Media bias against City

[The blue phantom]

I am still staggered as to how Clattenburg survived suspension in 2008 however, 2 and a half years prior to the MOB gate affair.

I would still have him reffing our games than any other ref.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

So you agree that the things i have said exist probably do yet im straying into the realms of fantasy?

As for the stonewall penalty, no doubt, stonewall but its ever so easy for them to wave away our appeals for stonewall penalties whilst merrily blowing the whistle at every opportunity for theirs and thats the point i make.

Players like Kun and Sterling could get fucking shot by a sniper in the box right now and it would be waved away with some fucking idiot like Webb or media clown pundit saying not enough contact.

The PL is a huge business, £Billions of pounds and its only that because of a huge global fanbase that is predominately made up of rags, scouse, Arse and chav fans. Real competition and years of those sides winning nothing would hurt the brand, Scudamore said as much and to think a business man would do what was needed to protect the brand and the income streams is not so much of a stretch of the imagination.

PB has also said many a times that several high profile refs have suddenly had to retire because of info we as a club had on them and they were refs that we had suffered under.

Said it before, the richest league in the world should have the best refs and linesmen/women and for me, they should be brought in from around the world. No more Mr Altrincham or Bolton fan managing the rags to dodgy wins or denying us clear goals and penalties and that applies to every team in this league.

lets have a fair contest, refereed by the very best instead of the hand picked next big thing Mr Riley wants to push through despite them being clearly not up to the job.

I'm conceding that facility for corruption exists, not that it is actively taking place.

And as for referees 'merrily blowing the whistle at every opportunity for theirs', we've had 5 awarded to us this season in all competitions, as opposed to only one against (at Monchengladbach), as far as I can recall.

Some of the decisions against us have been incredible (Kun last season at Southampton, Navas at Everton last week), but I don't doubt that most clubs could point to similar instances, and clearly the referees who awarded us injury time penalties against Norwich and Monchengladbach, along with the lino who wrongly ruled out a second goal for Newcastle, were not on board with the instruction to nobble us.

I would concur with the poster who referenced the number of game changing penalties we get compared to the rags, the dippers et al, but that would require a degree of time and effort to investigate that I am unwilling to invest. A lot of our penalties do seem to come when we're already in front, whereas certainly Liverpool last season seemed to be awarded game savers with monotonous regularity. Like I say, I'd have to check that though.

Can you enlighten me as to who the refs who've had to suddenly retire cos of what we've 'had on them', are, cos bar the well documented Peter Walton, I'm not aware of any?

 

[WRicko]

Can you enlighten me as to who the refs who've had to suddenly retire cos of what we've 'had on them', are, cos bar the well documented Peter Walton, I'm not aware of any?[/QUOTE]

Can you tell me about Peter Walton as I know nothing about him and whatever you are referring to

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Again you are probably right with regards the Navas penalty but every club could point to similar instances where penalties were not given..

It does not make it right or fair but it does not make it bias either.

You're right.
One instance proves nothing.

I don't think the Leicester one was a complete howler, the ball got knocked sideways by something, and there wasn't a lot it could be. I suspect he guessed because he's Madley.

 

[BlueAnorak]

While we're on Football Is Fixed, does anyone know why he says the Arsenal analytics operation is far more professional than ours?

Well as SAP is all about customer lock in and raking in cash - NOT providing a good service.
As we (City) use SAP as our analytics platform, we're off to a bad start from the off.

Alternatively he had something to do with setting the Arsenal system up. He does like blowing his own trombone.

 

[Blue Mooner]

Well you did promise to put these pen stats in 'context' and I was even hoping you may throw a bit of this 'compelling evidence' into the mix also.

So far you have failed in your objective. Stop scratching your head and put some meat on the bones of your argument.

If you do not have this information, which highlights we only receive penalties when irrelevant incomparison to our rivals, let the stats stand that we receive the most (alongside Chelse) and concede the fewest.

Incidentally if you do highlight our pens are given when the penalty is irrelevant are you suggesting the referees are doing this on purpose???

Even far you this is a bit far-fetched.

I'm conceding that facility for corruption exists, not that it is actively taking place.

And as for referees 'merrily blowing the whistle at every opportunity for theirs', we've had 5 awarded to us this season in all competitions, as opposed to only one against (at Monchengladbach), as far as I can recall.

Some of the decisions against us have been incredible (Kun last season at Southampton, Navas at Everton last week), but I don't doubt that most clubs could point to similar instances, and clearly the referees who awarded us injury time penalties against Norwich and Monchengladbach, along with the lino who wrongly ruled out a second goal for Newcastle, were not on board with the instruction to nobble us.

I would concur with the poster who referenced the number of game changing penalties we get compared to the rags, the dippers et al, but that would require a degree of time and effort to investigate that I am unwilling to invest. A lot of our penalties do seem to come when we're already in front, whereas certainly Liverpool last season seemed to be awarded game savers with monotonous regularity. Like I say, I'd have to check that though.

Can you enlighten me as to who the refs who've had to suddenly retire cos of what we've 'had on them', are, cos bar the well documented Peter Walton, I'm not aware of any?

It's very true the limited game changing penalties we get. I looked into this last year but didn't keep the stuff unfortunately it's a fairly time consuming and laborious exercise but I will post asap. It is not such a leap of faith to believe that things are gerrymandered to favour the long standing elites imo. In fact you only need to look at that ridiculous Spurs offside to think all is not what it should be. That was one decision that was soo wrong and at such a crucial point in a game we had been dominating to make you think somethings not right. Take the rags penalty, complete consensus that it was a stonewall, really!? I saw a defender tap Memphis on the shin and him launch himself in the air.. I would argue there was more contact in most of the penalties we haven't been awarded and even in the game where Sterling got booked, we get 'that wasn't enough to take him down' whereas the general consensus among pundits is simply the idea of 'contact' but not where we're concerned. In today's football Memphis probably was a penalty as I would argue all of the one's we haven't been awarded were.

I even go so far as, the league schedule, the way television games are scheduled. It's taken years for the corruption in fifa to come to light and Lance Armstrong cheated his way to numerous tour de France victories despite cheating. We should remain vigilant and call this sort of sh#t out and not be cowed by those who simply believe everything is all fair and even.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

This thread is about media bias and could there have been any better evidence than the rags game against Sheffield United as to the different standards the media apply to us and them?

Swathes of empty seats at the swamp and a huge disparity between the costs of the two squads. Yet did anyone hear that mentioned by the BBC? They seem to have withheld the true attendance figure yet has any outlet made a fuss about that? Not only have they not, they've meekly made up figures for their match reports. One had 70,000, two others had different attendances over 73,000. These were clearly fabricated as there was a whole tier shut so at bet they couldn't have sold more than 50,000 tickets tops. No doubt if we failed to release an attendance figure to cover up a poor attendance, there would be questions in Parliament and journalists demanding a new law to force clubs to reveal the true attendance.

 

[jrb]

According to Sky Sports News this Evening, Paul Pogba, *the ex-Manchester United Player*, made the 2015 FIFA Pro XI.

And here's me thinking he's currently a Juventus player, first and foremost?

 

[jrb]

This thread is about media bias and could there have been any better evidence than the rags game against Sheffield United as to the different standards the media apply to us and them?

Swathes of empty seats at the swamp and a huge disparity between the costs of the two squads. Yet did anyone hear that mentioned by the BBC? They seem to have withheld the true attendance figure yet has any outlet made a fuss about that? Not only have they not, they've meekly made up figures for their match reports. One had 70,000, two others had different attendances over 73,000. These were clearly fabricated as there was a whole tier shut so at bet they couldn't have sold more than 50,000 tickets tops. No doubt if we failed to release an attendance figure to cover up a poor attendance, there would be questions in Parliament and journalists demanding a new law to force clubs to reveal the true attendance.

It's time to contact GMP again. ;-)

 

[laserblue]

It's time to contact GMP again. ;-)

A mate of mine did exactly that last year and was told the GMP don't keep their own figures despite releasing such figures only two years earlier. Hmm.