Upset Taggart... why the fook was anyone worried about upsetting that old cnut... it baffles me!You read the stats with rags games, in a lot of them the ref will book the other teams defenders early, almost putting them on the back foot early on.
Graham Poll said something in his book along the lines of he used to get an email telling him how to ref the match at the rags in favour of them as they didn't want to upset taggart.
I'm 99.9% sure he mentions it in his book, will have to look for a link for it.
Edit..
Found this.
How Ex-Ref Poll Lifted Lid on Myth of Man U “Dominance” – by Rob Atkinson
As a Leeds United fan, the twenty year period between the start of the Premier League era and the departure from Man U of Alex Ferguson was for me a two-decades long spell of misery and disillusion…roblufc.org
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PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules
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With news now being online, journalists get what is effectively a commission based on clicks... the more clicks an article gets the more money in their pocket - and the pocket of the media outlet, as it attracts more ad revenue.@tolmie's hairdoo said recently that you'll be surprised that journalists don't take money from clubs. They write sympathetic articles to the red tops as they're fans.
I still don't see them ignoring what would be breaking the biggest story in football in years.
So, they pander to whatever gets them those clicks... it's the same reason Talkshite come out with outrageously stupid topics in the hopes it will get people to phone in!
I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??
Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.
Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??
Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.
Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???
I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??
Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.
Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???
Mentioned this on another thread! It’s like they’ve been told we are going to get punished what ever that punishment will be no idea
Prestwich_Blue
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Hard to say really. My suspicion is that they're looking for more than anyone is prepared to offer. Could also be that they're testing the water, to see what peoole are prepared to pay. Or maybe they're really just looking to sell a minority stake to bring in some cash.I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??
Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.
Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???
BeerIsTheBest
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Hard to say really. My suspicion is that they're looking for more than anyone is prepared to offer. Could also be that they're testing the water, to see what peoole are prepared to pay. Or maybe they're really just looking to sell a minority stake to bring in some cash.
PB. Probably correct on the greed on the price combined with a desire to hang onto a trophy asset via secondary investment.
Or, perhaps the latest incarnation of the ESL has offered hope to the Yanks that the ESL could yet bear fruit.
Prestwich_Blue
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I see on the BBC Football page this morning that two of the most prominent stories are Liverpool not for sale and Glazers may not sell United ??
Bearing in mind that the Yanks are only in this to make money, do we infer from this that they are now more confident of making money, and by continuation, City are going to get screwed ??
Could do with some input from @petrusha, @Prestwich_Blue or @projectriver.
Gents - with your legal, financial backgrounds, would that be a fair assumption ?? Or am I just being my usual typical City, glass-half-empty pessimistic self ???
If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.
FantasyIreland
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Not so leftfield,ive heard that said a few times.If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.
tolmie's hairdoo
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I think they at least subconsciously buy into the whole money narrative and underdog crowds. Saturday a perfect example.
No absolute shockers but definite in-game microagressions and marginal decisions against us every time. He couldn’t wait to blow up for full time despite them wasting half the alloted four minutes
We have to be sufficiently ruthless to make the officials irrelevant and we haven’t done that often enough this season
It's human nature, confirmation bias.
Arsenal were fucked over a few times recently by ref decisions.
And journos writing negative articles about City is simply those who have their own agendas or partisan allegiances.
If the lines are somewhat grey, it gives those type of detractors the open goal to hide in plain sight.
If you want a really left-field theory, the Glazers could just be using this to drive up the share price. I've long had a suspicion that they could be using united shares to secure debts on their shopping malls, and the lenders could be after more collateral.
Thanks for the prompt reply - does seem a bit suspicious to me for them both to have a complete volte face all of a sudden.