The City premier league trophy lifting at the end of the MOTD opening credits sequence will be CGI’d from blue to red...All we need now is for the opening credits for next season's Match of the Day to finish with Liverpool lifting the European Cup!
Can't wait......All we need now is for the opening credits for next season's Match of the Day to finish with Liverpool lifting the European Cup!
fair point mate, hair is back on. I just noticed they've changed the headlines anyway.wtf are people complaining about the bbc story of the fixtures,click on the link and BANG ,the champions
There's no difference between the Sissoko handball in the final and the Llorente handball. If the ball doesn't hit Llorente's elbow it's probably not bouncing down on his thigh and into the net. If it doesn't hit his elbow, the ball is hitting him upper thigh and would probably fall straight into the hands of Ederson.
The contact made from the elbow definitely helped the ball go into the net, therefore by the new rules it surely has to be given as a handball?
It's not new, it's just spelling out how refs have always interpreted it. The current rules were not made with VAR in mind.Absolutely. Under the new rules it would be disallowed. They haven't come in yet.
Pep was one of the biggest proponents of VAR, I think by the end of the coming season he may have a few things to say about it that are not so positive.
Absolutely. Under the new rules it would be disallowed. They haven't come in yet.
My point is what if it hadn't been offside and someone had bump Erikson so he did the dodgy back pass or some infringement before that, who decides how far back we look until a decision is made about a goal ?. In one match they may check an incident and in another game overlook a very similar incident. Unless certain rules are set in stone about this injustices will still occur.
It's not new, it's just spelling out how refs have always interpreted it. The current rules were not made with VAR in mind.
As I understand it, the new rules were in force last season in the CL from the quarter final stage, even though they were not be common currency until this month. So Llorente should not have been able to score off his arm, elbow, or whatever was sticking out of his shoulder!
I still think VAR will get there eventually. I just hope it's not always City getting the short end of a the stick as they figure it out.
Might have been said somewhere in the previous 1276 pages but the M.E.N. website always has Manchester U****d news before City's and the rags are listed first in spite of being after City both alphabetically and in other ways.
I have just complained to the BBC online.
https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?lang=en&reset=&uid=640422838#anchor
I suggest other fans could do also. If they get complaints someone, somewhere might pay attention sometime?
"Premier League bias in reporting of new Premier League fixtures.
Photograph of Liverpool holding CL trophy is not relevant to the Premier League which the article is about. Article leads with Liverpool rather than the PL Champions Manchester City. Throughout last season the BBC sport coverage was completely biased in favour of Liverpool and so with a new season the same bias continues. Acknowledge the current PL champions when reporting on a PL story and report fairly and even handedly on the clubs.
If this had been an article on the Champions League a photo of Liverpool and leading with their fixtures would have been appropriate, but it's not.
The continued bias of the sports section in the BBC in favour of Liverpool and Manchester United is blatant and constant. Please give independent neutral coverage as the BBC charter."
Christ. I think a lot of people need to take a step back a minute for the sake of their own sanity.
There's 19 other teams in the Premier League. Would say a Bournemouth fan look at the BBC website and claim bias when he or she doesn't see a picture of a Bournemouth player accompanying the announcement of the new fixtures? Do the promoted sides have a claim to be included? City do not have divine rights to being the only team that can be pictured. Although we are champions there are fans of other clubs to consider.
As it happens, the two times I have viewed the fixtures on the BBC app today they have been accompanied by a picture of Stones lifting the trophy and then the whole City team. People need to take a step back and have a bit more clarity to their thinking.
Might have been said somewhere in the previous 1276 pages but the M.E.N. website always has Manchester U****d news before City's and the rags are listed first in spite of being after City both alphabetically and in other ways.
Yep.Christ. I think a lot of people need to take a step back a minute for the sake of their own sanity.
There's 19 other teams in the Premier League. Would say a Bournemouth fan look at the BBC website and claim bias when he or she doesn't see a picture of a Bournemouth player accompanying the announcement of the new fixtures? Do the promoted sides have a claim to be included? City do not have divine rights to being the only team that can be pictured. Although we are champions there are fans of other clubs to consider.
As it happens, the two times I have viewed the fixtures on the BBC app today they have been accompanied by a picture of Stones lifting the trophy and then the whole City team. People need to take a step back and have a bit more clarity to their thinking.