Is the club going to put in an official complaint about the officiating on Saturday?

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

My ten penneth...

Bluster and crowing gets you nowhere.
We won't put in an official complaint because that's not, quite rightly imho, how our people do things.
However, i strongly suspect that we will be making quiet phonecalls.

 

[waspish]

My ten penneth...

Bluster and crowing gets you nowhere.
We won't put in an official complaint because that's not, quite rightly imho, how our people do things.
However, i strongly suspect that we will be making quiet phonecalls.

We always make Quite phone calls they don’t work you got to call them out after games live

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

'I feel embarrassed and ashamed' - Guardiola apologises to cameraman after confrontation.

Guy makes a beeline for Pep to shove a camera in his face to antagonise him and Pep's saying sorry. You'll be waiting a long time to get the club sticking up for itself.

 

[Gingers Dad]

We saw similar on social media to this thread, after the Liverpool match. And we rightly took the piss

 

[waspish]

'I feel embarrassed and ashamed' - Guardiola apologises to cameraman after confrontation.

Guy makes a beeline for Pep to shove a camera in his face to antagonise him and Pep's saying sorry. You'll be waiting a long time to get the club sticking up for itself.

He is shutting down that incident! Me I’d double down and say thought he was going to break my nose how close he came so I pushed him away and maybe he should watch what he’s doing!

 

[hertsblue]

Regarding the referee's decisions definitely not. However we should challenge the non offside which led to their goal, that's a black or white decision and they fucked up, I want to know why.

And demand audio on it

 

[TonyM]

We weren't good enough to get a result. We weren't robbed by the officials. Even if they made errors or were poor... it wasn't blatant corruption.

Pep needs the squad to work harder to score more and concede less. Obviously. Anything else is a waste of effort and an unnecessary distraction.

 

[Tevez32mcfc]

And demand audio on it

Agree on the audio. Even if the decision was correct I want to know why it took over 3 minutes when we have automated offsides that are supposed to make these decisions quicker. And also why Dias seemed to be hovering in mid air on the VAR camera.

At the end of the day we lost and I can live with that but once again we are talking about our referees and how they struggle to use and implement VAR properly. European refs seem to have these decisions done and dusted within 30 seconds in Champions League.

 

[franksinatra]

I thought we should have at least one pens, but decisions not always go your way.

Complaining when a decision doesn’t go your way to the fa is pretty poor in my opinion. Leave that to Liverpool.

 

[WRicko]

Has anyone got the Dias offside picture with the lines on but not the virtual one. Saw it on here and didn’t event look like the redline met up with Dias ?

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

They should absolutely be doing it IMO - this wouldn't be dipperesque sour grapes (one thing that doesn't go their way in amongst a sea of favourable decisions), city were thoroughly shafted on Saturday and it needs highlighting and forced into the media. It won't change the result, but it might make the cheating twats be not so so brazen in future matches.

It would be very dipper

 

[west didsblue]

Agree on the audio. Even if the decision was correct I want to know why it took over 3 minutes when we have automated offsides that are supposed to make these decisions quicker. And also why Dias seemed to be hovering in mid air on the VAR camera.

At the end of the day we lost and I can live with that but once again we are talking about our referees and how they struggle to use and implement VAR properly. European refs seem to have these decisions done and dusted within 30 seconds in Champions League.

It takes 3 minutes to generate an AI version of Dias jumping up and smiling to play them onside.

 

[waspish]

We weren't good enough to get a result. We weren't robbed by the officials. Even if they made errors or were poor... it wasn't blatant corruption.

Pep needs the squad to work harder to score more and concede less. Obviously. Anything else is a waste of effort and an unnecessary distraction.

Agree in part with this! Only the Foden pen shout was a clanger from the referee! I said before the game I’d settle for a draw just because Newcastle in champs league big games been great! Plus they hard all there best players back and there midfield is one of the best!

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

He is shutting down that incident! Me I’d double down and say thought he was going to break my nose how close he came so I pushed him away and maybe he should watch what he’s doing!

100% mate

Id be saying it shocked me to have something shoved in my face out of nowhere and the cameraman will end up hurting someone one day

 

[ancoats]

We weren't good enough to get a result. We weren't robbed by the officials. Even if they made errors or were poor... it wasn't blatant corruption.

Pep needs the squad to work harder to score more and concede less. Obviously. Anything else is a waste of effort and an unnecessary distraction.

Doku says otherwise ? He got kicked off the park,
3 pens that should have had the referee go and look at and the offside goal was shocking

But we were beaten and can do nothing about it, we had many chances and we should have put then away, so it's easy to blame the officials because it's what fans do for answers

 

[NLW Blue]

With regards to the tackle on Foden. During the Milan derby, Inter were awarded a penalty following a similar incident and VAR review, however the tackle was no where near as bad on the Inter player as the tackle was on Foden.

It just seems that the rules are made up as they go along.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

This has got fuck all to do with Liverpool FC and what they do, it's about us!

If we continue to accept bent officiating we will continue getting shafted. Enough is enough!

Time we called VAR cheating out, simple as that.

It has in terms of coming across as mardy arsed little toe rags, which is exactly how I’d perceive anyone making such a complaint, be it Liverpool, rags or Bournemouth for that matter.

The only way anything like that would make any kind of noise would be if all of the clubs made one joint statement about the various injustices they’ve had as a result of bad officiating or VAR interventions, which all clubs do experience. That isn’t going to happen though.

 

[blueste41]

I think that was a typical performance from the officials that we have seen over the last decade or so. Makes all the trophies we’ve won even more remarkable. I’ve got a feeling that Pep’s parting gift to us will be to finally expose, beyond any argument, the clear anti-City agenda in FA, UEFA, PGMOL and UK media.

Liverpool fans said the same last week, probably United next week and Arsenal the week after. Fans of other teams are convinced beyond doubt that the clubs at the top are protected.
How would Pep expose it? Have they officially told him it's a stitch up?

 

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

We always make Quite phone calls they don’t work you got to call them out after games live

Quite
:)

 

[bluetonium]

I'd just like to know the process and the reason.

We all saw Foden contacted on his ankle, at some force. Why did the referee not think it a penalty and why did var not get involved, as it seemed a clear and obvious error?

Why did the offside graphic take so long to be shown, especially if it's now semi automatic, and why did it then show a measurement from Dias' armpit, and a CGI image that quite obviously didn't match the actual still?

That's all, no need for dipper sour grapes or days of shouting we've been victimised. I, as a fan, and the players and coaching staff as interested parties, would just like to be educated on what the rules of the game are now. Clearly we have different ideas between fans, players and officials.

Because the alternative is we tell Foden or Doku or whoever to stay down, writhe around on agony, force the decision, and who wants to see that?

The standard of officiating itself throughout the game though, was shocking. The yellow card threshold seemed variable depending on the match time and player, but that's not unique to that game. Eight seconds for goalies but up to a minute for drying the ball discreetly via a sub's bib and taking a throw in? But after a contentious defeat is not the time to bring attention to the wider issues of the game, unfortunately.