To be fair, it probably was a pen, albeit a soft one.
Like I said, I was simply on the war path, on the basis of my team having the same direction as a bumper car with a 7-year-old behind the wheel
What gets me at present is the double standard. There's a ton of players from any of number of other teams who'd have given a much rougher ride than Mane, if they went over at the slightest touch, as Mane did today. To be clear, Mane seems a great man outside the pitch (and obviously a wonderful one on it) so nothing personal, and I'm even a bit on the South American side of things when it comes to gamesmanship. It's just the bias that irks me.
Vardy and Mahrez (and Huth & co on the other side of the ball) got away with murder during Leicester's run, because everyone and their dog wanted the miracle to be completed. Now Mane and Salah are getting a free ride on gamesmanship, because everyone and their dog wants the former giant restored to glory by a very likeable manager.
If an Argentianian player based in England had pulled Mane's stunt from the CL final, at the World Cup against England, he would be run out of the country. Someone in a Liverpool shirt and it's a cheeky, heads up play and whatever else the talking heads called it at the time.
Right, rant over and off to get smashed to forget the misery that is the Premier League
