By Chris Wright
After entering the game tied with Brian McBride on 36 goals, Clint Dempsey became the highest-scoring American player in Premier League history when, in the 85th-minute, he pounced on Pepe Reina’s fumble to tap home the winner for Fulham at Craven Cottage.
The woodwork took what’s known in the trade as ‘a peppering’ and Liverpool also saw Jay Spearing sent-off for an over-zealous, flying, two-footed challenge on Moussa Dembele, and rightly so I would wager. It’s been contested that Spearing won the ball. True, but he also left the ground and planted his studs firmly into Dembele’s fleshy bits into the bargain. It was a dangerous tackle and there can be no argument as far as I’m concerned. Straight red all day long.
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