Carabao Cup Drama: Magical Mystery Penalty?…
In a plot twist not even Scooby-Doo could solve, Gary Lineker has cheekily hinted that Liverpool might have snagged a golden penalty in their Carabao Cup showdown with Newcastle, when the game was as uneventful as a Monday morning. As Luis Diaz danced towards the goal, he tried chipping a pass over Kieran Trippier, but the ball took a detour, smooching Trippier’s hand on the way.
Lineker, always one to keep us entertained, mused on his podcast, The Rest Is Football, about the curious hand position that might just have earned a spot in an art gallery. “It was like he was doing the YMCA!” Lineker joked, before admitting, “If they’re giving penalties for stuff like that, we might as well just hand out red cards at random.”
Alas, like an overhyped sequel, Liverpool’s hopes fizzled as Dan Burn and Alexander Isak scored for Newcastle, rendering Federico Chiesa’s last-minute sizzle as merely a storytelling footnote. Meanwhile, Arne Slot, Newcastle’s philosophical coach, quipped post-game that trophy droughts are a fan problem, not a player one.
Who would have thought a handball could be so gripping? But in the grand game of football, sometimes the best goals are the ones never scored… unless you’re watching the replay.
