I certainly do not think City fans are simpletons and as always a poster like Exeter Blue makes some excellent points and raises examples which are worthy of discussion. Hence I researched the Zabba incident.
The only point where I have been riled is when someone decides to state I was another poster previously. I just cannot fathom that.
You are quite correct maybe staying out of the thread would have been a good idea but sometimes you are damned if you do and damned if you dont. But its a poor show if an alternative view cannot be stated within a thread.
As I have stated earlier personally I think football is too fast, too much simulation and too many camera angles to paint refs in a good light. Its an impossible task.
I have never been an advocate of video refereeing but the faith in the integrity of refereees is at an all time low, so if it could be implemented and cause minimal disruption to the game it could only be a good thing.
Of course the forum is for alternative views and I would suggest that you put yours across in a well considered and polite manner – would be good if we could all do the same.
What I would respectfully suggest though is that you do go a bit OTT / get too repetitious in stating your opinion. It becomes it seems a campaign rather than expression of opinion – and through your repetition you can effectively deny others the right to express their opinions.
Yes you are absolutely allowed your view and yes you often acknowledge that we who are convinced that there has been clearly significant bias against CITY also have a right to our views (actually for me it is a case of bias in favour of the scum and to a lesser degree the redscouse – so against CITY when it favours them) – but you don’t half bang on and on. We get it – I doubt that there is a member of this forum that is unaware of your opinion.
In the bias thread you turned it into campaign and actually IMO distracted/spoilt the thread enormously. Whilst you might state we are allowed our view it is almost as if you feel that we have to ‘persuade’ you.
That is simply not the case – we can have out views without needing to validate then though you. For instance no matter your view - I
SAW the glee in Dowd’s face when he had the chance to give that penalty against Micah – I have my own opinion about the Clattenburg penalty decisions against Chelsea – and against the scum (much is made of the fact he reffed the 1 -6 game but he gave us fuck all in that game) and so on....
FWIW I firmly believe that the referee bias is changing since the Govan piss can fucked off, but that was not so long ago and many of us have our clear recollections of the shocking bias that used to happen. I watched in disbelief at the 2 ridiculously soft penalties Jones award against Stoke in his ‘comeback game’ – having not been allowed to ref a scum game for months after having the temerity to award a penalty against them – fuck there were so many instances.
It is a disgrace, but IMO a fact, that the FA and PGMOL allowed that twat to have a position where referees felt that they would not be allowed to referee scum matches if he was not happy with them – and to progress your career as a referee you needed to referee top games in your home league – in past years that meant games involving the scum. Webb is a good example of how far you can go if the GPC liked you.
So you might think that most CITY fans have a gripe against most Referees – well the piss can only fucked a relatively short time ago so there will be for almost every referee relatively fresh bias
