Your Liverpool evening headlines for Tuesday, March 22
FA 'ignored travel warnings' as Liverpool and Man City semi-final controversy continues
The Football Association stand accused of ignoring warnings about the travel disruption that will affect tens of thousands of Liverpool and Manchester City fans heading to Wembley next month.
Both sets of supporters face a logistical nightmare getting to London for their FA Cup semi-final clash due to no running trains from the North West to the capital over the Easter weekend.
Avanti West Coast confirmed it will not be running any trains into London Euston from April 15 to 18 because of engineering work that is scheduled to take place across a number of locations.
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Services from Liverpool Lime Street will start and terminate at Rugby across the long weekend, while trains from Manchester Piccadilly will begin and end at Milton Keynes Central and run via Stoke-on-Trent.
However, the ECHO has learned the FA were made aware of the potential travel chaos for football fans as far back as 2019.
Read the full story from Paul Gorst.
Jack Grealish has just summed up unfair Mohamed Salah treatment for Liverpool
Football contains many curiosities and unanswerable questions. Unfortunately for clubs and their fans, a great deal of them revolve around referees and their decisions.
Many pundits and supporters questioned why Diogo Jota was awarded a penalty in Liverpool’s recent win at Crystal Palace, while similar numbers failed to understand how Everton were not awarded one when Manchester City won 1-0 at Goodison Park last month. However, there’s one issue which has annoyed Jurgen Klopp and it regards the level of protection Mohamed Salah receives from match officials.
“There is a statistic, I am not exactly sure who had it, but the statistic is that Mo is the one player who is fouled the least compared to other strikers,” he said in a press conference ahead of Liverpool's 2-0 win at Arsenal. "It is absolutely crazy how low the number of fouls is against him when the referee doesn't whistle. So he has constant contact [from defenders] and is going down all the time, having to get up again, stuff like this," Klopp added.
Read the full story from Andrew Beasley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold sends injury update as Liverpool recovery begins
Trent Alexander-Arnold has shared a sneak peak at his recovery from a hamstring injury, offering hope to Liverpool supporters that he will be back in action sooner rather than later.
The Reds' right-back withdrew from the England squad yesterday after missing Liverpool's FA Cup quarter-final tie with Nottingham Forest on Sunday.
Sharing an image of an exercise bike in a gym via Instagram Stories on his official page, Alexander-Arnold included text that read 'the comeback kid' alongside some boxing gloves, before going on to display a training ground image from what is understood to be the NAS Sports Complex in Dubai.
