You've either got or you haven't got.......

Okay, so it's official, Rob Styles is rubbish - he shamelessly conspired to destroy Liverpool's season, before it even began and that is a crime of the highest magnitude. Well possibly less magnitude than spoiling the season for Man U or Chelsea, but still a biggy, nonetheless.

As all football people will tell you, it is the issue of consistency with refereeing, that is paramount. So it seems timely to remind those callers for consistency, to remember another diabolical decision at the start of last season. Cast your minds back to a lunge by Chris Morgan - minimal contact, if any, on Stephen Gerrard at Bramhall Lane on August 16 2006. Penalty given and dispatched : 1 point each for Liverpool and The Blades instead of 3 to Neil Warnock's lads.

In the dying embers of the opening day fixture of 2006-2007 season, Liverpool "won" a penalty which could well have saved us all a summer of legal action and sour grapes. I am struggling now to find any comment from Rafa Benitez about the ludicrous decision. So I'm presuming he accepted it, with enough grace to suggest he should have done the same after the non penalty against Chelsea.

I suppose we demand consistency in our refs but not in our responses to good and misfortune. I guess that's football for you.

Oh and the ref at Bramhall Lane that day when Liverpool received the gift of 1 point .

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