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Karma knows what it's doing though. Otherwise, all those people would have missed a good laugh.

It was similar with infringment also. I think at the beginning when the rule was introduced a few years ago Raheem Sterling gave away a penalty for a slight tug on an opposition player. Then that rule was forgotten about too, there have been several incidents where a United player has grappled...

I think a Villa player was booked for simulation against United, last season or the season before? Villa were looking like getting back in to the game and rather than give a penalty the referee suddenly remembered there was a rule about simulation and booked the Villa player instead. A goal for...

It goes all the way back to John Henry Davies and James W Gibson at United. These clubs bang on about " history " but it's only the carefully edited version they want to talk about.

All this talk of " Earned not Bought " is a nonsense too. Clubs usually had investment in order to compete, going back decades. Some clubs prefer though to ignore this part of their " history " and get together to change or make up rules to stop others from having similar opportunities...

Still people wonder why the opposition turn up for City and not for the favoured teams. They know full well they won't be allowed to compete which was shown again last weekend.

I think there is definitely something to it. I remember Rafa Benitez and his famous " fact" rant about what was going on. That was probably more than ten years ago. As one red side fell away from contention another took It's place. I think as City have got stronger and stronger the tactics for...

We heard all about the " rules" regarding FFP and City yet rules regarding diving are consistently ignored.

That's a good point. There are supposed to be rules regarding " simulation " yet certain teams are consistently rewarded with penalties rather than punished with bookings.

Like you say, it's been going on for decades. If it was incompetence, wouldn't they have put it right a long time ago? If you look back at the " history " of certain teams there would be a succession of dodgy decisions. Just this past few weeks a Liverpool player should have been off in the...

Three or four , some games.

I agree but the one good thing about VAR is that there can be no more excuses of " human error " or the game "moving so quickly" . With VAR they could make the correct decisions and remove any bias IF they wanted to. VAR has highlighted what has been going on for decades, favouritism towards...

I am sure a couple of seasons ago Southampton started wasting time from the beginning. The goalkeeper would get the ball , kick the post over and over and the referee did nothing until near the end. Then he walked over to the goalkeeper had a word and helped waste another couple of minutes.

I remember that game. The spurs player was in line with the linesman when he received the ball, yards offside.

Absolutely. " Lies, damnned lies and statistics " Disraeli. It's all part of the " swings and roundabouts " " things even themselves out over a season " " the table doesn't lie" myth that has been shown to be nonsense time and again. Last weekend was a classic example. Those three points they...

I agree, even Pep Guardiola said something in a previous game along the lines of City don't get given anything. Fair decisions would be nice, that is all. It just seemed that the only reason for the delay caused by VAR was to disrupt City's game. The handball they were supposed to be looking...

I wonder what "Stevie G" made of his side suffering from dubious decisions managing Villa, rather than benefitting playing for LiVARpool?

I have seen a photo of the foul on KDB and it certainly looked inside and apparently the commentators in America said it was a penalty? I haven't seen a photo of the handball that could have led to a penalty. It seems like the only reason VAR intervened was because City were piling on the...

There was someone arguing on twitter the other day that LiVARpool are suffering more than others from VAR overuled decisions. He even had a graph to back up the " evidence ". VAR didn't intervene when they played Villa to overule the penalty for a dive and give a yellow card for " simulation...

That decision just happened to benefit a certain team in red as it took points off Sheffield United, they were competing for a top four place at the time. Much like the decisions against City and in favour of another team in red over the weekend.