Liverpool striker Luis Suárez 'steals' Mansfield Town's dream of financially lucrative FA Cup replay at Anfield "It feels a bit like the result was stolen from us," Radford said. Whether it was deliberate or not, it should be sorted out. It is very unfortunate that the referees and officials can't pick up these things. We should be a least having a replay. Handballs are obviously de rigueur. Suárez's goal prompted chants of 'cheat" from the home supporters and while goalkeeper Marriott stopped short of repeating that accusation, he claimed that even Suárez's team-mates expected the goal to be disallowed. "The lads have seen his [Suárez's] reaction," Marriott said. When you see Suárez laughing as he kicks the ball across the line, he knows himself what happened. Even Stewart Downing said to us that he could not believe professional officials missed that. When it turns out to be the decisive goal, then it's a sickener for everyone. It's football. I don't think you can call him a cheat. I know a lot of people have in the past. I was asking the linesman and he was on his toes to the halfway line. If anyone was going to see it, it was him with the hand which Suárez used. Just before it goes over the line, he volleyed it and he had a smile on his face. I think everyone knows that you wait for the referee to blow. But on this occasion, the officials have missed it. Despite admitting that Suárez used his hand, however, Rodgers was vehement in his defence of the player, who was infamously sent off in a World Cup quarter-final against Ghana in 2010 for handling a goalbound shot on the line. Rodgers said: "It hit his hand, no question, but it was not deliberate and I asked the fourth official if it was handball and he said it was not deliberate and he allowed it. What do you want him [Suárez ] to do in that situation? The ball has hit him and it is up to the officials what they do. But he has thick skin and people are starting to recognise the ability he has. He is a wonderful professional and people need to appreciate him. It's not his job to own up. If it was anybody else, we wouldn't be discussing it. Hitting his hand it is not his fault. Mansfield manager Paul Cox claimed his team were the victims of poor decisions. But Cox, celebrating his 41st birthday on Sunday, insisted that he had no axe to grind with Suárez for the goal which denied the club a lucrative replay at Anfield. "What Suárez did was instinctive and we should embrace him as a football talent rather than have a go," Cox said. He did what any striker would have done. I can't be two-faced on that. If Matt Green [Mansfield striker] had done it, I'd have accepted it. In the second half, we had two blatant handballs against us. Referees and linesmen have the hardest job in football but you do want them to accept the blatant ones. We've been here before ... just ask the Ghanaians Luis Suárez's handball on Sunday was far from the most controversial of his career. "The Hand of God now belongs to me," he declared in 2010 after he denied Ghana a winner in the dying second of extra-time in their World Cup quarter-final against Uruguay by palming the ball off the goalline. He was penalised for that handball, which prevented a certain goal, with a red card, but Asamoah Gyan missed the penalty and Uruguay went on to win the shoot out. Suárez said after the game: "I made the best save of the tournament. Sometimes in training I play as a goalkeeper so it was worth it. There was no alternative but for me to do that. For his troubles, he was banned for the semi-final, which Uruguay lost to Holland.