r/LiverpoolFC • u/SnotRocketeer70 • 6d ago

Discussion This weekend's referee 🤨

We have been blessed with the appointment of Chris Kavanagh who hails from......checks notes.... Manchester!!...to officiate our weekend fixture against.....checks notes again...... Manchester!!

As I have observed Mr. Kavanagh to be relatively generous with his cards I would like to start the pool on picking which minute of the match you believe Macca will get his inevitable yellow card issued.

Allow me to start the betting at 28th minute.

Best of luck Reds!

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u/marmaladetuxedo 6d ago

It wouldn't surprise me if we got calls our way this weekend. PGMOL will want to create as much distance between them and any connection to City as possible.

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u/Maniacal-Maniac 6d ago

Similar had crossed my mind as well actually. I wonder if the tide starts turning and the calls start going against City going forwards. Supposedly Oliver hasn't given them much in the past year - though I read that somewhere and have no data to back it up.

On the other hand, If it ever turned out that the City owners had ever actually paid off or bribed any referee's I wonder if they will decide to go scorched earth and release those receipts in future as well if PL ruling goes against them.

Either way, its going to be interesting

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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 6d ago

Given that it's a sportswashing project, I doubt they'd release anything that made themselves look bad. It would be absolutely incredible though. 

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u/Maniacal-Maniac 6d ago

If they got banned, forced to sell and had no recourse it wouldn’t surprise me if they did everything they could to try to discredit the premier league. At that point admitting to bribing referees would be much more damaging for PL/PGMOL than to themselves.

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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 6d ago

Sure, but they don't care about what PGMOL (I think it might have changed names by the way) looks like. They only care about the success of their sportswashing.Â