Is the league, for want of a better word, ‘bent’?

The officiating in England is a joke. It might be bent too but I'm 100% sure it is at least biased towards a flowery image of Englishness.

But in defense of them all referees at every level are incompetent according to the majority on the sidelines.

Ah ref. Ball was out ref. Ball was still in ref. Offside ref. Ah ref that was onside ref. Foul. Ah ref that's harsh. Yellow! Send him off ref! Your a wanker. Etc etc. I see it every single game. How they do it is beyond me.

At least the guys in the PL arent rickety old fat men with incredibly thick skins.

That said I had little problem with the ref yesterday. He got some wrong but a lot more right.

We should concentrate on being a better football team because we are pretty poor for the squad we have.
 
Father Paul said:
Rodri was bloody lucky to stay on the pitch he should have had his second red in two weeks. This was most certainly a decision that went in our favour ignored conveniently by those venting on this thread.
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On our first goal Haaland is pulled back and the spurs player booked, wasn’t he the same player who took Rodri out with a late challenge therefore escaping a red?
 
The players should have came out years ago when they had the opportunity to call it as it is regarding the officiating in our games, we should have done all this whilst we were successfully winning trophies...even with all we won over the last 10 years under Pep we've been shafted time and time again, thankfully we were so good that even the refs couldn't stop us from winning.

Now we are playing really poor and realistically aren't going to win the league on current form, the players are coming out in the last few weeks giving out about officiating more than they've done in the last 10 years and it's making us look like sore losers.

The majority on here have said this for years about officials, this should have been dealt with years ago whilst we were winning, not only the managers and players hace accepted it but the club has also let the FA get away with this shit.
 
This or a very similar thread could appear on a forum of every club in the PL. Every team gets horrible decisions - make it about the standard of referees and VARs but not about an imagined agenda because every fanbase has one of those.
 
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You could put it down to incompetence, there certainly is that, as pigmol can't get any consistency to their own rules (Rods should have been sent off at the end).

Fabinio's challenge on Kev was the same, but with a different outcome, of course.
There are a lot of pictures of the twat in black laughing during the game yesterday and maybe they want to get back at Pep for drawing attention to it in previous weeks.

I think they like the controversy. I think, they think it sells the product and news organisations (lol) love it for the clicks.
Sadly, I don't know what we can do about it apart from getting 4 up before shit happens.
 
TonyM said:
The officiating in England is a joke. It might be bent too but I'm 100% sure it is at least biased towards a flowery image of Englishness.

But in defense of them all referees at every level are incompetent according to the majority on the sidelines.

Ah ref. Ball was out ref. Ball was still in ref. Offside ref. Ah ref that was onside ref. Foul. Ah ref that's harsh. Yellow! Send him off ref! Your a wanker. Etc etc. I see it every single game. How they do it is beyond me.

At least the guys in the PL arent rickety old fat men with incredibly thick skins.

That said I had little problem with the ref yesterday. He got some wrong but a lot more right.

We should concentrate on being a better football team because we are pretty poor for the squad we have.
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I have some (very little) sympathy for referees - it's their inconsistency that annoys me.

It's when it goes to VAR that we appear to get stitched up.
 
VAR was not brought in to make the game fairer.

It was brought in to assist teams at the top and rubber stamp dodgy decisions under the guise of 'officiating'. Look at the number of controversies where VAR has gotten it wrong, teams won off the back of said decisions and the officials 'apologised' after the fact, as if that changes the result or takes away the advantage given.

Nobody can change my mind on this, you just have to look at the standard of VAR officiating in a Red Cartel game compared to one between two teams struggling above the relegation zone.
 
How many PGMoL and Premier League statements of explanation have followed our games this season? And isn't it odd how all of them have been needed to explain decisions AGAINST us?

Have we had a single one that has been needed to explain why we got a decision in our favour?

The last time I remember one of those, they then changed the written laws within the space of a week, several seasons ago.

Compare and contrast that to the reasonings given out for incidents in Liverpool, the rags and Arsenal matches this season.


Yeah, it's all in our head, we're all paranoid, every team has decisions going for and against them, etc...etc...etc...
There is no bias and it's all above board.
 
Father Paul said:
Rodri was bloody lucky to stay on the pitch he should have had his second red in two weeks. This was most certainly a decision that went in our favour ignored conveniently by those venting on this thread.
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Spurs were rotating their fouls on him, he was lucky he was still on the pitch to get the first yellow, so fuck 'em.
 
Look at how the rags were reffed yesterday with var giving a free kick outside the box after a penalty decision dismissed. That is a corner/goal kick for most teams. The offside microscope deemed offside for Fulham, we didn’t see any lines yesterday.
I get we are not playing well but decisions affect games. Foul given yesterday on Guehi and the game pans out differently imo.
 
Metal Biker said:
VAR was not brought in to make the game fairer.

It was brought in to assist teams at the top and rubber stamp dodgy decisions under the guise of 'officiating'. Look at the number of controversies where VAR has gotten it wrong, teams won off the back of said decisions and the officials 'apologised' after the fact, as if that changes the result or takes away the advantage given.

Nobody can change my mind on this, you just have to look at the standard of VAR officiating in a Red Cartel game compared to one between two teams struggling above the relegation zone.
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We don't get apologies, we get reasons why the decision was correct. Seriously, when did we ever get an apology?

At best we get sections of the media telling us it might've been wrong with at least equal proportions explaining why it was correct.
 
I don’t know why we are complaining about Solanki’s earwig kick goal. It was onside because VAR said it was. The images would obviously confirm that so there’s no need to show them is there. Move on - nothing to see here.

A graphic has been released showing the experts telling us that all the contentious decisions were correct for the good of the game.

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We should also be grateful that Rodri wasn’t sent off twice yesterday. What about the only potential yellow cards missed by the first class official in the game and we all know he should have been given a retrospective red for the blatant and infamous hand ball against Everton.

All in all we’re pretty fortunate…..
 
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