Man City – They didn’t win the league with ref assiatance

[Bluemoonbaldboy]

Find it amazing what was mentioned about Lee Mason

On the positive side we welcome Lee Mason who had a negative un-weighted bias. So he has given them a few big decisions it seems.

For me he is one of the worst refs in the league!

 

[stony]

I am one of the first on here to say that there is no Agenda against us.

I would like to know though who the reporter is referring to when he said certain City players should have walked and didn't.

Mario against Spurs when he stamped on Brave Scotty Parker and then had the audacity to score the winning penalty.

 

[Joga Bonito]

Statistics can be manipulated anyway you want. With my blue-tinted specs on I would say we were victims of one too many questionable decisions last season but the fact that we overcame them and were crowned champions makes the victory even sweeter.

There's an advert at the bottom supporting the Indian Olympic team. Is the author based in India?

Haha I noticed that too!

 

[sincity]

There's an advert at the bottom supporting the Indian Olympic team. Is the author based in India? Their interpretation of the rules, fairness, reaction to decisions etc is completely different to what would be interpreted in England. (example: We have a more 'school of hard knocks' approach and trying to deceive the referee is taboo, they would more likely consider a strong fair challenge to be an immediate sending off).

The website is definitely Indian, but the author is a Tony Attwood who "currently lives in Northamptonshire"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Attwood_(writer)
Nowadays you don't need to be based in a particular region to write an article, and his interpretation is definitely English, though with an Arsenal tint (hence probably the confusion)

 

[Bill]

i am 100% convinced there was an agenda to stop us. hard fucking luck you fucking cheats.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The ref with the most negative bias was Peter Walton

Quelle surprise.

As secretary of the MCFC Agenda Conspiracy Paranoia Supporters' Club I had this guy down a few seasons back. EFC's resident referee - HMP Walton. Thank the Lord he's off buggerin' up North American Soccer!

That just leaves, Howie Redshirt, FatPhil, Crappenberg, Oliver Oil, et al.

Roberto should take a leaf out of Baconface's management manual and insist we have The Right Honourable Michael Dean for all matches, home and away! Oh, and is His Holiness Sir Michael on the FIFA list? We could do with him to sort out some of these playactors from the continent.

 

[fatbloke]

Throughout the season there were just too many incidences of ridiculous decisions against us and ones benefiting United for there not to be something suspicious going on in my mind. Yeah we had the occasional beneficial decision which the none agenda people love to point out as "absolute proof" there wasn't anything or the one penalty Newcastle got at Old Trafford but overall it boardered on the cringeworthy. Even United fans were laughing more out of embarrassment than anything else at the Young dives and the none penalty against Fulham in three consecutive home games if I remember correctly.

The worst decision I've ever witnessed at any game in 25 years as a season ticket holder was away at Wigan, with Figuero's handball. Yes we won the game but it was the most blatant handball since Maradona and how that wasn't preventing a goal scoring opportunity I'll never understand, people can say it was on the halfway line or whatever they want but that could have easily cost us two points and the title. Then United's away game against Wigan - Wigan get a goal disallowed for something, I still don't think anyone knows why, which could have given the Scum a 3 point advantage. Luckily it didn't but that's what we were up against seemingly week in, week out.

 

[bluethai]

This chart is pretty accurate imo, especially spot on about Walton and Mason as well.

 

[mancunial]

i am 100% convinced there was an agenda to stop us. hard fucking luck you fucking cheats.

as they say in thailand same same but different?

 

[gfunkstylee]

And our un-weighted numbers have shown that when you play away from home in the PL you will have to overcome a negative away bias of -1.826 points. After covering 15 away games from Manchester United we have found that they didn’t have to face a negative away bias but in general had a positive bias in their favour of 1.000 bias points.

What goes up, must come down of course and when you play at home you can expect a positive home bias in your favour of +1.826 bias points. In the 17 home games we did from Manchester United we found a positive bias score of +5.647 bias points. That is almost 3 times the normal positive home bias that any other team can expect.

The final result leaves us with a positive bias swing of +3.469 bias points in favour of Manchester United.

FINAL CONCLUSION

There is no denying the fact that Manchester United had a clearly positive bias from the refs in general. If you want to deny it be my guest and go through all the 32 games and point at where we are wrong in our numbers. It is in the open and you can check each decision.

In fact those few games when the ref made mistakes that went against United they dropped points. And maybe that is the best indication of them all that shows how important the refs can be.

Manchester United dropped points because of bad referee decisions going against them. But it won far more points when the referee decisions went in their favour.