Corruption in English football?

[lefty goldblatt]

Alive and well since 1888

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

Agreed. The Adebayor match has always bothered me not least because no one in the media at the time reported the racial dimension. The Arsenal fans relentlessly barracked him with the "washing elephants" song throughout the match and their players also niggled him. It was brushed under the carpet by the press at the time and it was only recently confirmed by Adebayor himself. I know it's true as does everyone in the East Stand near the away fans' section. It was the worst racial abuse I have seen at a home match by opposition fans ever. I loved his response to the goal.

I was in the family stand at the other end of the ground and could clearly hear the racist chanting. Adebayor's goal celebration that day is probably my favourite ever (excluding trophy winning goals and goals against the scum).

 

[birch villa]

I was in the family stand at the other end of the ground and could clearly hear the racist chanting. Adebayor's goal celebration that day is probably my favourite ever (excluding trophy winning goals and goals against the scum).

Cue the arsenal crowd gif anyone ?

 

[Maly]

I was in the family stand at the other end of the ground and could clearly hear the racist chanting. Adebayor's goal celebration that day is probably my favourite ever (excluding trophy winning goals and goals against the scum).

I was in a box next to his family & friends....they went ballistic when he scored

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

last line isn't true, i genuinely would like to see actual proof of corruption, i would love to be proved wrong.

That Klopp quote isn't proof.

I want to see actual proof of who specifically is involved at the FA/Officials and what must be a huge amount of people involved in determining that they give Man U dodgy decisions in order to let them win trophys (there doing a bad job of it by the way)

I see ridiculous decisions for and against every team to be honest. I think some are to blind sided with there hatred for United + Liverpool and see 'corruption' in every decision.

Your minds are made up so there's little point debating, but i am very much open to seeing actual concrete proof of corruption - klopp quote and a few soft pens in United's favour isn't enough,

Not sure of the exact figures but they have had approximately as many penalties over the last couple of seasons as City and Liverpool combined. The dominant two teams in the league with the best players who spend the most time in the opponents penalty area. Versus a team who can barely string 2 passes together half the time and rarely outplay anyone. They have had an unprecedented number of penalties in that time - off the scale.

But even that would be fine if they were all nailed on penalties but there are loads (not a few) that are soft, very soft or absolutely ludicrous decisions (the Leipzig one this season being the stand-out). They are given penalties that other teams are not given - VAR doesn't overturn the on-field decision that often so they are keeping their penalties while other teams are not getting theirs given (for similar incidents).

Whether you believe in an agenda/corruption or you don't, the number of penalties that they are getting is a statistical anomaly that defies belief.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Nope, just pointing out how brilliantly the corruption has worked to engineer a United title win. Ten years of bent refs, untold decisions in United’s favour, and, er, not a solitary top spot. Don’t think Mossad will be ringing for advice any time soon.

"A STRONG MANCHESTER UNITED" doesn't mean they have to win it, it means that they have to be "viewed" to be good enough by those with overseas armchairs and ryan giggs duvets. If they're happy then the money keeps rolling in.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

"A STRONG MANCHESTER UNITED" doesn't mean they have to win it, it means that they have to be "viewed" to be good enough by those with overseas armchairs and ryan giggs duvets. If they're happy then the money keeps rolling in.

As David Gill stated, they just have to compete.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

But just to tie this up before I go out to an appointment - if you can't see the ridiculous decisions that United get, the comparatively shorter times decisions in their favour are checked etc, the way they generally get the benefit of the doubt on 50 50s, the way they go to ground so easily, then I don't know what to tell you.

Not only now, but it's been going on since Ferguson. I've been watching English football since the late 80s or early 90s and in all that time United have been the most favoured team by officials in the PL by a long way. A lot of it is to do with that classless **** of a bully Ferguson. Liverpool will be second to that but unlike a lot of City fans on here I don't think they're anywhere near as favoured as United.

I do,just tell him to fuck off.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Look in the Clattenburg thread all you non-believers

 

[mat]

Look in the Clattenburg thread all you non-believers

No chance of that happening. They believe we live in the land of fair play and sporting integrity.