The officiating of our games certainly "appears" to be insidious, and I know what you mean about feeling like it's heading towards a really big "fuck off" aimed directly at our team AND Pep.
Am I naive in hoping that they allow it to be a fair "fight"? Or will PiGMoL not allow their mighty red-shirts to get smashed at home TWICE in such a short space of time? (Rhetorical questions really)
I have a feeling that we'll see Ronald O' being back to his despicable diving antics (mainly because in reality that's the only tactic they've really got that can hurt us) and I live in hope that the "Alty fan" won't give us another display like the infamous Chelsea match, by giving Dias or Stones a red card when he interprets the rules in a weird way after an apparently fair tackle.
But if that happens their could be absolute carnage, on and off the pitch.
Very weird (well, it's not even slightly weird, 'cause that's what it's ALL about) how "some" managers can explicitly call out an official's bias (getting in their heads) before a game so that they can then give it the "I told you so" when/if it happens, and the media lap it up and play ball so that everybody agrees with that manager; yet "other" managers have the threat of misconduct charges directed at them for even implying any sort of bias whilst getting publicly ridiculed and laughed at for being paranoid by the same media.
They're the reason why the message lands on deaf ears.