Liverpool vs Crystal Palace: We are LiVARpool and it feels great
Liverpool went to Selhurst Park and came away with a VAR assisted 2-1 win that sparked a flurry of Twitter conspiracy theories.
They crawled out of their corners of the internet and settled around one chief subject. LiVARpool. We, maybe we are. And it feels great.
It feels great to grab a win in the last five minutes of the game, cheers Roberto Firmino, and annoy nearly the whole of football Twitter as well.
It feels great to consistently beat teams when everyone thinks it’s too late. It’s the sign of a team who never give up, has iron clad belief in themselves and who never stop working. It’s the sign of a team who is equipped to win the Premier League.
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Maybe that’s what annoys peoples? They don’t want to see Jurgen Klopp’s boys pop up for an 85th minutes winner because it reminds them of the great winners of the past; of Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United and Jose Mourinho’s first edition Chelsea.
But the shrill shrieking also forgets an inconvenient truth. Liverpool do not universally benefit from the Video Assistant Referee. No side does. It’s infuriating and soulless and has somehow served to make a contentious area of the game even more contentious.
But with the call to deny James Tomkins a goal, it got it right. Even Palace manager Roy Hodgson said so. Jordan Ayew pushed Dejan Lovren, a foul that led to Ayew’s strike.
Perhaps the LiVARpool tag sticks because it’s a nice word and it makes people feel clever when they use it. Maybe it sticks because you can shoehorn VAR into the name easily, it gets repeated and suddenly it’s wedged in the back of your brain.
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As long as this team keeps picking up points and marching towards the Premier League title, I doubt whether anyone will care what they call us.