KentBlue
Well-Known Member
We can laugh and crack silly jokes about Salah's diving yesterday because we won - quite handsomely! But I am seriously sick to fucking death of him, Mane, Penandez and Martial constantly throwing themselves down to the ground in the opponents penalty area. Salah yesterday: how the fuck can a slight tug on his shirt have such devastating consequences for his legs? Literally, in slow motion you see his legs collapse from under him the moment his shirt is touched. And yet the ref gives a penalty?
We've seen it from the rags over the years, and now we're seeing it from the dippers too - institutionalised cheating from professional athletes. It really does shame our sport.
Our referees must be the laughing stock of international football. Referees from other countries must watch games from the Premier League and think: 'Small wonder you don't get given major tournaments anymore.'
They must analyse our games in order to teach themselves how not to referee a football match. They probably watch games like the rags against Southampton the other night and stare incredulously at the screen, open-mouthed, awestruck at the sheer incompetence from the game officials.
It's great to laugh at the oh-so-obvious cheating that is rife in the Premier League when you've won a game, but imagine if Salah's 'penalty' had been the only goal of the game yesterday? Imagine how we as City fans would have felt waking up this morning knowing we'd been 100% cheated out of three points...again. Knowing that our lead at the top of the table had been eaten into because of Salah's ridiculous pirouette and the referees unwillingness to apply the rules of the game?
Who knows, in a week or so we might well be on the end of yet another atrocious refereeing decision that could cost us very very dearly in the long run - we certainly won't be laughing then.
We've seen it from the rags over the years, and now we're seeing it from the dippers too - institutionalised cheating from professional athletes. It really does shame our sport.
Our referees must be the laughing stock of international football. Referees from other countries must watch games from the Premier League and think: 'Small wonder you don't get given major tournaments anymore.'
They must analyse our games in order to teach themselves how not to referee a football match. They probably watch games like the rags against Southampton the other night and stare incredulously at the screen, open-mouthed, awestruck at the sheer incompetence from the game officials.
It's great to laugh at the oh-so-obvious cheating that is rife in the Premier League when you've won a game, but imagine if Salah's 'penalty' had been the only goal of the game yesterday? Imagine how we as City fans would have felt waking up this morning knowing we'd been 100% cheated out of three points...again. Knowing that our lead at the top of the table had been eaten into because of Salah's ridiculous pirouette and the referees unwillingness to apply the rules of the game?
Who knows, in a week or so we might well be on the end of yet another atrocious refereeing decision that could cost us very very dearly in the long run - we certainly won't be laughing then.
