manclad
Well-Known Member
Rag!!!!I appear to be the only blue totally unarsed about these comments. It’s just a daft one-eyed football moron talking biased bullshit.
Rag!!!!I appear to be the only blue totally unarsed about these comments. It’s just a daft one-eyed football moron talking biased bullshit.
That's what I keep hearing; consistency. Two penalty incidents, two correct decisions; that's consistency in my book.
Funny that. Same for me.Have to admit this is the first time I have ever laughed at something Alan Davis said.
The consistency they argue for is in fact already there, they are just too stupid or dishonest to understand it. (Or are just whinging crybabies looking for any excuse where there is in fact none.)
The complaint is that Atwell wasn't sent to look at the monitor for their penalty claim where he was for ours. In fact, their penalty claim was reviewed by VAR. That review was conducted in Stockley Park. It found no evidence of a 'clear and obvious error.' That's why Atwell was not asked to look at the monitor himself. There was nothing that could justify him in overturning his own decision.
Likewise the claim that Jesus had been fouled will have been reviewed. Again, whether we think it should have been given or not, the referee has decided it wasn't, and there was no footage showing a clear and obvious error. Likewise each and every potential penalty shout that wasn't given.
The reason Atwell WAS asked to look at the footage again for the foul on Bernado was that there WAS evidence of a clear and obvious error, namely the shirt tug. Atwell had seen (or should be assumed to have seen) Xhaka's left leg come out in real time, and must have seen Silva fall. He decided that's not a penalty. Fair enough, that's his call, even if we disagree. But what VAR sees is the film of the shirt pull. That was clear footage. It was a clear foul. THAT's why Atwell is asked to review his decision. And when presented with evidence that his on-field decision was clearly and obviously wrong, he reversed it and awarded the penalty.
There is absolutely no inconsistency in the way VAR was applied.
The only inconsistency is that the media - Jonathan Northcroft, I'm looking at you and Darren Lewis - man the barricades with arguments about whether EPL referees are good enough whenever a contentious decision goes in City's favour (which isn't often.) The inconsistency is that none of them said a fucking word when Paul Tierney failed to send off James Milner twice when we played Liverpool.
Darren Lewis was a right **** with this last Sunday morning.The consistency they argue for is in fact already there, they are just too stupid or dishonest to understand it. (Or are just whinging crybabies looking for any excuse where there is in fact none.)
The complaint is that Atwell wasn't sent to look at the monitor for their penalty claim where he was for ours. In fact, their penalty claim was reviewed by VAR. That review was conducted in Stockley Park. It found no evidence of a 'clear and obvious error.' That's why Atwell was not asked to look at the monitor himself. There was nothing that could justify him in overturning his own decision.
Likewise the claim that Jesus had been fouled will have been reviewed. Again, whether we think it should have been given or not, the referee has decided it wasn't, and there was no footage showing a clear and obvious error. Likewise each and every potential penalty shout that wasn't given.
The reason Atwell WAS asked to look at the footage again for the foul on Bernado was that there WAS evidence of a clear and obvious error, namely the shirt tug. Atwell had seen (or should be assumed to have seen) Xhaka's left leg come out in real time, and must have seen Silva fall. He decided that's not a penalty. Fair enough, that's his call, even if we disagree. But what VAR sees is the film of the shirt pull. That was clear footage. It was a clear foul. THAT's why Atwell is asked to review his decision. And when presented with evidence that his on-field decision was clearly and obviously wrong, he reversed it and awarded the penalty.
There is absolutely no inconsistency in the way VAR was applied.
The only inconsistency is that the media - Jonathan Northcroft, I'm looking at you and Darren Lewis - man the barricades with arguments about whether EPL referees are good enough whenever a contentious decision goes in City's favour (which isn't often.) The inconsistency is that none of them said a fucking word when Paul Tierney failed to send off James Milner twice when we played Liverpool.