THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING Saturday’s Premier League clash between Liverpool and Manchester United hasn’t been limited to Patrice Evra’s allegations of racial abuse.
Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam has also come in for some stern criticism from a member of Manchester United’s back line.
In a post-match interview apparently “too inflammatory” for broadcast on MUFC, the club’s digital news channel, Phil Jones accused the Scot of diving in order to win the free-kick from which Stephen Gerrard scored Liverpool’s only goal of the game.
According to the Guardian, producers acted on the advice of senior club figures before scrapping the interview.
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Responding to the accusation, Adam denied he engaged in any form of simulation:
“I felt a touch and if I hadn’t gone down I would have been clear through on goal so there must have been contact. That’s the way I look at it. I felt contact when I went past Rio and that’s the way it goes.”
Rio Ferdinand, the player deemed to have committed the foul, later admitted to making “the slighest contact” with the midfielder, but remained unconvinced his intervention could have proven sufficient to bring Adam to ground.
Adam defiant in the face of criticism
THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING Saturday’s Premier League clash between Liverpool and Manchester United hasn’t been limited to Patrice Evra’s allegations of racial abuse.
Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam has also come in for some stern criticism from a member of Manchester United’s back line.
In a post-match interview apparently “too inflammatory” for broadcast on MUFC, the club’s digital news channel, Phil Jones accused the Scot of diving in order to win the free-kick from which Stephen Gerrard scored Liverpool’s only goal of the game.
According to the Guardian, producers acted on the advice of senior club figures before scrapping the interview.
Responding to the accusation, Adam denied he engaged in any form of simulation:
Rio Ferdinand, the player deemed to have committed the foul, later admitted to making “the slighest contact” with the midfielder, but remained unconvinced his intervention could have proven sufficient to bring Adam to ground.
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