Referees' Performances | 2025/26

[dennishasdoneit]

Taylor is a fucking cheat, and it’s despicable that he is still allowed to referee our games at this point. He shouldn’t have stepped foot in the Etihad again after that Chelsea game in Pep’s first year, and yet here we are still talking about the same things from him nearly a decade on.

That Chelsea game.....still angry about it now.
Taylor was a disgrace that day,and lived locally to Manchester.
Now after a decade.he,lives London ,but was still selected to ref this match..
I remember the days when Refs were picked locally to the match played
Now..it's a pigclub,lavish salaries,Superstar refs.all control and power
I really don't know how Blues stomach it all
Sickening to watch this tight unit exert power and control over the once beautiful game.
The players must be sick of it.

 

[ninjamonkey]

We were 'told' VAR looked at it, we don't know they did because they are completely unaccountable. There is no independent auditing of their processes, or scrutiny of the PL's influence upon them. It's absolutely ripe for corruption.

Just because we, the public don't get access to it, it doesnt mean nobody gets access to coms, it all gets recorded, we see some of it come out from time to time, there used to be that show from howard webb going over controversial decisions, The audio for that dipper game against spurs got released, the commentators get some kind of internal line to them too.

If there was corruption, it would be far simpler to just not have var. var makes it far more difficult to justify anything that could be questioned, without it you just say human error and cannot argue against it.

Its all completely needless conspiratorial chatter anyway, as it wasn't a handball and not even debatable.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I don’t think Taylor can be blamed for allowing the Bournemouth goal, on first viewing it looked to me something and nothing, it was only on seeing different angles that the arm pull was apparent. Tierney on the other hand should have seen it and brought it to Taylor’s attention.

Tierney was VAR at Klanfield too.

Two weeks running the same VAR ref has officiated our game and the dippers.

I have a feeling it'll be Tierney and Brooks on VAR for the dippers.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

We were 'told' VAR looked at it, we don't know they did because they are completely unaccountable. There is no independent auditing of their processes, or scrutiny of the PL's influence upon them. It's absolutely ripe for corruption.

A Proper tight Unit going on there.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Personally I think we should complain to the powers that be about Taylor the skunk just as that Ferguson fellow did about a ref and he didn’t referee their matches again.

 

[pauls]

Just got home and watched it, fucking Bournemouth player holding Donnarummas arm, not a word from Smith - imagine if that had been on Raya, two faced arsenal ****

They had ex goalie Green on MOTD where you think it would have been an interesting debate to be had,but no was never even mentioned !
Dont anyone ever try to convince me there is not an anti City agenda throughout the game.

 

[HypnoticBlue]

This mate of yours. Does he support Altrincham FC?

No he’s blind!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Just because we, the public don't get access to it, it doesnt mean nobody gets access to coms, it all gets recorded, we see some of it come out from time to time, there used to be that show from howard webb going over controversial decisions, The audio for that dipper game against spurs got released, the commentators get some kind of internal line to them too.

If there was corruption, it would be far simpler to just not have var. var makes it far more difficult to justify anything that could be questioned, without it you just say human error and cannot argue against it.

Its all completely needless conspiratorial chatter anyway, as it wasn't a handball and not even debatable.

Except under the current setup VAR is the illusion of transparency. What better way to hide corruption than to pretend you are doing something about it?

 

[ninjamonkey]

Except under the current setup VAR is the illusion of transparency. What better way to hide corruption than to pretend you are doing something about it?

I think there are much easier ways of doing it if there was indeed widespread corruption. Going down the route of intentionally feigning incompetence as some kind of decoy is rather elaborate.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I think there are much easier ways of doing it if there was indeed widespread corruption. Going down the route of intentionally feigning incompetence as some kind of decoy is rather elaborate.

It's a £Multi-Billion industry. You'd have to be mad to believe there is no corruption in the sport, and it's almost certainly at the highest levels of governance.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

They had ex goalie Green on MOTD where you think it would have been an interesting debate to be had,but no was never even mentioned !
Dont anyone ever try to convince me there is not an anti City agenda throughout the game.

That says it all.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

That Chelsea game.....still angry about it now.
Taylor was a disgrace that day,and lived locally to Manchester.
Now after a decade.he,lives London ,but was still selected to ref this match..
I remember the days when Refs were picked locally to the match played
Now..it's a pigclub,lavish salaries,Superstar refs.all control and power
I really don't know how Blues stomach it all
Sickening to watch this tight unit exert power and control over the once beautiful game.
The players must be sick of it.

The players and the manage know when they are being fucked over, and that Chelsea game was a prime example. The disparity in decision making from Taylor that day was blatant, almost like he'd been instructed to tilt the tables in favour of Chelsea. When Aguero got taken out by Luis, I thought there was no way Taylor couldn't send him off... and then he put his finger to his ear, and then nothing. Even the Chelsea bench were pissing themselves.

Chelsea players quickly worked out what was going on too. Niggly fouls by Chelsea going unpunished, the slightest touch by a City player and Alty blew his whistle, clear opportunity to play advantage for City and he'd pull the play back for the foul, clear foul and no advantage and he'd play on. That game was utterly fucking blatant, and our players and Pep were absolutely fuming.

That was the game that saw Ian Cheeseman and the BBC part company after Cheesy blew his top after the game. He knew full well we'd been fucked over.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

One of the worse refereeing performances I’ve seen in 50 years watching football City need to put in a request that Taylor should not be officiating a Game that involves Manchester City that foul on Donnarumma was absolutely scandalous

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

That says it all.

Doesn't it just?

The editing of the games and post match discussions set the narrative. Fans of other teams don't get to see us being fucked over, yet if one of the Cartel clubs gets 'wronged' we never hear the fucking last of it.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

The players and the manage know when they are being fucked over, and that Chelsea game was a prime example. The disparity in decision making from Taylor that day was blatant, almost like he'd been instructed to tilt the tables in favour of Chelsea. When Aguero got taken out by Luis, I thought there was no way Taylor couldn't send him off... and then he put his finger to his ear, and then nothing. Even the Chelsea bench were pissing themselves.

Chelsea players quickly worked out what was going on too. Niggly fouls by Chelsea going unpunished, the slightest touch by a City player and Alty blew his whistle, clear opportunity to play advantage for City and he'd pull the play back for the foul, clear foul and no advantage and he'd play on. That game was utterly fucking blatant, and our players and Pep were absolutely fuming.

That was the game that saw Ian Cheeseman and the BBC part company after Cheesy blew his top after the game. He knew full well we'd been fucked over.

And that was the game I lost my head with premiership football.
Stopped going after that game.
It was a disgrace.
I fully understand why Ian cheeseman left the bbc over that match.
Fully.A man of Principals.both he and me took action,..and this was before VAR.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Fucking embarrassment.

I quite enjoy it when referees have overtly shit games because it causes an atmosphere.

But that today was taking the piss. I’m sure not letting us take the corner at the end of the first half was his ego after getting shit from the fans.

Twice this season we've not been able to take a corner for HT....I've yet to see it happen in any other UK game this season.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Doesn't it just?

The editing of the games and post match discussions set the narrative. Fans of other teams don't get to see us being fucked over, yet if one of the Cartel clubs gets 'wronged' we never hear the fucking last of it.

Indeed I've just watched motd from last night.

A different game in the highlights to what I saw in person......again.

I know there's only a limited amount of the match they can show but, the edit is always shit and the discussion with an ex rag & keeper was crap too and padded out going round in circles deliberately missing the vital points.

I had the usual from non-City mates....why are you moaning you won.
This is what we're up against.

 

[herrock]

Allegations of cheating are a bit overblown, he has reffed us in the past , and reffed very well. Yesterday he was just crap. As for their goal, Donarumma did have his arm tugged, but should have dealt with the cross better than that.

 

[mancboy]

Allegations of cheating are a bit overblown, he has reffed us in the past , and reffed very well. Yesterday he was just crap. As for their goal, Donarumma did have his arm tugged, but should have dealt with the cross better than that.

And this is the kind of bullshit the press use to justify cheating, should amad stay on his feet more often when he dives every five minutes at the swamp, course he should but you never hear that, should the refs be stronger with the nonsense that arsenal pull at every single corner, yeah they should but you never hear that. its a foul plain and simple and the fact that we got the ridiculous excuse of well he stopped fouling him before the ball got there shows that they knew damn well it was a foul and were walking on the fly.

The fact that we won that game and pep still called out taylor shows that it was a joke of a decision among a litany of joke decision, i mean for good sake their right back had hold of doku that much im surprised he didnt get done for sexual harassment never mind a foul but as usual taylor called nothing.

 

[waspish]

Allegations of cheating are a bit overblown, he has reffed us in the past , and reffed very well. Yesterday he was just crap. As for their goal, Donarumma did have his arm tugged, but should have dealt with the cross better than that.

Saying he should dealt with it better well you try being on your toes ready to jump while someone is got there arm wrapped round the top of your arm then jus testing when the ball comes over you see donno jumps and its angles to how he got pulled!