Just watched the PK given to Newcastle for a shirt tug in the box from a dead ball. Makes an absolute joke of the shirt pull and handball by the same player on the same play in the last minute!
ABSOLUTE FUCKING JOKE!
Now, throw in the challenge on KDB on the edge of the box by Caicedo, who was already on a yellow, that Madley allowed the “advantage” (which he deemed was better than a direct free kick 20 yards from goal!) and that should have been a second yellow and OFF!
But, in true PGMOL fashion, Bernardo challenges Caicedo for a loose ball, wins it but grazes him on the outside of the foot…Caicedo screams…and a foul AND YELLOW CARD for Bernardo! Wasn’t even a foul!!!
It gets tiresome, and I try very hard not to be a conspiracy theorist, but we really do not get many calls at all!
Another simple example…Madley is 5 yards from the challenge when Caicedo goes in on a falling Doku. Stamps right through his shin. Blatant, right in front of the ref. Doku looks up in disbelief as the ref not only doesn’t give the blatant yellow card, but doesn’t even give the foul!
I know whining about the officiating is boring, but with the linesmen not flagging for obvious offsides ending in injuries, and refs not making blatantly obvious calls, and VAR not having the least bit of consistency, and City never getting the fouls we’re due in the box (where we spend about 1/4 of the game), especially the holding and shirt pulling, I’ve had enough! Sick of it. And, today, sick of it costing us 2 points when it also cost us 2 points in the return fixture!
The handball will get glossed over and people will say Haaland should have won it on his own, but that obviously ignores the reality that if City would just get the calls we deserve, then Haaland wouldn’t have to score every opportunity!
