April 2021: Liverpool fans are still complaining about the Mane red card
By David Gate
Almost 4 years after Liverpool forward Sadio Mane was sent off against Manchester City for a high challenge and Liverpool fans are still complaining.
It’s been 1318 days since that fateful day in Manchester. On the 9th September 2017, referee Jon Moss gave a red card to Sadio Mané of Liverpool Football Club in their Premier League match with Manchester City. To this day barely a high foot can be raised in a football match without a Liverpool supporter saying:
“Mane got sent off for that”
“He has a right to go for the ball”
“It’s the inconsistency that I hate”
While most fans concede that it is against the rules to stud an opponent in the head, even on accident, there are many more who will point out that it is a “grey area”.
It was a turning point for the club who rallied around the chronic injustice to not lose a game for the next 14 months. An impressive treble for the club that current captain Joe Gomez remembers fondly:
“The red card was the moment we knew it was true: the FA really were Manc-loving-ass-kissers. We were never the same again. It was us against the world. The world and Brighton & Hove Albion. We never looked back.”
It is hard to believe that barely 8 months after the injustice, 2019 Ballon D’or winner Ben Woodburn, would score his match winning hat-trick against Barcelona to lift the Champions League Trophy.
Conversely, it was the last moment of joy that Manchester City fans would ever see after President Trump started the Oil Wars in the Middle East in the following year. City owner Sheikh Mansour conscripted Kyle Walker and Raheem Sterling to serve a tour of duty in the Saudi army. However, both quickly perished as neither were able to make the correct decision or find the target on a consistent basis.
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