It's been going on in our games for a long time now. At first I thought it was accidental, but it happens far too often.
I'm not sure the officials are conversing over the headset to conspire, but the referee certainly knew the likely outlet ball and positioned himself accordingly - right in the f*cking way time after time yesterday, more so in the second half. It is 100% deliberate, and clearly used to slow us down and disrupt our flow.
Maybe the PL just want an exciting "product", but they are basically conning the punters. City have brought the standards up in the PL since Pep took over, but it seems the cheating b*stards don't want us to dominate as it makes the rest look bad, and we can't have that can we...……..
CVNTS!