Media Discussion - 2023/24

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Can we move on from all the VAR talk yet? OK, so there are comparisons with the Rashford goal but both were given so there is at least a modicum of consistency there. For those that said 'yes, but the Rashford goal changed the game', it did, but it didn't change the season as we won the Treble - that'll do for me!

On to West Ham.

It's the media that needs to move on. For some reason they seem to have developed a case of selective amnesia and have totally forgotten about the Rashford situation last season

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Akanji was offside, rashford was offside. We all used to just know that. PGMOL and tribalism have created a microscopic viewpoint of every little action, every foot, arm, flick off the fingers, what the hell ever.

Take a step back PGMOL, we all know they were both offside, stop using a microscope to look at the moon.

 

[Groke]

All we know is that if this was one of the red shirt teams it wouldn't be up for discussion. It's a clear agenda to put doubt in the referee's and Var's mind for the next time.

yep - always the same, city get seen to get a favourable decision (a couple of times a season) and there is outrage (including from the supposedly wronged team), and kept in the headline for days, e.g. a beeb article on their main sports page - with nearly 1k comments (no doubt all fairly moderated). When Liverpool and united get their one or two a game there is hardly anything said about it and is usually swept under the carpet within a couple of hours or so, notably the wronged team and their fans seem to accept it - e.g. those villa cunts, Forest the other week was a bit of an exception.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Not sure exactly what people were expecting from this sham by Webb, because it is clear that he and the rest of the PiGMOL cult are always going to cover up the blatant flaws that we see every week, game after game.

The rags and dippers will always get a pass when they transgress and everybody else is collateral damage in the PL /FA programme.

Cynical - abso.......fucking .......utely .

 

[dadnlad]

His victim was told to clap as loudly as anyone in Spain too ;)

sorted for you

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

I recall a game at the Etihad against Blackburn, with the score 2-1 to City the away team got a corner, a short corner was taken and the ball came in, David Dunn jumped to head the ball and missed from an offside position, the linesman immediately flagged, the ball continued its path to Santa Cruz who headed the ball in the net, but the City defenders and keeper didn’t make much of an effort as the flag had gone up. The referee then consulted the linesman and much to everyone’s surprise awarded the goal! Who was that referee? Step forward Howard Webb.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

All we know is that if this was one of the red shirt teams it wouldn't be up for discussion. It's a clear agenda to put doubt in the referee's and Var's mind for the next time.

Exactly

 

[KPXBLN]

There’s some crazy revisionism on here about the media reaction to the Rashford goal; people are acting like everyone said it was fine when that clearly wasn’t the case as far as I remember it. From a Jonathan Wilson article in the Guardian for example:

“Under the law as it stands, it may have been the correct decision, but the modern offside law is a mess. Everything about Manuel Akanji’s positioning and decision-making was conditioned by what Marcus Rashford did. It may make it easier to judge whether a player is on- or offside effectively by interpreting interfering as touching the ball, but that does not mean it is right. Rashford essentially played the most protracted dummy in history.”

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[Bald fraud]

Said it before. They “offside” goal we scored Saturday will be “evened out” don’t worry about that. More than likely in a tight game when we’re drawing or losing

 

[dadnlad]

well the akanji outrage has swept the wolves non penalty off radar job done pat on back for webb