The Tanner Report: Liverpool 2 Fulham 2
Where do you start praising Fulham for coming away from Anfield with a point?
Not by reading the press reports who uniformly wrote of a “10 man come back” from “never say die” Liverpool.
Never mind that Liverpool are arguably the best team in the world right now.
Of course, left back Andy Robertson did not deserve to be sent off just because Professor Gary Lineker said so – and it was at Anfield.
In the first 15 minutes the hapless Robertson was at fault for the Fulham goal and thereby got himself red-carded and there was no comparison between him and our Antonee Robinson who bombed down the left, subdued Mo Salah and “made” both Fulham goals.
He must be Fulham’s greatest left back and what a pairing he might have made with right back George Cohen!
I have rarely been so proud of a Fulham performance, this time epitomised by Kenny Tete writhing in agony after receiving the ball in his testicles but still clearing it.
Of course, the ungracious Arne Slot referred to Fulham players going down too easily.
Heaven forbid that the club that never apologised for Heysel should themselves be accused of gamesmanship!
Just as Antonee Robinson outclassed the Liverpool skipper, so Slot – who inherited Klopp’s team and I bet proves to be yet one more failure in the line of Dutch managers who talk a good game but do not deliver – bears no comparison to our Marco Silva, who has transformed the likes of Issa Diop from a defender waiting for an accident to happen into an imperious bulwark of our defence, alongside fifth choice young Cuença, who stepped up to the plate and performed most capably.
