Chelsea getting away with murder...

[MadchesterCity]

Assley Cole must die!!!!!!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I thought the ref got that one right for a change. He had one foot up which I thought was a yellow. Straight red for both feet. Not sure how Cole escaped not getting anything though.

Not rescinding the Milijas red was a complete joke, in order to protect a completely incompetent and discredited official.

 

[Castiel]

Not to mention the game against the rags. 2 offside goals.

Exactly.

Arguably Ashley Cole handballed it before crossing to Sturridge to go equalize against us at the lane. It all happened very quickly though and I think we got away with something or other in that game, it was just a bit annoying as we were on top and that really took it out of the players and I'm still ever so slightly bitter about the refereeing from last year at the Bridge (no hard feelings Castiel...)

I thought it was the right decision as VDV's strange attempt at interception diverted it into Cole's arm. He didn't have any control over how it fell and was moving too fast to make the initial pass but VDV deflected it just enough for everything to come together. Cole certainly didn't try to control it with his arm. It just hit him and happened to fall favourably. Had VDV left it, it would have gone out, which is the irony. Also the initial foul leading to the free kick was questionable.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Have we mentioned Luiz not getting sent off (somehow) away at Newcastle last month?

Chelsea get fucking everything.

Compare that to us, trying not to sound like a paranoid twat, but we get fuck all when it comes to big decisions (Sunderland, Chelsea, Liverpool, West Brom games all come to mind where huge decisions have controversially went against us). And by huge I mean had an impact on the result.

 

[spurspinter1]

Not to mention the game against the rags. 2 offside goals.

Exactly.

Arguably Ashley Cole handballed it before crossing to Sturridge to go equalize against us at the lane. It all happened very quickly though and I think we got away with something or other in that game, it was just a bit annoying as we were on top and that really took it out of the players and I'm still ever so slightly bitter about the refereeing from last year at the Bridge (no hard feelings Castiel...)

I thought it was the right decision as VDV's strange attempt at interception diverted it into Cole's arm. He didn't have any control over how it fell and was moving too fast to make the initial pass but VDV deflected it just enough for everything to come together. Cole certainly didn't try to control it with his arm. It just hit him and happened to fall favourably. Had VDV left it, it would have gone out, which is the irony. Also the initial foul leading to the free kick was questionable.

VDV probably should have left it, but I think if it were not for use of Cole's hand he would not have controlled the ball, whether intentional or not in my opinion (not just in this example) that is a handball, I may be wrong according to the law, but that is my opinion...Yeah I thought Modric got the ball in that tackle and IIRC before that incident there was a Chelsea player making a tackle which I believed to be a foul but it wasn't called it but I'm not too sure...As I said, no major controversey there to be disappointed with there though...Lets hope we can say the same about the return fixture, too many important games are being severly influenced by refs recently it seems.

 

[samharris]

I say it every year.. the title is won and lost by poor refereeing decisions..
if we lose the title by 1 point it will be the point we were robbed of last sunday with the offside goal...

A billion pound industry is decided by mistakes..

food for thought.

 

[hertsblue]

I say it every year.. the title is won and lost by poor refereeing decisions..
if we lose the title by 1 point it will be the point we were robbed of last sunday with the offside goal...

A billion pound industry is decided by mistakes..

food for thought.

They say it evens itself out but in the last month alone:

Munich- Lescott goal ruled out ay 0-0 due to overprotection for the keeper. Nothing wrong with the goal. Luckily didnt cost us.
Liverpool Keeper- blatent handball outside the box, if officials see it its a red. WBA - Balo goal wrongly ruled out for offside.
Sunderland - Offisde goal wrongly allowed.
Chelsea- Blatant penalty not given when already 1 up

All the above had bearings on the results.

And why do we seem to constnatly pick up soft bookings. I mean De Jong yesterday, 7 mins and a yellow for the 1st foul when other teams can kick lumps out of us and get a word from the ref till the 4th/5th foul when action is finally taken. For a team who has in alot of games upto 70% of the ball with the opposition trying to get it from us, its hard to believe we give away more free kicks then the opposition

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

I say it every year.. the title is won and lost by poor refereeing decisions..
if we lose the title by 1 point it will be the point we were robbed of last sunday with the offside goal...

A billion pound industry is decided by mistakes..

food for thought.

They say it evens itself out but in the last month alone:

Munich- Lescott goal ruled out ay 0-0 due to overprotection for the keeper. Nothing wrong with the goal. Luckily didnt cost us.
Liverpool Keeper- blatent handball outside the box, if officials see it its a red. WBA - Balo goal wrongly ruled out for offside.
Sunderland - Offisde goal wrongly allowed.
Chelsea- Blatant penalty not given when already 1 up

All the above had bearings on the results.

And why do we seem to constnatly pick up soft bookings. I mean De Jong yesterday, 7 mins and a yellow for the 1st foul when other teams can kick lumps out of us and get a word from the ref till the 4th/5th foul when action is finally taken. For a team who has in alot of games upto 70% of the ball with the opposition trying to get it from us, its hard to believe we give away more free kicks then the opposition

I think you will find Aguero was offside and touched the ball which is offside in anyones book regardless of the fact Balo was onside

 

[deano ou812]

I say it every year.. the title is won and lost by poor refereeing decisions..
if we lose the title by 1 point it will be the point we were robbed of last sunday with the offside goal...

A billion pound industry is decided by mistakes..

food for thought.

They say it evens itself out but in the last month alone:

Munich- Lescott goal ruled out ay 0-0 due to overprotection for the keeper. Nothing wrong with the goal. Luckily didnt cost us.
Liverpool Keeper- blatent handball outside the box, if officials see it its a red. WBA - Balo goal wrongly ruled out for offside.
Sunderland - Offisde goal wrongly allowed.
Chelsea- Blatant penalty not given when already 1 up

All the above had bearings on the results.

And why do we seem to constnatly pick up soft bookings. I mean De Jong yesterday, 7 mins and a yellow for the 1st foul when other teams can kick lumps out of us and get a word from the ref till the 4th/5th foul when action is finally taken. For a team who has in alot of games upto 70% of the ball with the opposition trying to get it from us, its hard to believe we give away more free kicks then the opposition

at the moment the decisions are not going our way,but there seems to be to many at the moment to be just bad luck,what odds on a dodgy decision at tonights game against us....

 

[Manc in London]

We are not victims. We have had stuff go our way too. Things are not going with us at the moment - congested fixture schedule, playimng on form teams, decisions not going our way etc.. However, this won't last. This kind of thing happens to all teams. We just need to ride it out and stay strong.

Leave the victim mentality to the scousers.