Referees/Officials

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Diabolical and it's the same every week.

I'm done as I can't and won't justify spending so much time, energy and money on this bullshit.

No other sport has such consistently poor officiating.

Well, I say sport but let's face it, it's more Prime-Time TV Show these days.
 
Pingu the Penguin said:
Webb in the studio said the serg incident wasn't a pen tho. Video refereeing isn't a panacea
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Webb never knew his arse from his elbow. The sojourns he made to The Swamp were more than testament to that! There is no panacea for having a game called correctly from start to finish, but by all that is holy we have seen this season that there is a hell of a way to improve it! God knows how many goals we've been diddled out of and how many decisions have screwed us.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Webb never knew his arse from his elbow. The sojourns he made to The Swamp were more than testament to that! There is no panacea for having a game called correctly from start to finish, but by all that is holy we have seen this season that there is a hell of a way to improve it! God knows how many goals we've been diddled out of and how many decisions have screwed us.
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it matters as it's his ilk, or the current shower, who will be making the decisions!
 
Pingu the Penguin said:
Webb in the studio said the serg incident wasn't a pen tho. Video refereeing isn't a panacea
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Very true, and what's worse is that it won't resolve average incompetence, like the foul on Yaya in the build up two the second although i'll give him the debatable (blue tinted) could that Company gave away

Webb, however, did concede ground following all of the pundits questioning his sanity in saying it wasn't a foul; it blatantly was
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Or with some footballers who had some bottle. That is as poor an Arsenal team as I can remember and, playing the ball quickly, we take the officials out of the game and win it easily. These fucking players get a free pass every week, based on some poor officiating. I'm not defending some of the decisions out there but: Nacho-free header, Ota-free header, Fern-free header, Sterling playing the invisible man, Sane making poor decisions all game, Clichy back to his usual form, Navas turning round and round and producing nothing. Kompany giving soft fouls away then dropping back and playing everyone onside for their winner.
Finally, Guardiola is taking us nowhere fast. Apart from Sane, that was almost exactly the side Pellegrini would have picked. Not only that, but if Pellers had still been here, that result would have had nothing to do with the officials, he'd have just been a senile, old ****.
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This is the best post I've read so far. That is a Pellegrini team out there with a Pellegrini performance. IF not for Yaya pulling us out of the mud for the entire second half and ET, it would have been a lot worse. Yes the ref was poor, but we put in the same turgid performance that has become all to familiar. Our fullbacks were painfully out of depth AGAIN and it showed from minute 1.
 
simon23 said:
mistakes by the officials did cost us today.....there will be some that say its deliberate others that say its just human error......

the aguero one was a penalty but similarly so is the navas one. The disallowed goal is just poor from the linesman who got it wrong......

Bad decisions but deliberate I don't know...it would have to be one huge bloody conspiracy if that is the case (and before anyone says, i understand the reasons why there could be a conspiracy and agree with them).....Im just not sure if its deliberate or not
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The thing is, these "human errors" seem to be happening every week, and only seem to go(in the majority) against us. We've probably had more dodgy decisions, in one season, than most teams would get over the course of a few. This season has been, on another level, something is definitely amiss, of this I have no doubts whatsoever.
 
der bomber28 said:
The thing is, these "human errors" seem to be happening every week, and only seem to go(in the majority) against us. We've probably had more dodgy decisions, in one season, than most teams would get over the course of a few. This season has been, on another level, something is definitely amiss, of this I have no doubts whatsoever.
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hmmm...maybe but again it would have to be a huge conspiracy.

the penalty today was one but he dint give the one against navas either.

the disallowed goal....well its bad decision by the lino not the ref but he does put his flag up straight away which says to me even though he was wrong he was doing it honestly ......it was a gut reaction and he does it before the ball is put in by aguero (and then sterling).....wrong decision but I'm not sure is blatant cheating
 
mat said:
https://you-are-the-ref.com/ref-cam/

A refs blog on the match. Very interesting...
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I can write Thurdsday's for him now to save him the bother. I didn't go today, and I've not missed a Wembley trip since 1981, because I knew what was going to unfold. We will get shafted on Thursday too, of that I have no doubt. After the Chelsea game, where a known United fan is allowed to officiate, I said that was it for me. Having had a season ticket since 1975 I'm giving up. It's bent. I have no doubt.
 
That's me done with the game today. Seen enough. Saw my first game Live with David pleat running across Maine road, and thought that was bad. Which it was, but at least it was honest. 41 now and I'm done.

I'll always be a blue but never giving my money to something so corrupt ever again..... I'd be complicit otherwise....

Good luck to those who continue to fight on......
 
manchester blue said:
I can write Thurdsday's for him now to save him the bother. I didn't go today, and I've not missed a Wembley trip since 1981, because I knew what was going to unfold. We will get shafted on Thursday too, of that I have no doubt. After the Chelsea game, where a known United fan is allowed to officiate, I said that was it for me. Having had a season ticket since 1975 I'm giving up. It's bent. I have no doubt.
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And that is there end game piss of the city fans that much we throw the towel in and give up on a club we love!
 
Pingu the Penguin said:
it matters as it's his ilk, or the current shower, who will be making the decisions!
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Off the top of my head the decisions via VAR that will still remain 'iffy' would be, say, 10% of the ones they bugger up currently. We might cop for all of them, still, but if the VAR is gonna adopt a rugby style scrutiny, viewed from different angles, and the refs know it will be scrutinised by their 'peers' it will be a situation that can only improve. The offside decisions with clear daylight that aren't given, are eliminated at a stroke. No VAR can ignore the black and white of a player being a yard offside. And the decision yesterday for the pen would be a yellow card if the laws were applied as they were written. VAR will not solve everything but it will produce a result that matches more correctly what has gone on during the game.
 
I almost wish the club would make a compilation video with all the decisions that went against us and showed it to the FA.
 
Don Karleone said:
We did take our chance, it was disallowed for fuck all!
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This is the point that a lot of disillusioned City fans would make. We do the right thing on the pitch, we might miss a hatful, but if we are suggesting that we have to create more chances than the norm in order to overcome those legitimate goals that get chalked off, then I can see why fans have had enough, and why players heads go down. Shafted, either by incompetence, or plain cheating.
 
Craig Pawson and the other officials just delivered a master class in how to fix a football match.
Just how the feck did they only end up with two bookings and we got six!
 
There's far too much polite sensitivity, too much 'we're in it for the long game' and ultimately 'our good works and excellent players will win'. Pellegrini got away with being charmingly polite in his first season, but then the other teams were considerably weaker. Mancini was savvy enough to know that he was facing decades of bias and prejudice, and he was regularly in the faces of the referees, letting them know his feelings, and rocking the boat. Having Platt chirp away 'to the English press didn't do him any harm either.

I really don't want to hear any more 'referees need to talk' and 'it's very difficult' comments next year; we need a far more prickly and assertive approach.
 
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