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Business thieves
Mo Salah is not part of Garth Crooks’ Team of the Week at the BBC. Of course not. He has scored seven goals in the Premier League this season and clearly has been one of the the best results of this nascent campaign But Crooks has only featured Salah once, when he scored a hat-trick against Leeds United, and started that particular inning with ‘What a way to reintroduce himself to the Premier League after 16 years. I’ve never seen a team come out of the championship and go head-to-head with Liverpool like Leeds United did on Saturday. ” So you understand.
Salah received a mention last week, when Crooks chose Sadio Mane and wrote:
Salah must be careful, I’ve seen him sacrifice his teammate before for glory. The reason Liverpool have been so successful is due to the collaboration of their three forwards. Didn’t the Beatles part ways over something pretty petty?
Salah has literally created more opportunities for Liverpool in the Premier League than any other player, but yes, he definitely ‘need to be careful’.
This week gets a mention once again, with Crooks shamelessly choosing Jordan Henderson simply to have a pop at Salah. Six of Liverpool’s starters, including Salah, were rated higher than Henderson by the media and fans, but Crooks carries on regardless because he wants to make a point.
“I didn’t think it was a Liverpool penalty at the time and I still don’t think so. I have criticized Mohamed Salah in the past for falling into the area when not touched. I have no doubt that West Ham’s Arthur Masuaku made contact, but when it comes to contact sports, it was no fault. However, it is the referee’s opinion that counts and Kevin Friend thought otherwise.
Jordan Henderson played a captain’s role in leading Liverpool through a difficult game against the Hammers on Saturday. It was a controlled pass from Henderson to Xherdan Shaqiri that resulted in Diogo Jota scoring the goal of Liverpool’s goal.
“I wonder if Henderson could have a kind word with Salah to remind him that he has placed himself among the greats of Liverpool, and not spoil it with cheap nonsense like diving.”
You can ask yourself anything you want, Garth. But we are absolutely sure that Henderson will do no such thing; you probably agree with your manager, who said this on Monday:
“What can I say? It was a foul. Almost everyone who saw the situation thought so. Believe it or not, I spoke to Mo yesterday morning about how he feels. He has exactly three proper punches to the foot. One of them is of the penalty situation ”.
Imagine Klopp’s reaction if his captain then had a ‘kind word’ with Salah and told him to ignore a touch from a defender and stay on his feet. He would have his own not-so-kind word.
And in case you’re wondering … no, Harry Kane is not mentioned. Strange carelessness. Oh, but Callum Wilson does it; Apparently his “cunning to take a penalty from Everton’s Andre Gomes was cunning and so was the conversion.” Oh Garth. At least make it less obvious.
Credit Garth
“Since I hit Walker on the knuckles a couple of weeks ago for not taking on a leadership role anymore, it seems like he’s done just that.”
You talk, they listen, Garth.
Sure thing
Crooks also chooses Kurt Zouma but writes:
Regular readers will know that I have been quite ambivalent about Zouma over the years. When I saw him make his Chelsea debut, I said he could be another Marcel Desailly. I’m not sure of that anymore, but there’s no question that the transfers at Stoke and Everton have clearly benefited the defender. Will he win titles with Chelsea like Desailly? Well, I’m not sure about that either.
Is that the Desailly who won a total of zero Premier League titles with Chelsea? And the Zouma who already has two under his belt?
Flexible opinion
At Daily mirror, Stan Collymore is speaking his mind. And his mind is saying that “Sunday’s match between Manchester United and Arsenal was a lightweight clash.”
“They both will make their fans believe they can achieve something, but they both have the back and the bottle of a jellyfish.”
How the hell are you defining ‘bottle’? Arsenal have transformed from the ninth best team in the 2019 Premier League to the third best team in the 2020 Premier League. Doesn’t it take more than the ‘thorn and bottle of a jellyfish’? Do only teams with British (and Liverpool) coaches have ‘bottle’?
So naive…
Stan is also saying rather sweetly that Nat Phillips’ performance for Liverpool on Saturday “showed that … Jurgen Klopp is willing to give a chance to hit.”
In fact, he is ‘willing to give the opportunity to knock on the door’ if you lose three players through injury and Phillips does not complete an expected loan for the Championship.
“I really want to see what the central medium has to offer in 10 to 15 games.”
Does anyone want to break your heart?
Ch-ch-ch changes
It really shouldn’t surprise us. Maybe we should be envious Mirror The soccer team is much, much more successful than us. But really this is completely ridiculous:
‘Mauricio Pochettino tells Ed Woodward the’ changes ‘he would make in Man Utd’
He did? Or did it appear in Sky sports and talk at length about your time at Tottenham? Here it is doing exactly that …
And the head of the National Sports Network table, Thomas Bristow and Sam Meade (yes, two of them) know absolutely that he ‘told’ Ed Woodward none of that about a club he never mentioned, but they don’t give a damn. shit as soon as you have your click and the numbers in Google Analytics keep increasing.
The first line of the piece is literally this:
“Mauricio Pochettino has outlined what made him successful at Tottenham, as Manchester United remains linked to the jobless manager.”
Yes. It absolutely has. And part of that ‘sketch’ was this phrase: “When you get to a new club you have to make changes.”
And from that phrase came that absolutely ridiculous headline. Isn’t there a point where someone asks ‘do you think we’ve possibly gone too far?’
Oh when the saints
‘He whispers under his breath, but some say Southampton could this season’ make a Leicester ”, begins Tony Banks’ piece on the Daily mirror.
Fact Check: No, they are not.
“The turnaround has been so impressive that the bookies have cut the Saints to 100-1 for the title.”
Fact Review: No they haven’t.
Recommended reading of the day
Jonathan Liew in fans without football
Daniel Storey on Burnley and Sheffield United
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