VAR controversy around Liverpool’s penalty at Crystal Palace swamped the mesmerising swing of the boot that led to it
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After 84 minutes and 39 seconds of Liverpool’s win at Crystal Palace on Sunday, Diogo Jota ran on to the ball, chested it, miskicked it, planted his leg into the path of Vicente Guaita and went down. Three seconds of action which Kevin Friend apparently watched 17 times before deciding to give a penalty.
Those three seconds were of course repeated and analysed by Sky Sports, and by Sky Sports News, by Match of the Day and all over
Social Media – the moment has been viewed almost 400,000 times on Sky Sports’
Twitter from just after the game. If you add all the posts, fan pages and every account that uploaded it to every platform, it amounts to millions of us repeatedly watching a man sliding into another man and falling on the ground.