Referees have always made it hard for themselves.
For whatever reason, only they know.
VAR is there to make it easy for them but it's not working.
When they said they were bringing it in I was all for it but the only thing it's good for right now is offside decisions.
The foul by Victor Lindelof on Divock Origi is blatant. I'm a centre-forward, I know when it's a foul or not.
I know that players sometimes feign and go over but the referee has guessed.
VAR then gives them another chance to rectify it but they're useless.
If that decision had gone against Manchester United, they'd be going absolutely berserk.
The decision to disallow Sadio Mane's equaliser is very unfortunate.
It's touched his hand but that's a goal in every other previous year because there's no intent.
We've taken a sucker punch at Old Trafford so we've got to hope it evens itself out over the entire season.
If people don't do their job in life they get sacked or there's some kind of retribution.
Why doesn't that seem to happen with referees – or VAR officials?
The person responsible should be put at the back of the queue now to take control of future games.
Everyone in world football has looked at that and has said: “He's hit him. It's a foul, take it back.”
But he's let it go on for another 20-30 seconds and it's ended up in the back of the net. It's wrong.
We all know that it was a really poor decision and then Ole Gunnar Solskjaer comes on and underlines it even more by saying that the referee had a really good game.
The Manchester United manager has made himself look silly there.
For me it didn't take someone with a superior knowledge of football to see that the referee's decisions favoured United.
Every 50-50 call went their way. Fabinho was booked for Liverpool but United didn't get any yellow cards. They should have had about four.
I don't want to make too much of it. We suffered because of the officials but we also suffered because of our performance.
We weren't creative in midfield and Bobby Firmino was coming too deep into their midfield and their back three had nobody to mark and move them around which didn't help us.
We shouldn't be talking just about VAR though – it's the worst that we've played for some time. The lads will be disappointed.
If you mark teams and give their performance a score out of 10 then Liverpool were about 5.5 whereas I'd give Manchester United about 7.5 considering what they had on the pitch.
That's why we struggled. United played like Wimbledon used to years ago. They had two fast lads up front, hitting long balls for the pace of Daniel James and Marcus Rashford to cause us a few problems and defended well like they had to against us.
That's the way they see fit to do things against us right now because we're so far ahead of them – you've got to do it, I understand that.
The fact that we came away with the draw is less than what we deserved but we'll take it.
There are no easy games. I knew this was going to be a tough game. United had a young team with nothing to lose and they were always going to scrap.
They're a middle of the road side and they're jumping for joy because they drew with Liverpool. That's how far we've come under Jurgen Klopp.
The winning sequence may be over but it was important to keep up our unbeaten run.
Reds subs changed the game and we could have gone on to win it
It didn't matter that Manchester United went into the game a point above the relegation zone, it's always an occasion when Liverpool play them.
It can get to you. Your heart can rule your head and you don't play your natural game.
But this is a team that was there for the taking like last year but we got ourselves out of jail and showed character late on.
The three lads that came on did really well. I just thought it might have been done 10-to-15 minutes earlier because we didn't look like we were going to break them down.
When we made the substitutions though it totally changed the game so you've got to give Jurgen Klopp credit for that.
We were creative, moving the ball quicker and if there had been another five or 10 minutes in the game then we'd have gone on and won it 2-1.
At least we preserved our unbeaten record and we know we can do a lot better so at least there are some positives to take out of the game.
Teams who play like United did invariably tire in the last 15 minutes because they'd worked so hard to try and stop us. They'd worked their socks off and it's very difficult to keep that up for 90 minutes.
Over the past year, Liverpool have scored more goals in the last 15 minutes of games than anyone else which shows how we grind teams down. We've got to make the most of it in the latter stages of matches which we have been doing.
Lallana gives us a different dimension
Getting the equaliser will have been a big moment for Adam Lallana.
He has struggled big time with injuries but that's the most mobile I've seen him for a couple of years. He was getting on the ball and doing what we know he can, shifting the play and getting the other side of players.
Adam did really well, you just hope he can progress now. You don't want him getting injured again because there are a lot of games to play, including cup games, and he gives you a different dimension coming off the bench.
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He knows at times that he's looked a pale shadow of his former self but like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was running at them and then Naby Keita, he's made an impact.
Keita only had a little cameo but he was influential. He wanted the ball all the time, kept moving and although it was just a simple pass to Andy Robertson, he put in a fantastic cross that was a striker's delight to get on the end of.
It worked a treat.
