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Published 10:37 7 Mar 2016 GMT
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BUT!...if he did, it wasn't enough to cause the Belgian to go down in the manner that he did. We're glad that that's been cleared up.
Following manager Alan Pardew's bizarre post-match behaviour, Delaney took to his Instagram account to protest his innocent...but ended up somewhat contradicting himself.
"I can honestly say I didn't make contact with benteke today and IF there was slight contact I didn't impede him and certainly didn't feel there was enough to award a penalty in the 96th min... "If a penalty is awarded that late it has to be unequivocal, I waited over an hour to speak with the officials and in fairness to Andre Marriner he said he didn't think it was a penalty but he trusted his linesman that much he awarded it. "With the way the game was ref'd and the physicality of both teams it was unbelievably harsh. With how Wilfred and Yannick were man handled by Liverpool players over the course of the game, which I've no problem with, it was a really tough decision to take so late. All I can do is swallow it and hope to put this right."
As you can probably guess, there were plenty of Liverpool fans at hand to point out the flaws in the Palace man's argument and mock his flip-flopping story... https://twitter.com/majortom_LFC/status/706768834372317184 https://twitter.com/RedsOrDead/status/706774935113502720 https://twitter.com/diasporational/status/706785798713167872 https://twitter.com/Corballyred/status/706762897712611329 https://twitter.com/DottyLiverpool/status/706775959341367296 https://twitter.com/SuperGops/status/706785232620560384 https://twitter.com/SamMcGuire90/status/706766860138749953
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