Former Liverpool winger Ryan Babel has recreated the notorious tweet that price him £10,000 in 2011 as he vented his frustrations on the officiating within the Reds’ controversial 2-1 loss to Tottenham on Saturday.
Babel landed in scorching water 12 years in the past throughout his time at Anfield for photoshopping an image of referee Howard Webb with a Manchester United shirt on after his aspect have been dumped out of the FA Cup by their fierce rivals.
Webb awarded Man Utd a penalty within the second minute of the sport, ruling Dmitry Berbatov had been introduced down within the field by Daniel Agger whereas replays confirmed that no contact had been made.
Regardless of Liverpool’s protest, the penalty stood and Ryan Giggs transformed from the spot. It could show to be the deciding objective in a 1-Zero recreation that noticed captain Steven Gerrard despatched off for a harmful problem on Michael Carrick.
Babel obtained a £10,000 high-quality from the FA for the publish and was warned about his future conduct. Nonetheless, now that he’s taking part in within the second division of Turkish soccer for Eyupspor his social media exercise cannot be pulled up by English soccer authorities and so the Dutchman took the chance to physician an image of referee Simon Hooper carrying a Spurs shirt on X.
He captioned the publish: “Gamers of LFC must be allowed to publish this image tho… #LFC #SpursVsReds #PremierLeague.”
This comes after Luis Diaz’s objective was wrongfully dominated offside by VAR on Saturday. The PGMOL have admitted {that a} “important human error” led to Diaz’s objective being chalked off by on-field officers after which the VAR crew.
Regardless of footage suggesting Diaz had been performed onside by the outstretched foot of Cristian Romero, no strains have been formally drawn on VAR’s pictures and a call was made rapidly to disclaim the Reds a gap objective. Tottenham went on to win the sport 2-1 after Liverpool have been lowered to 9 males with Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota being despatched off in a recreation clouded by controversy.