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Media bias against City
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MillionMilesAway
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I don't know if the Officials were afraid to give it or just corrupt? Madley and his linesman were both looking directly at it without obstruction. I have not seen a clearer penalty since Aguero was blatantly felled and booked for diving.
Channel 5's Pat Nevin could clearly see it was a penalty but couldn't bring himself to admit it. He said something like "that was a big call...the officials' have got most of the big calls right tonight."
Apart from MP mentioning it post match, most of the media has just dismissed it. No mention in the Goal.com match report. No questions from Channel 5 to Martinez or comments by Nevin, in a lengthy post match interview. BBC's Danny Mills and Sky's Moyes both implied it was a fair decision!
Only Sky's Peter Beagrie had the honesty to admit it was a clear penalty.
(My son said his Everton and United supporting school friends even admitted it was a blatant penalty.)
Not everyone.
Mark Ogden in the Indie was clear that it was a penalty and that Lukaku was interfering. I assume the world is about to end.
Moyes isn't going to admit anything ever, and I agree Channel 5 deliberately avoided the issue with Martinez. Nevin was just weaselly.
MillionMilesAway
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Always get a good report from Ogden on us, one of the better city journo's :)
The irony there is pitch black.
Good work, sir.
MillionMilesAway
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Stan or HIlda Ogden? We get nowt but snide, sneering shite from NoMark Oddun of the ToryGraph.
He's moved to the Indie.
And the report is genuinely surprising.
es1
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The Referee's Union closing ranks I see. ;-)
The original offence was in the first half and he finally gave the free kick sometime in the second.
ha!
i'll call it when it's a bad decision (how was that not a pen on wednesday!?) but when i feel it's just sour grapes and fans moaning it gets me angry!
i dont actually recall any incident like that in the west ham game...now jon moss v liverpool and extended advantage is another matter!
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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ha!
i'll call it when it's a bad decision (how was that not a pen on wednesday!?) but when i feel it's just sour grapes and fans moaning it gets me angry!
i dont actually recall any incident like that in the west ham game...now jon moss v liverpool and extended advantage is another matter!
Won't be long before we kick off and then Moss gives a free kick which he carried over from the reverse fixture!
He's moved to the Indie.
And the report is genuinely surprising.
Why ? perhaps his old paper told him to write biased anti city shite and his new mob allow him to report the match honestly. It is an excellent summary of the match and it covers all the key incidents. If he has changed his style of reporting you do have to ask why.
Chris in London
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Why ? perhaps his old paper told him to write biased anti city shite and his new mob allow him to report the match honestly. It is an excellent summary of the match and it covers all the key incidents. If he has changed his style of reporting you do have to ask why.
Ogden is a rag, pure and simple. He can no more bring himself to write well of us than we could of the rags. No need to look for deep conspiracies or dictates from editorial level here. You'd think as a professional journalist he'd have the objectivity to write well of us when the occasion deserves so but apparently not. So when Ogden says it was a penalty what he means is 'it's a stonewall'.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Spoke to him in 2014, nice guy but when I got philosophical about our chances of winning the league that year his reply was " that's what I love about you City fans". Paul Lake would be an ideal summariser, intelligent, insightful, knowledgeable but pro City.
Just the thing editors and programme commissioners need to know to go looking elsewhere. Hope Paul is busy and not sitting by the telephone. He is a very likeable character apart from the City connection, articulate, knowledgeable but blue!!
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