The thing is with the shit handball/red card decision, every team gets shit decisions against them. Palace had a pretty naff decision go against them for our penalty imo - Bernardo start going down before Mitchell's tackle came in, we just didn't make it count so it's not a talking point. If Marmoush buries the penalty and Palace collapse then it would be all about "Cheating oil City buying the refs again".
Point is, we've had tonnes of shit decisions against us under Pep, we've just usually been so good that they didn't matter. We had another hour to score a goal and didn't - that's on us. If Palace had gone down to 10 men they'd have just sat in deeper anyway and we'd have watched as more and more chances went begging.
I mean, who remembers Gabriel Jesus getting hacked down in the West Ham game in 2022 but not getting anything for it? Basically nobody because we drew that game and beat Villa the week after to win the title. If we'd lost against West Ham or Villa during that week we'd have been coming back to the Jesus non-penalty for years and Liverpool fans would barely mention the Rodri handball against Everton.
The biggest let-off we've had down the years imo was Grealish's handball against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final. He had ages to get out of the way and he stopped a shot that was on target - nothing given. If we'd won the final against United we'd be seeing screengrabs of it for years, but because we lost to United it gets forgotten about and instead we focus on the offside given against Coventry in United's game.
It's happened this week for Stockport County. Everyone will focus on the shit offside decision Leyton Orient got in the first game because County lost, but County had two massive chances to win it in the 91st and 120th minutes of the second game and they fluffed their lines. Just the way it goes - you've got to accept that shit decisions are always likely and make it count elsewhere.
Point is, we've had tonnes of shit decisions against us under Pep, we've just usually been so good that they didn't matter. We had another hour to score a goal and didn't - that's on us. If Palace had gone down to 10 men they'd have just sat in deeper anyway and we'd have watched as more and more chances went begging.
I mean, who remembers Gabriel Jesus getting hacked down in the West Ham game in 2022 but not getting anything for it? Basically nobody because we drew that game and beat Villa the week after to win the title. If we'd lost against West Ham or Villa during that week we'd have been coming back to the Jesus non-penalty for years and Liverpool fans would barely mention the Rodri handball against Everton.
The biggest let-off we've had down the years imo was Grealish's handball against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final. He had ages to get out of the way and he stopped a shot that was on target - nothing given. If we'd won the final against United we'd be seeing screengrabs of it for years, but because we lost to United it gets forgotten about and instead we focus on the offside given against Coventry in United's game.
It's happened this week for Stockport County. Everyone will focus on the shit offside decision Leyton Orient got in the first game because County lost, but County had two massive chances to win it in the 91st and 120th minutes of the second game and they fluffed their lines. Just the way it goes - you've got to accept that shit decisions are always likely and make it count elsewhere.