Weekend Fixtures 11th/12th February

[Ernesto]

I just can't believe BBC's Match of the Day decided to use footage from Sky to gauge Kenny Dalglish's reaction to the non-handshake.

Since when has that ever happened before? It's ridiculous.

[Ollie the Optimist]

I just don't think so. And, again, I'm second-guessing the actions of a moronic footballer who believes Twitter to be the pinnacle of social convention, but I think he's incapable of making such a split second decision. It was oly De Gea separating him and Evra in the line-up, after all.

Rio's dodged a bullet today, in my opinion.

dont agree wit this, he has seen his captain and his brother be racially abused so he was right not to shake terrys hand (if thats true, i didnt see it) i think he was prepared to put this aside if sureaez shook hands but he didnt, rio ignored him on principle i think after that and rightly so

[Ollie the Optimist]

I just can't believe BBC's Match of the Day decided to use footage from Sky to gauge Kenny Dalglish's reaction to the non-handshake.

Since when has that ever happened before? It's ridiculous.

why is it? the sky interview was brilliant and really had dalglish on the rocks. maybe he didnt acutally speak to bbc either

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I can't say if he spoke to them or not but Lineker did say he refused to talk about that incident to the BBC. Can't see the problem, they'd only have read out what he had said anyway, like they did for Fergie's reaction(s) when he wouldn't speak to them.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Suarez deserves the flak given that assurance to Dalglish beforehand. Fair enough. Personally I still find the handshake a trivial thing that should be left to the players, but obviously Suarez didn't help his club at all. I still find the opportunism of Evra afterwards distasteful (and typical of him, I guess). I'd say he knew he was on a win-win.

This.

I didn't realise Dalglish had come out and said he would do it; he's made him look like an idiot. I still think Evra was just as childish, knew he would get away with any reaction and the media reaction is over the top, but the whole thing is so inevitable it's just as annoying as anything else. And once again we as a club look foolish.

[Ernesto]

Well he wouldn't have got the same 'backlash' because he wasn't the one found guilty of racially abusing another player - the onus is on Suarez to show contrition, especially when his club is under the impression that he would. If you're right about Rio not thinking about things too much then it's entirely possible withdrawing his hand was a snap reaction to what he saw.

We're kinda singing off the same hymn sheet here. He wouldn't have got the same backlash, mainly to do with the fact that it was only about Luis Suarez, Pat Rice Evra and the underlying race row. That we can agree on.

It's just that by snubbing Suarez, Ferdinand made himself an attention-seeker, made himself part of the story and was suddenly considered one of the pre-match handshake 'protagonists'. He could've done a little more to defuse the situation, but that's just me, I suppose.

[Cripps_orig]

Kenny did speak to the BBC but refused to speak about the incident and Jonathan Pearce/Pierce whatever being too much a pussy didnt ask him about it

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Another great save from Hennessey to deny Scharner this time.

[Cripps_orig]

And once again we as a club look foolish.

Tbf, all the YNWA stuff already does that

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Tbf, all the YNWA stuff already does that

Point taken.