Jamie Carragher gives Liverpool final VAR red card verdict after 'horrific' Spurs flashpoint

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And the reason I say this, and we're going to slow it down a lot now, and maybe that makes the tackle look a lot worse, but when I've been a player, the only thing I can think he's trying to do is, Virgil van Dijk's maybe going to go back to his goalkeeper, and you know sometimes when there's such a big difference in the size and power and you're trying to leave one on somebody, almost knock them off the ball.READ MORE: Liverpool handed new verdict on Micky Van de Ven's 'leg-breaking' Alexander Isak tackleREAD MORE: Steven Gerrard makes Jose Mourinho admission after backing out of Chelsea transfer"I just want to really look at his eyes - look at the way his arms are going. He's looking at the top of Virgil van Dijk; I actually think he's just clumsy and he doesn't realise where his feet are going."I think he thinks, 'I'm gonna leave one on him.' We've all done that, and give him a bit of a whack, maybe knock him over and give a foul.

And look at his arms the way they come up now, to almost give a shove to him."Now I know the tackle will look horrific because it's really slowed down now, but his arms are there to go, 'I'm gonna give Van Dijk a bit of a knock on the back.' And I almost think he's not even aware of where his foot is going and he's just caught him on the back."And when you see it there it looks horrific and you can't almost say it's not a red card when you look at it like that, but I'm trying to put myself in his head and think what he was thinking and that thing of like, we've all done it as players where you think, 'I'll just give someone a shoulder barge.'"But because the difference in size is so big he's almost overdone it and he's just got clumsy where his foots gone. He's lunging, he's going into him.

Because he's scored, they've let it go."He's lunged, he's out of control. He's slightly late... it's not a red card.