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JPAMCR said:
Just seen Lampard has been charged for his comments about the non-pen against Liverpool.

fucking ridiculous, complains about the scousers, gets charged, complains about us, gets a fucking apology.
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Ruling with an iron fist the cnuts.
Let's us get on with corruption in football but you better not breathe a word about it if it effects you
 
City1969 said:
In the same breath Silva (I think) was lucky not to get sent off against liverpool for 2 yellows, like I said these decisions come and go for every team, we’ve had more than our fair share of luck and also bad luck, just like others have as well.

I’m as frustrated as everyone, but last nights result was down to the game management, not the ref. Yes RM should have had a player off, but Walker was lucky to stay on the pitch as well. Laporte was lucky not to get a second yellow

Why couldn’t city run the game down like European teams do? We seemed fine to time waste in the first half, but when needed at 85 mins+ their heads went and were unable to do so.

The ref blew his whistle 7 seconds early and people are going mad on social media about that, I think that sums up last nights result, a lot of people wanting to blame something for the result other than the poor game management.
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Good post but I don't entirely agree in the last paragraph. Yes some people will incorrectly blame the result on the refereeing decisions and timekeeping when in fact it was definitely almost entirely due to our game management.

Then there are some, like me, who can accept that it was our own fault, but just want a level playing field.

You reference that Walker and Laporte maybe could have received cards, however both of these incidents are subjective (as in 100 people could watch and there would be a good split either way). With Casemiro however they were BOTH stone cold yellow cards within viewing distance of the referee and assistant.

You also reference the few seconds the referee chopped off at the end of extra time, that in itself wouldn't really be something to question although frustrating, however it was the fact that there categorically should have been a good 3 extra minutes added on.

These are binary incidents, there can be zero debate (as agreed by numerous commentators and ex pros) that all of those decisions were completely incorrect with no real explanation as to how that could happen. I mean the measurement of missed time is the biggest concern and evidence point for me, you just can't get that wrong with a watch and maths, it's like you telling me as a teacher that 2 + 2 = 6, me showing you evidence on paper that it equals 4 but you still refusing to admit it's the factual truth, show me no contrary evidence and then fail me on an exam, that would never be allowed to happen in a school due to checks and balances, and so these lost minutes in football games (with no explanation) should never be allowed to happen in football.

In all other instances across leisure and business where millions/billions are at stake there are controls in place to stop potential corruption. This just isn't in place in football timekeeping which absolutely could involve millions of pounds implications. If city sent a time captioned version of that extra time to UEFA showing that 3 or so extra minutes was missed off, there would be no onus on the officials or UEFA to explain why, in fact they couldn't explain because it's a metric based shortfall and isn't subjective. The only real answer is a stop/start watch on screen display like other sports, question is why doesnt football want that, the one thing that would resolve the issue instantly and they won't implement it, that says everything to me.

AND as a trained referee you can't see those Casemiro challenges and not issue a yellow card for each it's just plain wrong.

Who knows if any of this would have changed the result, probably not, however you just want to watch as a fan thinking that the decisions are being given fairly and sadly the evidence shows that this is questionable in European games.
 
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JPAMCR said:
Just seen Lampard has been charged for his comments about the non-pen against Liverpool.

fucking ridiculous, complains about the scousers, gets charged, complains about us, gets a fucking apology.
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Look into the context of what was said. You will see why he was charged
 
Every fucking game.....we end up talking about the incompetence of these useless cunts.

That twat last night never had control of the game,and very much ensured the nails in our coffin.

In any other industry,if performance was so poor and even aroused suspicion,there would be a major investigation and heads would roll.These wankers are seemingly a protected species.
 
Apart from the lack of cards for Casemiro, the most obvious sign he was cheating was when he failed to give a foul on Foden on the edge of their box. He was about to give it, appeared to catch eye contact with Modric, then all of a sudden decided to wave it away. Would love to see the clip again.

The others were the decisions against Sterling.
 
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