Taylor for the Liverpool game

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Fair enough mate, but I think you’re doing a bit of a disservice to some City fans by saying they simply go along with whatever the media say. The Kompany challenge would’ve been discussed on here regardless. As would the Sterling penalty decision, and indeed both have been. Think we’re splitting hairs though if we’re arguing about which one has been discussed more.

Im not splitting hairs Ric Im on a thread discussing Taylors performance. His decision not to give Raheem a penalty is yet another disgraceful decision against our team and IMO should not be minimised by a red herring discussion about a perfect Kompany tackle.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Anyway, we beat the Scouse filth with a Rag reffing it.

Nice !!!

 

[Ric]

Im not splitting hairs Ric Im on a thread discussing Taylors performance. His decision not to give Raheem a penalty is yet another disgraceful decision against our team and IMO should not be minimised by a red herring discussion about a perfect Kompany tackle.

Fair do’s mate. I agree that the Sterling one was a definite penalty, but thought Kompany’s challenge was a risky one that could’ve gone either way. Fuck it though, who really cares? We won, and that’s the main thing.

 

[mat]

I'm changing my opinion on Alti Fan.

Starting to think he's becoming a professional refferee who puts his career first and wants to be the next PL ref to officiate at World Cup final.

 

[Blue Mist]

27 pages in so let me just say this.
If a dog bit me I would give it another chance. Taylor is a Rag Bastard who has bitten me (us) at least three times. I am not going to give him any more chances no matter how 'nice' he seems because one day (soon) he will bite your bloody arm off. Once a bent bastard always a bent bastard.

 

[Saddleworth2]

My beef is with the media Ric, but also with some City fans who for whatever reason go along with what they say. As Ive already said the major decision he got wrong last night was not awarding us a penalty, not the Kompany tackle which to me wasn't even a foul let alone a card. And you are absolutely right, had they won there would have been no mention whatsoever of a nailed on penalty to us that wasn't given. To my mind, we won despite having a ref who despises us.

It was a card. Yellow for more salad for being @ diving c**nt

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I still think the Sterling incident should have been a penalty and I still think Vinnie did not commit anything remotely like a red card offence. At the time I thought it was a great block tackle and I'm still of that opinion now. I thought Liverpool were lucky not to have more players booked at least and I share the opinion that there is something sly about Salah, unpleasant about Mane and simpering about "Bobby" Firmino. I have to admit, though, that my viewpoint is (perhaps highly?) partial, even though I try to be objective. So, I do realise that a referee might take a different view of certain events. Against Chelsea two seasons ago I thought he refereed exactly as a rag lovin' Altrinchamite would do but in the derby earlier this season I thought he had a good game. On Thursday he made several decisions which I disagreed with but the scousers were dissatisfied with him at least as much as I was and I detected no evidence of bias or an anti-City "agenda", and our victory, combined with that in the derby, seems to amount to fairly conclusive proof of this. I will still be concerned when he is given charge of any of our games but that, I think, "is just me".

 

[Gray]

27 pages in so let me just say this.
If a dog bit me I would give it another chance. Taylor is a Rag Bastard who has bitten me (us) at least three times. I am not going to give him any more chances no matter how 'nice' he seems because one day (soon) he will bite your bloody arm off. Once a bent bastard always a bent bastard.

I don't care how good or ambitious he is, living in Altrincham he should not be officiating City and Stretford games.

He must have family, friends, neighbours etc who support one or other of the two teams he can not be human if he doesn't take on board their hopes and aspirations.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I just watched it again and Robertson got a hand in the face. Nothing to it but for some reason the ref decided it was a head injury.

Unfortunately everyone knows that refs are instructed to stop games immediately if there is a suspected head injury, although there have reason been games this season when they haven't (the refs were wrong not to).

Players therefore clutch their face to stop play and allow reorganisation, and possibly make the ref think it's been a whack from an opponent bringing worse punishment (see Walker/Calvert-Lewin).

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I saw it pretty close and immediately thought Sala had dived. Having seen it again in slow motion I think I was right first time. He jumped in anticipation of the challenge.

I think the laws say "attempting a challenge" is the foul, rather than "making contact". If a player's challenge is a foul challenge and the opponent gets out of the way, it can still be a foul.

In this case, if Salah had kept his feet, he'd have had a decent chance of scoring.