I've seen the penalty again and it's not as clear cut as I first thought, it's hard to tell though. Valencia went down quite easily once he got in the box but you can't really tell how much of the fall was 'diving' and how much was from Mascherano pulling his shirt/arm and brushing his legs.
At the end of the day all teams get soft penalties, you can say it was 'never a pen' but neither was the one in the 2005 CL final which had far greater ramifications for you lot. I'd be more concerned about the total lack of interest Gerrard showed and how you barely created a chance apart from the goal where we fell asleep in the first five minutes.
There was nothing wrong with Neville's challenge, he took the ball cleanly and Maxi's head was low. I haven't seen the Fletcher/Kuyt incident again yet so can't comment on that but it seemed typical of a heated game, like any derby. It didn't seem petulant, Fletcher seemed genuinely pissed off about something Kuyt did but like I said I haven't seen it properly in decent quality.
And I don't think what SAF said had anything to do with Webb, like I said before he's just not very good. Nobody has said he's the best ref in the world Dags, your just being facetious and you know it. Webb wasn't great but but not half as bad as you're making out. I watched SAF's press conference, the journo asked him what he thought about Gerrard not being banned and he just criticised the disciplinary process at the FA, nothing to do with the referees and was quite matter of fact about it, no big rant like it was portrayed in the press.
At the end of the day it's sad that we're talking about a ref's performance considering how bad you lot were when there's far more interesting talking points like Vidic putting to bed the thing about Torres owning him, Gerrard's disappearing act, how you lot should move forward etc etc etc.