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Former ref Dermot Gallagher was in no doubt about what he had witnessed. During Liverpool’s drama-tastic draw against Tottenham, assistant referee Eddie Smart had, Gallagher insisted, “covered himself in glory”, getting all the important decisions bang-on. But if the eagle-eyed flag-flutterer left Anfield with his head held high, others were a little more bemused. “The first penalty, it was one of the clearest offside situations I have seen,” growled Jürgen Klopp. “Unless there’s a new rule. Is there? When the ball left the foot of the Tottenham player, Harry Kane is offside. This situation has never changed. My defence put Kane offside, that’s good defending. At the end I’ve learned something new and now people will think I know nothing about football because I thought it was offside.”

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