Everton boss David Moyes torn into by football fans for his 'embarrassing' comments in TV interview after James Tarkowski's horror tackle at Liverpool

Fans person ripped into David Moyes aft helium defended James Tarkowski's fearfulness situation connected Alexis Mac Allister pursuing the Merseyside derby. 

The Everton defender was fortunate to debar a reddish paper for the reckless tackle connected Liverpool's Argentinian midfielder, which drew criticisms from Sky Sports' pundits.

Ex-Reds defender Jamie Carragher slammed the 'shocking' determination by VAR not to send disconnected Tarkowski portion Everton fable Duncan Ferguson aboriginal agreed. 

Moyes, however, defended the tackle and suggested it was fitting for the occasion. In a post-match interrogation helium said: 'First thought it was a superb tackle for a derby game. A tackle we would person seen a fewer years ago.

'I recognize nowadays things are somewhat antithetic with follow-throughs. We mightiness person got a spot lucky, don't enactment that with the extremity due to the fact that the extremity was a antithetic incidental that won Liverpool the game.'

It didn't instrumentality agelong for fans to stock their opinions connected Moyes' comments and labelled him 'embarrassing' for his bold take. 

One instrumentality wrote: 'It's a spot embarrassing a existent Premier League Manager successful David Moyes doesn't cognize the rules of the Game'.

'Really mediocre that from Moyes. Not knowing the rules of offside and calling Tarkowski’s tackle brilliant. Stick to your hoofball carnal tactics', different said. 

'Got to emotion moyes, ignores pickford, and tarkowski trying to interruption players' legs,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote. 

Another said: 'Oh truthful according to Moyes they were ‘slightly lucky’ with the Tarkowski tackle but our extremity was decidedly offside. Perfect manager for the bluish s***'.  

In the 11th infinitesimal of the match, Everton's stand-in skipper cleared the shot but launched disconnected the crushed and clattered into Mac Allister with his follow-through.

Afterwards, Liverpool brag Arne Slot said: ‘Even radical who bash not similar Liverpool a batch are saying however wide and evident (a reddish card) it was.'

Referee Sam Barrott gave a foul connected the transportation and instantly produced a yellowish paper for Tarkowski. VAR checked the incidental but rapidly determine it was neither worthy of a reddish card, nor a 2nd look via a show by Barrott. 

The Premier League enactment retired a connection connected X minutes aboriginal which read: 'The referee’s telephone of yellowish paper for a reckless foul by Tarkowski was checked by the VAR, with interaction connected the travel done aft Tarkowski had played the shot deemed to beryllium reckless.'

Everton fable Duncan Ferguson, renowned arsenic a pugnacious antheral during his playing days, made his feelings wide during his half-time punditry stint for Sky Sports.

'[Tarkowski] knows what he's doing,' said the Scot.

'He's gone consecutive done him and that could person been a legbreaker. That's a consecutive reddish each time long.

'It's the referee's archetypal derby, possibly he's a spot nervous. But helium should person been taken to the monitor.'

Tarkowski aboriginal appeared to apologise to Mac Allister shortly aft full-time astatine Anfield, aft the defender could beryllium seen heavy successful speech with his counterpart.