10 WORST Referee Decisions That Cost Liverpool

Liverpool have had their fair share of bad referee decisions against them in the last decade. Here's 10 of the worst / most memorable!
Some of these are laughably bad. Two of them arguably cost Liverpool a league title.
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[@thisisanfield]

Our list is in no particular order. Which do you think is the worst or biggest mistake??

[@Nunyabusiness40]

They’re all horrid. Don’t forget Ming’s kung fu kick with studs up against Gakpo’s chest that looked like fresh krueger sliced his chest, and wasn’t shown even a yellow. Curtis maybe not so much but no one would argue a yellow if that was given instead, so in aggregate, it looks biased at best.

[@justliveandletlive]

How about Cresswell's knee high tackle on Jordan Henderson against West Ham? Should have been sent off but wasn't LFC lost the match 3-2 (Becker was fouled for the 1st goal anyway).

[@gratefulkm]

The Keita penalty not given vs leicester if we won that game we win the league

[@garethparry6673]

The Skrtel punching the ball in the box v Man City in 2014👍

[@riverbluesky]

Rhodri as that cost the league

[@MScantlin]

There’s 3 or 4 league titles that were lost in there, due to this, and they all went to City. At some point you have to wonder if there’s a “Barcelona” situation going on.

[@Nunyabusiness40]

Some of the same board members too

[@thatchinaboi1]

When you can't even suggest the real possibility of corruption, you know there is something very wrong.

[@thatchinaboi1]

What is there to hide if no one is guilty of anything? And if someone is guilty, wouldn't it be in everyone's interest to make sure they don't get away with it?

[@scousehousemaffia4289]

Just said the same mate absolute scandal what a disgrace our league is becoming

[@Do27gg]

There is but you’ll be told to shut up if you say so

[@A.I_Harmony]

Sad this group of legendary players deserve to win more than 7 trophies

[@tawanu]

It’s quite apparent, Howard Webb is now on Man City’s payroll.

[@ramakumarnambiar7010]

😂

[@DomH1994]

I mean the VAR from the weekends match was literally on the UAE's payroll, now I wonder what state owns Man City 🤔

[@anfieldreds8041]

❤❤❤❤

[@user-qv3jv1xs6j]

Webb and co on Saudi payroll to sabotage Liverpools top 4 chances and pave the way clear to sign Mo Salah

[@Lesthered]

he used to be on fergies payroll the bent bastard

[@noorgaarddamsgaard9866]

You forgot in that same 2-2 game with Tottenham where harry should ve been sent off, when the score was 2-1 to Liverpool, Jota got a chance to make it 3-1. Emerson Royal took Jota out from behind denying a goal scoring opportunity and didn't touch the ball. No penalty, no red card, emerson royal stays on the pitch and Robertson gets a red for kicking him. It's just one BS call after another. VAR was just a way for the league to script their games better.

[@stevenhaas9622]

What is so painful is that these mistakes literally cost us 3 league titles

[@backtothefifa1059]

In 2014 we got away with one when we beat City 3-2 at Anfield. Skrtel punched the ball away in injury time instead of heading it so those cancel each other out. We were robbed in the away game against Chelsea when Suarez was fouled by Eto'o in the box and the ref ignored it.

[@Alan-jb3kb]

How do you think all English clubs felt when Liverpool got use kicked out of Europe 😊

[@garymcgra]

Steven Il make you a list of all decisions gone in your favour. It's a long list.

[@Sid-Cannon]

What gets me is they say they couldn't bring it back and award a goal once the game had restarted again, but I remember a game at Brighton where the full time whistle had gone, but they brought it back to give Man United a penalty. Refereeing decisions today are more inconsistent than they were before VAR, which is baffling given the technology available ...

[@davidtsang5338]

That was Man Utd.

[@user-sp6jn7ow9o]

المدلل مان يونايتد .تبا لهم

[@MaksB.]

Liverpool fan here, but that was because the game hadn't been restarted is what I've heard.

[@JohnnyC01]

@@MaksB. There is no such rule that they can't do anything after a restart. Remember Juventus? They literally canceled league titles after years. That's just a bullshit excuse from the officials.

[@Robert-ks5ix]

That was for united so that's why that happened

[@dansmith8667]

For me the poor decisions started with the way VAR showed the pictures of Curtis' foul. It started with about six seconds of a still picture and only showed the worst possible angle in detail. If it had showed the tackle from behind, it gives a completely different perspective. Yellow, not a red.

[@kevinwalton6767]

This was my point exactly. The image shown to the ref as he approached the monitor completely biased his decision! Ridiculous!!

[@Sensey1234]

the reff was looking to a picture like a fking NPC lmao the fastest offside call i ever witness in my whole life. but damn what a 9man match tho , unforgettable.

[@Bennodas]

This particular action showed how motivated Darren England and Dan Cook were in ensuring a particular result

[@everycloud7144]

Arsenal were Man city's closest rivals last season and they had some terrible decisions go against them, makes you wonder.

[@tripanzo]

Tottenham was arsenals closet rival

[@vacantplanet]

@@tripanzo Tottenham ar noone's rival. They could play against their U19s in a final and loose.

[@Bennodas]

Anything to keep ManCity winner. PL should be renamed Abudhabi League

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

They also robbed 5 points from ´Pool by bribing refs. Don´t know if they robbed more points than got robbed or what the outcome was.

[@MCFCReacts]

They robbed Liverpool twice last season

[@craiggornall3426]

You missed the stone wall penalty yesterday on Gomez and the one when we played spurs ( Harry Kane Red) when Jota was 100% fouled in the box - but since Webb has been put in cough cough charge we have had awful decisions against us

[@xibalbaNOW]

Yesterdays offside has got to be the lowest point for var officiating and it needs to be an issue for all footie fans

[@GGMattt]

There is no excuse for mistakes, we have countless cameras and VAR, if it takes 5 full minutes to get the right call, do it! Time can easily be added onto the end of the half. "Oh my bad!" At the end of the match or days later doesn't cut it for a professional sporting league.

[@rewind12354]

The year we was going for the title and Luis Suarez was totally wiped out at Goodison park it was a disgraceful challenge and the player Miralles wasn’t sent off. He later admitted he deliberately targeted Suarez to try and injure him, we drew the game 3.3 and missed out on the title again by 2 points. The goal that Gerard scored against Stoke when we were top of the league, Gerrard scored a last minute free kick to make it 3.2 and the goal was ruled out and nobody knew why. The season that we were top of the league and the goalkeeper Westerveld was knocked over and Boro scored, it was a bad decision and result that cost us the title.

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

Spot on and idk if it was Stoke or nah.

[@abomani21]

Also, not forgetting a clear penalty not given on Gomez, during the past weekend game against Spurs. Van Dijk got a red for a similar foul on Isaak when we played Newcastle...

[@McPilch]

Watching live, I almost gave up football when the Díaz goal check was obviously screwed up, on the back of the disgust at the Jones red card. If I was following any other team, I probably would.. but our players, our manager, our fans, our motto, our ethos, all mean I could never abandon my support of the club.. especially not when the league and those who run it are doing all they can to hurt us. I bet there wouldn't have been any "error" if City beat Wolves earlier...

[@Palestineexists]

Never forget that 2-2 v Spurs. John Moss atrocious refereeing. Need fully automated offsides, EPL has the worst refs in the game

[@jefflee9821]

Corruption at its very best

[@wiseass888]

Should make a top 10 worst referee decisions of the match yesterday. More than enough to take from.

[@praneetk1991]

They should just introduce Tennis-style challenges against decision. 3 or 5 per game, that a captain can invoke. That would have given us that first goal and taken away Jota's first yellow card. I'm surprised why no one's taking about Jota's first yellow card.

[@MofMCR]

If VAR is there to review clear and obvious errors, I agree that was a clear and obvious error. Unless the ref believes it is possible for one player to knee another on the sole of his foot. 🤔

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

Second yellow card also and award a pen and other stuff.

[@IaMD.B.]

I forgot about some of these... Damn, in an alternate universe, we'd be up 3 in league titles.

[@CraigTheBrute-yf7no]

The result should be declared null & void. The match should be replayed. Otherwise the corruption will continue.

[@dogtails7614]

What happened yesterday was totally unacceptable and could count massively come seasons end. Legal action against PGMOL and the individuals involved could be a possibility.

[@InderpalChana-db7ii]

Legal! 😂😂😂😂 behave! You missed out Jotas studs in skipps face! Victimpool

[@peteraleksandrovich5923]

You gotta be joking. If those aren't cards, why have cards? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@marshallmuki2924]

​@@peteraleksandrovich5923 Jotas second yellow is no doubt deserved. The first yellow absolutely not. How can you give someone a card for another player tripping over his own legs? That's not how the rules work for giving cards. Jones is up for debate and most officials have come out and said that they don't consider it a red. The problem with decisions like this is that it can cost a team the entire league. As it happened when liverpool lost by 1 point twice. It's not about costing the game but to cost a team the league is beyond justifiable.

[@bushmonster1702]

@@marshallmuki2924also why would a ref give a yellow for a trip anyway? Referees are way too card happy.

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

@@InderpalChana-db7iiSkipp should have been sent off in first half.

[@scousehousemaffia4289]

I said yesterday that i was sure that everytime we could of gone ahead of city at the top of the league because they dropped points bizarrely so did we the day after now you have proved my feelings great work but im sure you could find more than you have 👏 brilliant work👏

[@weloveliverpoolfc1894]

This is unaccessible. the only justice for that match is to have a replay. This is injustice to Liverpool FC 😭😭😭

[@nikosfragkedakis]

Corruption or Incompetence...???😡😡😡

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

Lets ave both.

[@obayiamaka6810]

All these makes us to be even stronger, let's keep fighting against all odds

[@AlrickHarris-sr3lv]

An apology doesn't help Liverpool they should take into consideration a win for Liverpool would have seen them top the log ,if City had won against wolves makes me wonder if this game would have turned out this way ,From a Manchester United fan Liverpool was robbed even the refs attitude and body language toward the Liverpool players was uncalled for he is there to officiate fairly not to decide who would win or Loose my opinion corruption this ref should not be allowed to ref again he is a disgrace for the game.

[@gratefulkm]

You can take this all the way back to the start of the Premier league , Some seasons we were rubbish, but most seasons the Refs prevented us form being up at the top early on and ensured we were always playing catch up

[@promiseekiko8144]

Players and teams work their ass off in training to try to be the best at what they do only for their best to be capped by the worse kinds of decisions from refrees who are assisted with all the gadgets available.

[@sandwormgod4771]

Skipps challenge on Luis Diaz 22/23 season. It was worse than Curtis Jones yesterday, and yet no red card. VAR said this wasn't a red because when "a player is stepping into a challenge, gets the timing slightly wrong and catches the opponent above the boot, it has been consistent that these are not VAR red cards." Where is the consistency?

[@ephraimakoto3657]

Spurs fans forget that when they remembered Jota ,s tackle on skipp.

[@washimhassenally133]

They are all afraid of Liverpool even referees and VAR are conspiring. DISGUSTING

[@mohamedabdelkader8665]

Simon Hooper, the referee of the match between Tottenham and Liverpool, is the same referee who officiated the match that Liverpool lost to Manchester City, and Liverpool had not lost before that in a number of matches. It seems that he just wants to appear in the media against Liverpool. He issued six yellow cards to Liverpool players, in addition to two red cards to Curtis Jones and Diego Jota. He also canceled A goal for Liverpool, and we all remember his attack on Robertson at Anfield. Such a referee will ruin the greatest and strongest league that can be watched in the world.The FA should have the game replayed losing 3 points that way could wrongly damage liverpools season.

[@thatchinaboi1]

I am considering canceling my Peacock subscription to PL. I won't keep paying for this bullshit.

[@razer0072073]

So we could have had three title's, two at minimum??

[@icu6661]

Hard to call it a game last nigth, knew it would be though when city lost. But in my wildest dreams i couldnt imagine how bad the ref was, feelt like it was city hotline doing it for him.. Makes me sad to know we could have had 2 titles more if we had been treated fair. . Football as we all know and lovs is under threat these years, city is the new barcelona, maybe city have used some ref as advisor.. And newcastle with their saudi blood money will try to buy the best players from everybody else.. funny how the salah rumor came back just before our match against them.

[@ericstill5637]

Don't forget the Jimmy Greaves free kick in 1968 Liverpool claimed their wall wasn't ready.

[@VickenIshkhanian]

I hereby cast spell on all officials involved in these decisions and they will get their bad karma soon. They can't get away with this for long.

[@watchandspray]

Great video. The difference between conspiracy theories and truth telling is between 2-6 months these days. Either way, some people made a ton of money over yesterday's shambolic results.

[@meznehemia]

Refs don't take their responsibilities all that seriously. They will once they start to get the sack.

[@Lesthered]

just their bank account 😮

[@YA-hm5zy]

Suarez given offside against everton also springs to mind.

[@garysoames74]

Suarez teeth was offside !!

[@jacksmith4460]

@@garysoames74 *Suarez's Teeth WERE offside learn English written language if you are going to try and be clever

[@zoltangonye823]

if they don't fix this, no one will believe that they don't cheat every PL match they want...

[@user-bj8ow3kl7i]

It's so sad how it looks like most referees are just against us... Too bad

[@leehaslam5751]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TrotterSoccer]

Missed the worst. A man by the name Company just saw cheese after murdering Salah, then standing over him calling him a cheater. Never forget, lost a lot of respect for Company after that - all of it as a matter of fact.

[@GyatraTenyeres]

In the last match the referee defeated our team not the opponent. It is very sad. This refere should be banned from the first three divisions.🤞🤞

[@lucabrazzi8269]

Funny how the 2 fellas from the var done a game in the UAE for money. Funny isn’t it that the UAE football league and Man City are owned by the same sheik mansour!!!!!

[@timtamothy51]

Kane on Robertson lives rent free in my head. Nightmares!

[@GedTheRed]

Its a fuckin disgrace , i applaud Liverpool F.C for not giving up on this. The 9 men of Liverpool did well against the 13 of Tottenham.

[@johariyip7441]

EPL is corrupted! The establishment is always against Liverpool winning the league from day 1.

[@tariq3888]

Are you trying to get me mad bro? This video is bringing up forgotten trauma 😂😢

[@GodChild63221]

I just realised that udogie made a yellow card gesture while on a yellow card but wasn't given a second yellow

[@dannya8166]

Some horrible decisions, I forgot about a couple of these 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@mojo5149]

City paying off the refs

[@tawanu]

You got the number!!!

[@Nunyabusiness40]

They were in the UAE not even 2 days ago 😂 and the capital is Abu Dhabi.. who own a certain club, that have already 115 charges being fought and delayed by a 25 man squad of lawyers

[@YA-hm5zy]

​@@Nunyabusiness40how much are they getting paid for these games. Are they disguising payments in return for favourable decisions by paying them to ref their games.

[@Nunyabusiness40]

@@YA-hm5zy surely partially. When the owners prove they’re already willing to do whatever it takes to win, even by breaking rules, how can we not ignore all the signs pointing to referees letting some decisions go the other way to help push a game a certain way so that a certain team drops points and another doesn’t in a separate game. We act like match fixing has never happened multiple times in the history of all sports

[@YA-hm5zy]

@@Nunyabusiness40 oh they've done it games when Liverpool have played city. Sterling offside, kompanys red against salah

[@user-uy3gt8mu1l]

Van de Ven.. What a player! 🎉COYS😂

[@lukephoenix5479]

We need a song about ref corruption, so these situation are not just forgotten to time!

[@bushmonster1702]

City have definitely greased some palms over the years.

[@mattcwell]

Something fishy has been going on with the way Liverpool games have been officiated for the last few years. You’ve highlighted the big ones, but in every match there is a double-standard to how our players are treated vs our opponents. Every 50-50 goes against us - Mo Salah gets nearly tackled when he’s protecting the ball and nothing is ever given, every phantom touch on an opponent is given as a foul against us, the list goes on. It sickens me and I can barely watch any more. I believe it is corruption between the PL, PGMOL, and the UAE to benefit City. Yesterday was the evidence I needed - and that was before it came out that the 2 boneheaded VAR officials had just referred matches in the UAE. We’re talking about the type of oil money that can bury assasinations of journalists, yet a few underpaid PL officials can’t be swayed? At the very least, letting these officials do matches in the Middle East opens up speculation. They don’t seem to care. It’s corruption through and through.

[@gratefulkm]

Its the human rights cover, they always mention They never mention its cultrally acceptable and expected to bribe people if your wealthy

[@CraigTheBrute-yf7no]

Search their houses for Rolex watches & gold jewelry… you will be shocked

[@dinkyman8591]

I am a supporter of Manchester United, but I like to see fair play, All teams have bad VAR decisions going against and sometimes for them. But I have to agree that anyone who thought that the Liverpool goal was offside needs to be shifted out of having anything to do with vision, because they are obviously blind. It was a totally legal goal

[@garethparry6673]

I’m a Liverpool fan, but you seemed to have missed Skrtrl punching the ball in the box in the 3-2 match at Anfield in 2014. Look back you’ll see it👍.

[@Veyron1967]

I can take the odd bad decision in a game, but Saturday against Spurs was one shockingly bad decision after the next. I can't ever recall a more one-sided refereeing performance in the PL. The two in the VAR box should not have had the still image of the Jones incident as the first thing the referee saw - that never happpens, so in my view they did it deliberately - 'Leave that image on the screen Darren, he'll change his decision for sure'. Then the offside disgrace which speaks for itself - they knowingly denied Liverpool a goal - their statement afetrwards confirms that but they've tried to sugarcoat it to make it seem less deliberate. VAR couldn't intervene with the Jota incident but that was also a ridiculous dismissal as the first Spurs player brushes Jota's knee - not his fault - and the second player dived thinking contact was coming - it didn't. I believe the VAR team did everything they could to hand that game to Spurs - there was just too many dodgy calls otherwise. Why? I don't know, but I could speculate!

[@stewartmilfordchokhotho857]

When a red is given wrongly it can be rescinded upon being proved unworthy, why can't that be the same the results of the Liverpool game????

[@stewartmilfordchokhotho857]

Thank you for the like, YNWA

[@obrin1983ify]

Never been so proud with the lads!! with 10 men and even with 9 they are relentless!! keep this up liverpool will win this season!!

[@user-is4wj9um1h]

With so much hatering against beloving club we support all the years it makes sense why we can't win the league

[@santoshmansharamani7323]

Manshity has won 3 premier league titles in the past decade at the expense of Liverpool because of Emirates referees. Namely 2013-14, 2018-19, 2021-22.

[@Do27gg]

Not sure if there’s corruption from the top down, but I’m sure the tension between the officials and Liverpool does sway their decisions… 4 red cards in 7 games is not normal

[@mccleandazza4618]

There was a goal by bobby on 2019 against villa he was miles on side as robbo crossed it and bobby snuck between 2 defenders ..he was actually behind the defenders whe he put it in ..the var team drew lines that werent even straight 😂 and disallowed it Corruption at its finest

[@ragnardelgado7913]

Levantemos la voz !!! Ya no más injusticias para ayudar al city a ser campeón

[@andrewlewis5077]

You didn't mention the arsenal game last season where they couldn't tell if their 1st goal was off because of the incorrect camera angle and the penalty we were denied.

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

Also there it was overly okay to dive. Horrendous officiating.

[@graz4792]

If its ever proven in the future that corruption is rife in the English football they will definitely look at this game as a game that was strange.

[@sukanphutchaiyon9778]

I never forget referee and VAR team.Did mistake with my Liverpool

[@mug2y]

I think to make it easy for all the other 19 teams in the prem, next season liverpool should start minus 20 points, we might see a fair game played then, every match liverpool play is a cup final, because they are the greatest club side ever produced in the English league, come on you mighty reds ynwa.

[@amrasfour1718]

The penalties , bro , for kdb , hilarious .

[@owso_]

I almost cried watching this.

[@Kevla74]

That’s the difference between 3 league titles!!!! Unbelievable. Investigation time

[@rastkoDev]

Netflix could make a show on this topic.

[@tonydd1735]

Do you think this ref S.Hooper will referee another LFC match especially a home game. He just lost the plot yesterday,

[@Do27gg]

Rodri handball will forever make me mad

[@1701_FyldeFlyer]

The Sterling 'offside' was shocking.

[@JamesRun-of-the-Milner]

Coutinho´s was too. Corruption at its finest.

[@rademeyerkn]

The crazy part is that this is just the tip of the iceberg

[@santoshmansharamani7323]

Moutinho's underarm was also given handball and penalty awarded to ManShitty in 2021-22 season. They were drawing 0-0 at that time.

[@G-LFC-85]

Corruption at the highest level!

[@seflinokasonde9150]

That sums it up.

[@CodPatrol]

Amazing video, love Man City to make a video like this. Not even in 10 years have they had this many 😂 tainted trophies

[@YNWAREDS2024]

the penalty not given to Liverpool by Martin Atkinson when Naby Keita was fouled in the box against Leicester also helped City win the title.

[@sammypie5501]

U do know that liverpool got away from horrible decisions from the ref

[@markwebb2661]

This out right corruption, lets call it what it is. The consistency of " errors " is beyond mistake, match fixing pure and simple.

[@vtshearerable]

It's absolutely ridiculous It's totally wrong, that some one some we're was paying for these outcomes to stop Liverpool winning the Premier league,

[@benmalone7408]

The Virgil one at Goodison

[@user-fl5eu3mk3n]

Don’t forget the offside decision against Sterling at the new theatre of dreams ( the Etihad ) was given by the linesman not the ref

[@nelsonsel-yb7cm]

We're only begging FIFA to have special interest in Liverpool's premier league games to ensure fairness because football is now heavy investment. Thanks

[@directrue1742]

Great video!! 🙏🏻 but don't forget the 2 champions league Finals vs Madrid Vinicius goal outside from benzema and the fouls from Ramos... liverpool should have 2 more champions

[@leshakorkoza5516]

By the way, Bissouma knocked at Diaz's face intentionally in the second half and there was no even yellow card. Markovich was sent off for the same movement against Basel in 2014.

[@sarangsivasundaran.k5790]

Premier league is now changing into a Referee's league

[@sheilajohnson8565]

Kane's studs up!

[@PersianEmp1re]

These "incidents" can no longer be justified as "errors". I wonder why these bizarre decisions always are against us. We should definitely do something about them.

[@ronakagarwal16]

You missed last season game at arsenal. When they gave arsenal goal despite clear offside.

[@BaileyD2]

‘Cost Liverpool’ Decisions go against every team. I agree decisions were wrong but do not accept one decision cost a team their season. Maybe if their striker didn’t fail to score an open goal, their defenders did their job, etc.

[@greygoat3251]

Today's game was no different. Clear penalty!

[@Muhammadiyah]

Move on to the end of the season time and more shocking decisions have gone against Liverpool which will cost them the league again.

[@zahidulhasanchowdhury3137]

These bloody officials are anti Liverpool. It is proved 100 times but no result.

[@DavgarWrightAltyRelaxingMusic]

The Var team were out in UAE two days before - who owns Man City - yes, UAE! City win prem AGAIN by ONE point - job done!!!

[@lesonline2268]

Everyone is against Victim FC and no one ever gets errors against them. True story.

[@aljones75]

Liverpool are the only team who’ve been challenging City, of course they’re going to have the most decisions going against. If you don’t see it I don’t know what to tell you