Ref for Sunday - Everton

[Manncity]

Brilliant work. It really is depressing how blatant the cheating is!

Lives in Winton, Eccles, yes he's a rag!!!!!!!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Just as a matter of interest one of the assistants at our game on Sunday is the mon who just give Liverpool that goal tonight.....which he got wrong

I suspect he'll be having a weekend off.

 

[kenzie115]

We've just played the Champions, with Atkinson giving them nearly everything they asked for whilst allowing them to kick lumps out of Silva and Sterling, and still won 3-0.

Taylor will be shit, and he'll favour Everton, but if we play like we did on Sunday, it won't matter.

 

[Ric]

Not really the ref you want for a game like this. Only way it could've been worse is if it was Lee Mason.

 

[squirtyflower]

Not really the ref you want for a game like this. Only way it could've been worse is if it was Lee Mason.

That would be just substituting one scum fan for another, except Mason has the greater experience of cheating

 

[Saddleworth2]

Manchester City were awarded the least amount of fouls of any teams last season {310 to City compared to 487 for Man Utd} and City committed 50 more fouls {472 to 389} than Everton last season. This appears odd when you consider the amount of time City spend in possession of the ball; City were ranked 1st for 'Possession in Final Third', 'Total Touches', 'Touches in Opponents Half', 'Touches in Final Third' and 'Touches in Penalty Area' and 2nd for 'overall possession' and 'overall possession in final third'. It would have made sense to me that a team on the back-foot who are defending, without the ball who need to make tackles, clearances and interceptions would commit more fouls but City aren't in that scenario. Therfore to conclude it must be because we maintain possession of the ball for long spells of the game and when we lose the ball we press the ball aggressively; yet that doesn’t explain why the statistics are so extreme when comparing City and United. So we must consider a team who play a similar style in another league; let’s choose Barcelona as it’s no secret that this is the team that Man City aspires to replicate both on and off the pitch! I’m starting to understand why it often feels like the referee is not watching the same game as we the fans are when the sums don’t add up! Perhaps someone could explain that to me? The only logic I can see is that Eibar play in sky blue!

These are almost unbelievable stats when you see them in black and white. One of the things that was so interesting on Sunday was the contrast between our players and Chelsea when reacting to fouls. Hazard went down at the lightest touch and was immediately awarded a free kick. So did most of their team. David was subject to constant fouling and keeps going until he is rugby tackled. Same with Sergio. I think I even detected a change in raheem who seemed less keen on hitting the turf. Do we think this attitude explains the stats? It's difficult to believe that there is institutional bias against us from the entire referee community or am I being naive? By the way Madchester, great post.

 

[buzzer1]

If the twats as bad as Peter shithouse Walton then just give em the 3 points,apart from that we'll be fine.

 

[Vic]

Late in second half, one of our players was fouled, and this time (3-0 up) we just decided we weren't going to play advantage even though Atkinson was signalling to play on. Technically he'd have been within his rights not to give the foul as we had possession but we just refused to play on until he reluctantly gave the free kick. And if he hadn't, it wouldn't have shown in the stats as a foul, even though it was - like Costa's on Fernandinho in the first half didn't "count". If they added in fouls where the ref clearly signals advantage to us after a foul, the fouls against column would go up.

Incidentally, have you seen tunnel cam at 7 minutes - coming out for second half and Vinny sees Costa staring at Fernandinho so gets alongside Fern... just in case. Then Pellers has a (soothing?) word with Costa.

 

[Dax777]

Let's be honest they are all shite. Winning comfortably has masked how bad both Dean and Atkinson were. West Brom were lucky not to have finished with nine on the pitch. He let a unquestionable yellow go after four minutes and the same player Gardner committed numerous fouls before eventually getting a yellow. As the hired thug who came on at half time specifically to boot David all over the pitch how he stayed on I have no idea! Then there was the obligatory penalty not given.
Yesterday Atkinson let them get away with murder especially Fabregas, Costa and Ivanovic, the latter really should be sent off every week so persistent does he foul. To a man everyone sat near me knew the first yellow would be shown to a City player despite Chavski's constant fouling. 4 bookings to 2 was laughable.
So Taylor may well be a useless tosspot but he is one of many.

In fairness, Atkinson was just incompetent. Ivanovic should have gotten sent off, but so should Yaya for a professional foul that should have been a yellow, when he was already on one. Silva persistently fouling could and should have been carded a few times. Especially with the mouthing off hecwas doing. Dihno could easily have been red carded for the elbow, even though I tot there was nothing in it. A bloodied head would have led many to conclude Red. So yeah, many calls were missed on both sides. Some for and others against. I've trained my self not to worry about the refs incompetence anymore. Just play through it.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

If the rag er I mean ref had applied the above standards with the Chelsea players we'd have been abandoned before half time due to lack of Chavs left on the pitch.

Atkinson worried me especially between 45-65 mins where he gave everything against us. He was either levelling up not sending Dino off in his own mind or he'd had a bet on a Chav goal in that 20 mins.