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But when Jeffers hurled himself to the turf in front of the North Bank, with Arsenal trailing 1-0 and barely 11 minutes left, all Jeff Winter knew was that he had seen Riise’s hand touch Jeffers’ side. It was enough to convince the referee to give Arsenal a penalty and Riise a yellow card.
Happy to be leaving Highbury with a point and the memory of a spirited display, Gérard Houllier was nevertheless angry about the Arsenal forward’s role in the home side’s equaliser. “I’m not blaming Mr Winter because he was conned by Jeffers’ dive,” the Liverpool manager said. “He should never have given a penalty, and the one who should have been given the yellow card is the diver.
“I have sympathy for the referee. It all goes quickly, and it was near the end of the game. But if that hap pened every time there was physical contact between players in the box, there would be 50 penalties best canada goose coat for skiing in every game.
“Riise is buying a canada goose jacket online very, very unhappy. He felt it was unfair. And I am angry with Jeffers. I hope the best canada goose coat for women referee will look at it again and rescind the yellow card. There was no ambiguity at all. It was not a penalty.”
Inevitably, his old amazon canada goose jacket pal Arsène Wenger saw it from a slightly different perspective. “I think Franny was caught on his left leg and had no choice but to go down,” the Arsenal manager said. Television replays are seldom conclusive, but the cameras revealed the alacrity with which Jeffers allowed canada goose coat 1000 bulbs coupons himself to be brushed to earth.
Houllier was angry because he knew Liverpool had missed a chance of going home with their first win in nine games and, incidentally, of repaying Arsenal for the victory the London side took black canada goose parka at Anfield, with only 10 men, at a crucial juncture last season. And there had been absolutely no ambiguity over the penalty Winter awarded Liverpool after 70 minutes, Sol Campbell’s clumsy challenge on Milan Baros enabling them to take a lead justified by the positive spirit in which they approached the second half.
That was a good job for the 38,074 paying customers, since the visitors had suffocated the first half with a display of unremitting pragmatism which spoke clearly of those five defeats in their previous matches and the conversion of that early seven-point championship lead into a nine-point deficit against the current leaders.
“Liverpool are in a psychological condition where you cannot expect them to play flamboyant football,” Wenger said. “They came for a draw and maybe it will help them believe now.”
Self-belief was not a problem yesterday. Houllier admitted sending his side out with instructions to concentrate on frustrating their opponents, but no matter how threadbare their attacking play in the first period, the players never lacked commitment. When the ineffective Michael Owen departed after half an hour with a tight hamstring, the arrival of best place to buy a canada goose jacket the unpredictable El-Hadji Diouf benefits of canada goose jacket gave the team an injection of energy canadagoosecanadaoutlet, if not coherence. Although he and the excellent Baros operated as virtually autonomous attacking units, both of them gave Campbell and Martin Keown plenty to think about.
It was when Keown presented the ball to Baros inside the Arsenal half that a minute’s hectic action gave birth to the opening goal. Campbell rescued his fellow centre-back with a smart covering tackle, and watched Patrick Vieira launch the sort of swift counter-attack in which Arsenal move upfield like a crack basketball team, seeming to cover the length of the court in half a dozen strides. But this time Dennis Bergkamp’s short final pass went astray, allowing Steven Gerrard to hit a raking diagonal pass which sent Baros running from left to right and into Campbell’s illegal tackle. A classic Liverpool move had received its reward.
Houllier talked about his team having “turned the corner”, but he is playing a dangerous game with his own mind when he chooses to talk of how, had they won this match and the previous one against Blackburn, the gap separating Liverpool from the leaders would have been a mere three points.
“At the end of the season maybe this game will count,” he said, still musing on the injustice of the equaliser. “And not just for us.”