts at goal, but were only on target with three from 18.
Defeat inevitably puts even more pressure on City’s European campaign. Guardiola has not won the Champions League since 2011, when Barcelona defeated Manchester United 3-1 at Wembley. He surely would not have expected, given all the resources of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City, that he would be waiting so long.
That will have to be the focus now that hopes of a third league title in a row have surely gone, though first Guardiola will have to get those frustrations out of his system.
The Guardian gave De Bruyne 8 out of 10 for the match yesterday. I thought he was poor. Struggled to get into the game and generally poor deliveries. Sterling was City’s best player, with the superb Bernardo Silva close behind.
Whatever about the questionable decisions which could be argued either way, the racist abuse directed at Raheem Sterling from the Liverpool “fans” yesterday was absolutely disgusting and a stain on that football club.
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It was wonderfully refreshing and a real sign of maturity of Liverpool fans that they were able to boo Raheem Sterling for being a greedy bastard and never cross the line that other clubs do into racist abuse. Their abuse of Stones was based on colour - the colour blue of their Merseyside “rivals” Everton.
- this is unreal.I’m standing up to racists. If you think it’s ok to racially abuse somebody just because he didn’t want to play for their favourite team anymore then I pity you.
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You’re better than this mate … the chants of greedy bastard should be a clue for you … but if you want to play to the gallery there’s very little I can say to save you