Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[Stephen230]

With Sky, perhaps that is the case, but the BBC (and others) are a different matter entirely. They shy away from contentious incidents every fcuking week in their highlights packages. GAME CHANGING incidents that just 'never happened'. It's almost inexplicable unless you consider it's a deliberate effort to control the narrative.

The trouble is that what a fan of a particular club considers a highly contentious issue gone against them, is often neither here nor there to a neutral.

If say eight teams lose on a Saturday, fans of all of them will be outraged about at least two decisions on average.

They’ve got to leave a bit of time for the football.

When you get an incident like the Newcastle penalty on Saturday. Which everyone would acknowledge as contentious, they spent longer talking about that than they did showing some of the actual games.

 

[Blue Mist]

Here's a thought. The handball/elbow/shirt pulling in the dying seconds.
The ref knows that if he gives that and City score (and win) he will be attacked mercilessly by Sky and the rest of the media.
It is far easier for him, Var and Pigmob to ignore it.
And that, without any brown envelopes, is corruption.

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Take any of our penalty appeals from yesterday and compare those to ANY of the penalties that Jota has won for the dippers over the last two seasons.

Jota is absolutely a cheating diving shitstain of a footballer

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Should bring in a new rule that any goalie who take longer that 10 seconds to kick the ball they'll be an extra 1 minute added

Matches would be finishing at midnight.....

 

[cheekybids]

Here's a thought. The handball/elbow/shirt pulling in the dying seconds.
The ref knows that if he gives that and City score (and win) he will be attacked mercilessly by Sky and the rest of the media.
It is far easier for him, Var and Pigmob to ignore it.
And that, without any brown envelopes, is corruption.

That’s exactly it. The fall out from that being awarded would have been outrage that once again City get looked after.

Unlike teams back in the changing rooms coming back out for a penalty for the Rags all those years ago….

 

[ZanteWeatherman]

Maybe - but I don't think it's a penalty.

Imagine Walker as the defender, and Sterling the attacker. You'd 100% expect a foul against Walker.

Walker is slightly behind Sterling, he's the one further from the ball, stretches, isn't close to getting a touch on the ball, and trips Sterling.

Eden Hazard used to do this shit all of the time. Foul given every time. Pen for me.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Sorry bud these are flat earth arguments.
Stoppage time - Ref is looking directly at the incident.
Walker: clearly kicked by Sterling
Doku stamped on by Caicedo: ref a few yards away looking directly at it again. And after that, he had a boatload more fouls.
Everton injury time: in no world was there 6 mins more stoppages than Sat. Plus how can/why should Everton benefit from Pickford's time wasting?

The ball was in between bodies, so it would have been impossible to see the handball.

Walker stuck his leg out in front of Sterling, initiated contact and tripped Sterling.

Godfrey went down for about 5 mins on his own with concussion in the Everton match. That’s the fundamental reason for the difference in time added on.

Your last question is an interesting one. Ultimately, if a team time wastes before starting to lose, then that time will naturally be added up.

What would have happened if the ref had said 3 mins to negate their time wasting, but they managed to equalise in those minutes?

Then their time wasting should be added back on.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Here's a thought. The handball/elbow/shirt pulling in the dying seconds.
The ref knows that if he gives that and City score (and win) he will be attacked mercilessly by Sky and the rest of the media.
It is far easier for him, Var and Pigmob to ignore it.
And that, without any brown envelopes, is corruption.

But all of this doesn't seem to stop them from awarding injury time penalties to certain other teams, I even remember one team being awarded a penalty AFTER the final whistle!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The trouble is that what a fan of a particular club considers a highly contentious issue gone against them, is often neither here nor there to a neutral.

If say eight teams lose on a Saturday, fans of all of them will be outraged about at least two decisions on average.

They’ve got to leave a bit of time for the football.

When you get an incident like the Newcastle penalty on Saturday. Which everyone would acknowledge as contentious, they spent longer talking about that than they did showing some of the actual games.

I'm talking about potential GAME CHANGING events. The deliberate kick out at Ederson's head last week is a case in point. Airbrushed from history.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Jota is absolutely a cheating diving shitstain of a footballer

It's coached at Liverpool. There is no other explanation for their diving and cheating at every opportunity.