Media bias against City

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franksinatra said:
If you are talking about an historical post I cannot remember it. Yes I will look forward to the context and I can only presume if you have broken down, when we have received penalties you have done the same for our rivals or there would be no context or direct comparison to benchmark against. Like you say it is all about the context.
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You must think I've loads of time on my hands. I will take the time to demonstrate the very few times that we get 'game changing' penalties that 'should' (but probably won't) stop you posting your often quoted stat relating to the amount of penalties we have been awarded. If you want to produce stats that show that our rivals have similarly limited penalties awarded that materially affect a result in the manner that happened this weekend for both the rags and spurs then be my guest. I would be genuinely interested to see the comparators and that would really get to the nub of the issue. My only objective is to ensure that you can't quote the same penalty stat in relation to mcfc as some sort of counter argument the next time we get a similar run of disgraceful penalty decisions not given as it will be proven that the majority of those penalties offered us no significant benefit.

Stats aside, you're total disregard of the last 5 non awarded penalties is staggering. The fact you continue to pedal the same penalty stat on every occasion where we get these disgraceful non decisions is a real head scratcher.
 
franksinatra said:
The problem with that is penalties not given is completely subjective. Even on Match of the Day, with the benefit of replays, agreement is not always reached on whether it was a penalty or not. Over the last 6 years city have received the most (with Chelsea) and conceded the less in comparison to our rivals Utd, Chelsea, Pool, Arsenal.

Interestingly City have a + 27 comparing for and against. Arsenal in comparison have a -1. A difference of 28 goals over 6 seasons.
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I was wondering who would put us right.
 
franksinatra said:
The problem with that is penalties not given is completely subjective. Even on Match of the Day, with the benefit of replays, agreement is not always reached on whether it was a penalty or not. Over the last 6 years city have received the most (with Chelsea) and conceded the less in comparison to our rivals Utd, Chelsea, Pool, Arsenal.

Interestingly City have a + 27 comparing for and against. Arsenal in comparison have a -1. A difference of 28 goals over 6 seasons.
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How many are given fr/against is not a great measure of ref quality, unless you believe that they know or take it into account. IF a team has 40 shots punched off the goalline, there's no argument about there being 40 penalties.

A far better scale is how many are given wrongly, both for and against. That is far more instructive of ref quality (you could even try to grade them as dead certs and iffy if you were brave).
 
Whilst half the posters seem to be arguing about penalties (in a media bias thread ?) I was bored the other night so put on the $ky recording of the Derby at our place last season. 3 nailed on, stonewall penalties that even the commentator said were penalties. Not one was given and if you remember Bogrush clattered Aguero and then screamed abuse 3" from the back of his head whilst the referee looked on.
 
Blue Mooner said:
You must think I've loads of time on my hands. I will take the time to demonstrate the very few times that we get 'game changing' penalties that 'should' (but probably won't) stop you posting your often quoted stat relating to the amount of penalties we have been awarded. If you want to produce stats that show that our rivals have similarly limited penalties awarded that materially affect a result in the manner that happened this weekend for both the rags and spurs then be my guest. I would be genuinely interested to see the comparators and that would really get to the nub of the issue. My only objective is to ensure that you can't quote the same penalty stat in relation to mcfc as some sort of counter argument the next time we get a similar run of disgraceful penalty decisions not given as it will be proven that the majority of those penalties offered us no significant benefit.

Stats aside, you're total disregard of the last 5 non awarded penalties is staggering. The fact you continue to pedal the same penalty stat on every occasion where we get these disgraceful non decisions is a real head scratcher.
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I asked you on another thread this question which you ignored so i'll try again

Do you think refs are instructed from the powers above to referee city matches dif to other clubs?
 
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