And a wanker who has the whistle.
Today's City article in the DT includes a headline about the police launching an appeal. It ought to be an appeal that Mike Dean retires. Why do we always get these refs when they are in full pedant mode. Is Pogba, Lukaku, Fellaini, Rashford, Kane, anyone else in the entire panoply of PL scorers going to meet a pedant ref on match day?
I will need some convincing that two sendings off within a week for two players who have collectively over 300 PL appearances under their belts and ne'er walked for an early bath is just one of football's coincidences. If these refs are lily-white and only walk away from the ground with their fee they certainly adopt a completely different approach when they have MCFC as one of the contenders. There is a tight-jawed, allow nothing, and punish everything approach from them when we put a foot in a tackle, there is clear 'guesswork' as to what a particular incident could have contained (Sterling's hand sticking out of his back, and Walker's selection of fictitious elbows), and the minute any mild mannered pro we have on our books says boo to the goose with the whistle he is reported and yellow-carded for dissent. Rooney had to go back to EFC before he was done for dissent! I am not going to espouse 'conspiracy' or 'agenda' on this occasion but can somebody just simply explain why we have clear variation in the application of the Laws of the Game that clearly disadvantages us!