Corruption in English football?

[bobbyowenquiff]

There is little doubt ( in my mind ) that the clubs who have derived the most benefit from the dubious decisions are the rags and dippers. The media do not want to rock the boat and risk losing the money which accompanies their support of the two clubs.

Not even subtle with the decisions , and the two clubs with the largest followings have undoubtedly benefitted from the introduction of VAR .

Numbers of " dubious " penalties awarded to the rags is over the last two seasons to ensure a top 4 place and thus EC qualification which was unlikely without them.

Dippers have had so many doubious calls to assist Mane and Salah too.

The way these two have benefitted has imo contributed to the number of players in general who dive in order to gain fouls/ penalties , and VAR and PiGMOL have obliged .

Why have referees stopped booking players for diving?

 

[Bill]

Sorry its bs its in our own hands nothing less.

not true.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Why have referees stopped booking players for diving?

perhaps Adam Carter could answer that ?

 

[Mid Wales blue]

Where’s this from?

The Sun

 

[Protein Junkie]

perhaps Adam Carter could answer that ?

Adam Carter was a fictional character in the BBC drama “Spooks” MI5 , bugging device’s, shady characters etc hmmm

 

[aguero93:20]

Why have referees stopped booking players for diving?

It's hard to book them and give them a penalty at the same time.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Sorry its bs its in our own hands nothing less.

It's not.

There are games where we've had to play out of our skin to get a result. There are games where the referee has been constantly looking to screw us... right up to the point we go 3-0 up with 15 minutes to go and they clearly and obviously stop trying.

Look at the Fulham game the other night. It appeared the referee was willing to let the game 'flow', and for the first 5 or 6 niggly Fulham challenges that's what he did. City put their FIRST 50-50 challenge in and the tw@t blew his whistle. The rest of the game played out pretty much in same vane until he had to give an undisputable penalty for the foul on Torres and we went three up after Aguero tucked the penalty away.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Should be banging on Riley’s door this shouldn’t be swept under the carpet it’s an utter disgrace! Why is Madley even listening to this none referee when he told him it not a penalty?’

Because Carter probably said "Mike Riley says no penalty. No penalty. Got it?"

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

There are far too many instances of apparent collusion for it to be coincidental.

As we have seen in the past with fouls that were missed by match officials (prior to VAR) being shown on a loop on SSN, BBC, BT and headlines on the various football websites, the media have the power to influence the PL/FA (Aguero on Winston Reid).

The media also chose to ignore fouls when it suits them (Various Maguire foul, and many other Rad/Dipper fouls).

Spot on about the collusion. Said this at the time, that it seemed the broadcasters knew what was happening.

I'll tell you what happened with Aguero & Reid as well. Marriner reported that he'd seen the incident and therefore dealt with it. He was told to change his report but initially refused. Then he was offered the League Cup final if he changed his report to say he hadn't seen it. So he did.

I told Bill this story well before the final and the appointment of Marriner, so I had a witness.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

It's hard to book them and give them a penalty at the same time.

Even with all the absurd penalties the level of diving in English football is off the scale. Players have realised they can con the VAR team because slow motion replays are distorting reality. Certain players just go down all the time. Cheating has been endorsed by VAR. Why the PL is allowing its product to be destroyed like this I don't understand.