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'A VERY, VERY UNFAIR DECISION'
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Gerrard claims Mourinho's men hounded referee into awarding penalty

Liverpool - The antipathy that has consumed matches between Liverpool and
Chelsea in recent times flared again at Anfield on Sunday when Steven
Gerrard, incensed by what he perceived to be pressure exerted by visiting
players on the referee, suggested Rob Styles had "cracked" in awarding a
penalty that handed the Londoners a point.

The contest had lurched beyond the hour mark with the hosts leading
through Fernando Torres' first Premiership goal when Shaun
Wright-Phillips' cross bypassed Florent Malouda on the edge of the
Liverpool area.

The France international jumped on the turn and stumbled into Steve
Finnan, yet Styles, who booked nine players and at one stage seemed to
show Michael Essien a second yellow, only to fail to send him off, awarded
a spot-kick.

Frank Lampard scored to preserve Chelsea's unbeaten start to the campaign,
with Liverpool left embittered by Styles' display.

"A very, very unfair decision got Chelsea a point," said Gerrard. "I felt
as if the referee didn't play well today. There was a lot of pressure from
Chelsea players and, eventually, he cracked."

While Gerrard's call for Styles to apologise has occurred (see story
below), Jose Mourinho, who previously had contested decisions here -
notably the award of Luis García's goal to clinch the Champions League
semi-final second leg two years ago - was adamant his team had not
influenced the official.

"My players? I think I have a naive team," he said. "They are naive
because they are pure and they are clean.

"We don't have divers, we don't have violent people, we don't have people
with nasty tackles or people diving into the swimming pool.

"We've had decisions go against us and we've been unfortunate in this
stadium so many times with the referee's decision," the Portuguese added.
"Not every player on the pitch was helping the referee. Maybe some of
those from a different culture didn't help the referee. Perhaps there were
too many cards. But, overall, I thought Mr Styles had a positive game."

That last comment appeared to be directed towards the home side's Spanish
players, Alvaro Arbeloa and Torres. John Terry was incensed by what he
clearly considered to have been a dive from Torres in the incident which
led to Essien appearing to be shown a second card.

Styles told the fourth official he had not booked the Ghanaian for
dissent. "You can check how many times they do things he (Mourinho) says
that they don't do," said Benítez, the long-standing rift between the two
managers evident yet again.

"I remember a lot of situations in the last three years. Today you could
see the players talking all the time. But I'd prefer not to talk about
that.

"As for the penalty, there were 45,000 people here and nobody saw a
penalty. I want to have a lot of respect for referees, but sometimes you
cannot understand why they do things. It's impossible to explain that.

"How can you make a decision like that after we'd worked so hard?
Unbelievable. Unbelievable."

The Spaniard's frustration was Mourinho's relief. "A point for us here is
two points lost for Liverpool. But we still tried to win the game. We're
playing a different way this year - a different football, a different
smell." - The Guardian