Corruption in English football?

60/40 per cent would have been expected, everyone thinks it`s bent wow.
We question how the rags have got 9 points at home from offside goals at home where VAR seems to have gone walkabout.

its not the premier league that an incident occured. Mike Dean was suspended for a week after his VAR shitshow in the FA Cup tie between Liverpool and Wolves.
 
Straight red card all day in my opinion. Malicious, premeditated and if dished out by one of our players would have been played on a loop by Sly. Take your blinkers off.

I’m not sure who’s blinkered up mate. Your opinion is fine. But it seems those in agreement with you are half a dozen posters on Bluemoon. And those against are everybody else, everywhere who has commented on the match.
 
Penalty awarded for grappling in the area on a corner , time added on in time added on for 'over' celebrating , awarded a penalty after the half time whistle , thicker.lines to be used by var on offside calls , not interfering with play offsides , all benefiting the rags and most going against us , rules you are unlikely to ever see used again ,
 
Penalty awarded for grappling in the area on a corner , time added on in time added on for 'over' celebrating , awarded a penalty after the half time whistle , thicker.lines to be used by var on offside calls , not interfering with play offsides , all benefiting the rags and most going against us , rules you are unlikely to ever see used again ,
Agree yet this shoulder to head was called clearest red of season and led to a long banhttps://twitter.com/btsportrugby/status/1606381902675513361?t=XZXwd_w28Nxto7Nfavi3WA&s=19
 
That's quite telling.

I'm squarely in the yes camp. If you look as some of the decisions, and patterns of play in certain games it's difficult to conclude there is anything other than manipulation in order to try and influence outcomes.

Even something simple, such as the referee being told to try and keep the game competitive for as long as possible (for example not sending the Wolves player off for the challenge on Gundogan last week which ticked every box as a Red card offence). I'm doubtful the referee would have hesitated to send the player off had roles been reversed.

Of course

Games can also be influenced without obvious drama. The referee can just keep stopping the flow of the game, which usually benefits one team and frustrates one team

You see it in boxing all the time. Reminds me of that Joshua v Parker fight a while ago, that ref was clearly instructed to not let Parker hear Joshua, he would interfere and break up the action as soon as Parker got close and could work on the inside. They knew at range AJ had the reach advantage, so the referee made sure the fight was at range. It was blatant.

I believe similar happens in football all the time. Referees can dictate the tempo and flow of the game, they can frustrate one team etc, there’s no guarantee it’s going to always effect the final score but they can certainly give the game a nudge in a certain direction.
 
Every game 50/50 goes to the opposing team players can continuously make fouls on one player all game and not get carded
 
Of course

Games can also be influenced without obvious drama. The referee can just keep stopping the flow of the game, which usually benefits one team and frustrates one team

You see it in boxing all the time. Reminds me of that Joshua v Parker fight a while ago, that ref was clearly instructed to not let Parker hear Joshua, he would interfere and break up the action as soon as Parker got close and could work on the inside. They knew at range AJ had the reach advantage, so the referee made sure the fight was at range. It was blatant.

I believe similar happens in football all the time. Referees can dictate the tempo and flow of the game, they can frustrate one team etc, there’s no guarantee it’s going to always effect the final score but they can certainly give the game a nudge in a certain direction.
It absolutely happened to us in the CL final. The referee appointment both influenced our selection (Ferni would have walked) and the game was stop start in the second half. Pep was fuming and knew what had been done to us.
 
Of course

Games can also be influenced without obvious drama. The referee can just keep stopping the flow of the game, which usually benefits one team and frustrates one team

You see it in boxing all the time. Reminds me of that Joshua v Parker fight a while ago, that ref was clearly instructed to not let Parker hear Joshua, he would interfere and break up the action as soon as Parker got close and could work on the inside. They knew at range AJ had the reach advantage, so the referee made sure the fight was at range. It was blatant.

I believe similar happens in football all the time. Referees can dictate the tempo and flow of the game, they can frustrate one team etc, there’s no guarantee it’s going to always effect the final score but they can certainly give the game a nudge in a certain direction.
Agree with this perspective. A season or two ago certain refs always seemed to get in the way of the passing channels on the left of our build up play. A few seconds delay is all the opposition need to regain their shape. These days it seems the ref moves faster than our forward play!
 
While the officiating is top notch, just listen to the commentary n’all… you don’t ever hear our commentators, co-commentators and pundits talking about the sides of the game that need eradicating from football. They just talk bollocks in barely comprehensible English.
 

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