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What They Said: Dalglish admits Suarez error

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish confessed Luis Suarez would not have taken the penalty that he subsequently missed in Liverpool's 6-1 FA Cup win over Brighton, had the Reds not already been four goals ahead: "That was a bad decision! There was Andy [Carroll], Charlie [Adam]... if it hadn't been 5-1 one of them would have taken it," Dalglish explained on ESPN. "But it was nice to give him a leg up, help him on his way. The goal will do him no harm. In the end he didn't need my help, big Andy and Jose [Enrique] gave him all the help he needed."

Asked if Carroll potentially should have had a penalty for several mid-air tussles in the first half, Dalglish added: "On another day maybe we'll get a favourable decision for the big man when he's in the box. But everybody did really well, everybody made a contribution. It was excellent, we got off to a good start, but then they equalised through the free-kick. Coming in at 2-1 was a big help. The second half, we were patient and broke quickly so it was a fantastic result for us."

Beaten Brighton boss Gus Poyet struggled to defend his players after they conceded three own goals at Anfield: "I wanted to make sure we didn't concede any silly goals, but there were two or three I was not happy with," Poyet said. "You know that you're going to have to defend, you know your keeper will have to stand up, but we scored three own goals. If you want to play in the Premier League, you need to learn. Nobody likes to lose 6-1."

Triumphant Stoke boss Tony Pulis was in little mood to celebrate following Sunday's 2-0 FA Cup fifth round win over Crawley, after Rory Delap was shown a straight red card in the first half: "The discrepancy between what professionals think is a red card and what the officials think at times is enormous," Pulis told ESPN. "The fourth official, Lee Probert, has made the call, yet you see the Liverpool game [against Newcastle] when Yohan Cabaye caught Jay Spearing and he (Probert) doesn't even give a booking.

"In my opinion, that was the worst challenge we've had in the Premier League this year. So the discrepancy between what we think and what they think is a bad challenge really irks the people in the game. If you see the Cabaye challenge and the challenge today, with Rory Delap, it's chalk and cheese. It's a contact sport, I was very disappointed at the time and, looking at it now, only heightens my disappointment."

Crawley boss Steve Evans also had issues with referee Mike Jones, after a soft penalty led to Stoke's opening goal: "We're in the unusual position of being able to see the footage before we speak to you guys today, and I think we've been on the end of some harsh decisions. They've had every advantage going. The penalty is never a penalty, and we should have had two plus one should be sent off. We've been harshly done by today.

"They change the game. If we get a penalty and it goes to 2-1, Shawcross goes off and Stoke are down to nine men, we wouldn't be out of the cup - we'd have scored again. How the ref can give a penalty to Stoke City is beyond me. The ref is usually good but he's not had a good day today. He's probably thought, 'I've put the Premier League team down to ten men', and that's probably in his mind. There's no way that's a penalty."

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp brushed aside England talk after his side were held to a 0-0 draw by Stevenage: "I've got to get on with the job here. We're still in the cup and we're third in the Premier League," Redknapp told ITV. "We've got to concentrate on that. Tottenham have been fantastic to me and the chairman has been great to me. If I start thinking of other things it will relay to the players. The only focus I have is Tottenham."

Stevenage manager Gary Smith declared himself ''overwhelmed'' with his side's ''terrific'' performance: ''When you are playing against a talented side you are going to have to absorb pressure but I thought we defended magnificently," Smith said. ''We had one or two half-chances we should have made a little bit more of - our dead ball situations are better than that - but overall the performance was outstanding. I'm overwhelmed, it's terrific.''

Asked how he viewed Borough's prospects in the replay, Smith added: ''We've got every chance... we'll go there with a lot of energy and belief. They've got a very tough schedule coming up. They've got Arsenal and Manchester United, with us plugged in somewhere in the middle.''

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