red rag

Fairclough added wearing number one "was like waving a red rag to a bull at that level of football".

"That was a red rag to a bull" she explains.

Barely a week after a 6-0 humbling at Chelsea they were a team transformed, the sight of Liverpool like a red rag to a bull.

"What was being said was a red rag to a bull for the far right and others. But what concerned me the most was if you're an innocent listener of this. Because it's a secret undercover recording, in inverted commas, because it sounds like me, because of the timing and the context."

“Azov was like a red rag for them,” he said.