To be honest its only ever the bias stuff where I typically flow against the tide as with pretty much everything else my views are pretty average.
The one thing which makes me think I am not being unneccassarily contrary is if you added up the number of penalties people believe are pens on here it would completely dwarf those awarded to other clubs and break the record for pens awarded every season. Which indicates the way fans view pens is a very different threshold to how refs in the prem view them.
For example some fans on here believe we should have been awarded two pens yesterday and yet in the whole of last season 5 clubs in the Premiership never received more than 2 pens. I find it difficult to believe that over the course of 38 games similar moments such as the Silva/Aguero never took place.
2 pens yesterday would have matched the total Burnley, Swansea and West Brom received over 114 games last season.
Not trying to be funny here mate, but you more than anyone else on here, particularly with a self confessed WUM as frankie, will know that people see what they want to see.We have broken a series of records recently, including goals scored, points accumulated, possession and touches in opponents’ penalty areas. It is the fact that we are NOT getting significantly higher numbers of penalties (even if not records) that is anomalous.
The linesman and a few hundred City fans right behind him had an uninterrupted view but didn't see the handball. Neither did Ederson and he was nearest.Wrong again pal.
The linesman saw it with a completely uninterrupted view. The TV replays demonstrated this beyond any sort of doubt. The ref and his assistants work as a team, they aren’t independent from each other. They were in communication about two matters - potential offside and potential handball. Wolves were given the benefit of the doubt on both by the referee, acting in conjunction with his assistant. ( BTW, If they weren’t in communication that’s an even bigger failure than if they were just bent.)
Be that as it may, for future reference, the test it seems to me is this: where the referee (or his assistant) has had to make a game changing decision, the times we get a game changing decision in our favour should broadly equate to the times we don’t over the course of the season.
Do you agree that is a fair summation of the issue? Let’s see, if so, how the season pans out. If there is nothing untoward going on, you should have nothing to worry about.
The linesman and a few hundred City fans right behind him had an uninterrupted view but didn't see the handball. Neither did Ederson and he was nearest.
We seem to have had a better view of the Silva penalty shout than Atkinson who was a lot nearer that.
I’d say it was attention seeking rather than summing, squirty, but otherwise fair point well made.Not trying to be funny here mate, but you more than anyone else on here, particularly with a self confessed WUM as frankie, will know that people see what they want to see.