The worst thing about farcical officiating

The one that's been irritating me recently is the idea that Rashford was very clever to leave it for Fernandes. It's utter bollocks. Fernandes is obviously the one that gives him the call to leave it. If Fernandes hadn't done that, Rashford would have clearly taken on the shot oblivious to the fact that he was offside. When a player knows they're offside, they slow down and make a show of demonstrating that they're not interfering, they don't just run after the ball as normal.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
The one that's been irritating me recently is the idea that Rashford was very clever to leave it for Fernandes. It's utter bollocks. Fernandes is obviously the one that gives him the call to leave it. If Fernandes hadn't done that, Rashford would have clearly taken on the shot oblivious to the fact that he was offside. When a player knows they're offside, they slow down and make a show of demonstrating that they're not interfering, they don't just run after the ball as normal.
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A similar thing happened in the first half. A ball came Rashford’s way, clearly in an offside position and he refrained from touching it initially, knowing as soon as he did, the flag would go up. But then he couldn’t resist anymore and kicked it anyway. No doubt if Fernandez was a fraction of a second later on the scene, he would have shot himself.
 
Bar the OTT headline, Wheeler agrees (in the small print) the goal shouldn’t have stood.

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City_Sean said:
Just had a look back over recent derby fixtures. The last time we had a penalty in the derby v them in league was in 2007.

United have had 12. That's incredible.
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I think if you look at the stats over a longer period it would be even more startling.
 
I’ve just rewatched the match—because I am a masochist—and the officiating was even worse than I remembered.

Nearly everything went for United, even ignoring that farcical goal.

50/50 challenges? 80% to United.
Penalty claims? 100% to United.
Offside calls? 90% to United.
Fouls-to-Bookings? 100% to United.

They had 15 fouls and only 3 yellow cards, with Malacia puting in about 5 of them on Mahrez with no booking. And they had many other fouls that weren’t called. We had 5 fouls.

Phil was immediately flagged for very tight offsides by the same ref that kept his flag down for the Interpretative Movement Ghost Goal.

The bias toward United is so blatant the only explanation is that the league just doesn’t care how obvious it. They aren’t even trying to hide it. And with the United support through the industry and world, the ‘cry more’ drama and controversy at City’s expense is perhaps exactly what they wanted.

It’s infuriating.
 
SebastianBlue said:
I’ve just rewatched the match—because I am a masochist—and the officiating was even worse than I remembered.

Nearly everything went for United, even ignoring that farcical goal.

50/50 challenges? 80% to United.
Penalty claims? 100% to United.
Offside calls? 90% to United.
Fouls-to-Bookings? 100% to United.

They had 15 fouls and only 3 yellow cards, with Malacia puting in about 5 of them on Mahrez with no booking. And they had many other fouls that weren’t called. We had 5 fouls.

Phil was immediately flagged for very tight offsides by the same ref that kept his flag down for the Interpretative Movement Ghost Goal.

The bias toward United is so blatant the only explanation is that the league just doesn’t care. They aren’t even trying to hide it. And with the United support through the industry and world, the ‘cry more’ drama and controversy at City’s expense is perhaps exactly what they wanted.

It’s infuriating.
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I'm not sure that it's the league just "don't care". I'd say they are ACTIVELY encouraging it.
 
In the whole of the Premier League era, City have been awarded one penalty against United, that was at the Etihad in 2007, which we missed! Someone mentioned they have had 12 since 2007, be interested how many they have had against us in the 31 years of the Premier League if anyone knows? The words “in plain site“ come to mind.
 
Stephen230 said:
A similar thing happened in the first half. A ball came Rashford’s way, clearly in an offside position and he refrained from touching it initially, knowing as soon as he did, the flag would go up. But then he couldn’t resist anymore and kicked it anyway. No doubt if Fernandez was a fraction of a second later on the scene, he would have shot himself.
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taking into account his normal efforts ..........................he would have missed !
 
All that help and they are still shit. It’s almost like they have never been a good footballing team. Getting help like that must drop standards. No wonder the players put in half hearted performances for so many years. Probably well know at the club, send fergie the red nose **** to have a quiet word with the ref. Still harping on about 99. Fuck the lot of them. Their not a proper club, more interest in the stock market and leveraged buyouts these days.
 
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