Disagree about the "far better football", but anyway, you guys really need another keeper, i´ve never seen anything like it before, its like the guy is incapable of making a save LOL, look at the diference today between Courtois and Bravo, its scary.We play far better football yet because we keep conceding we continue to lose ground. It really isnt that difficult to stop conceding from every shot, then we might have a chance to reel them in.
16 more games to play. We have an outside chance of winning the league but I will settle for top four to build on next year. It's a struggle trying to play catch up with a team that doesn't have a CL campaign. I really don't want chelsea to win it. Maybe it's Conte, maybe them being outright cheats in Etihad.
Disagree about the "far better football", but anyway, you guys really need another keeper, i´ve never seen anything like it before, its like the guy is incapable of making a save LOL, look at the diference today between Courtois and Bravo, its scary.
It's not incompetence when it happens in one direction.
Wouldn't be so worried about Chelea winning, really. We're not going to catch them. Arsenal getting that late penalty was a bit of a pisser though. Make no bones about it, a top 4 spot this season (with our non-existent defence and keeper) will be some achievement.And don't forget, we've still got to go the Emirates and Stamford Bridge. Time to get busy.
I was in fairness talking about the Arsenal game, posters were calling the ref shit bent etc... which doesn't make sense as he gave a penalty each. The linesman was incompetent and if people want a mad agenda theory at least point it at the right guy
It was the lack of offside that was the contentious decision which is totally linesman. That was a very high kick from Mee so was a pen for me. I have seen them not given but it would be a free kick anywhere else on the pitch.
Precisely, we have got some shit decisions alright and I wouldn't trust a certain ref for sure but people looking at every game from a anti city slant will lead to madness, it also dilutes any genuine concerns we have, we just end up sounding like the rags.
It is annoying as it keeps happening and some are worst than others but like Ric alluded to in another post, all the sendings off have been of our own doing this season and correct decisions. Yes Rojo should have been sent off twice as I have read 500 times but refs being wrong in another game doesn't make our sending off decisions wrong.
Someone suggested in the Everton post match thread that we would have won had we got the pen. There is absolutely no way of knowing that with the defending we do. I couldn't see us throwing 2 points away yesterday from being in total control, but we did. We concede way too many goals and I don't remember too many of them being that contentious. Just terrible defending on the whole.
Whilst we should make more noise about it as a club to get in the refs heads and try and gain some advantage, like Mourinho did to some effect earlier in the season when it wasn't going well for them, we have to do what we can to cut out the sloppy play at both ends of the pitch and make the refs decisions irrelevant. The match day threads often have us getting 6 "nailed on" penalties a game. It's ludicrous.
If people believe the game to be corrupt to the degree it is debated on here then surely you stop going? I have to believe it's just rank incompetence on the whole and if I didn't believe that I would have to give it up.
I also get confused with whether it is an anti city agenda or a pro rag and dipper agenda. If it's the latter, I don't see how giving Arsenal a late pen helps them at all. If anything the sending off and pen for Burnley should be a stronger argument for the latter.