The Agenda

Vic said:
I seem to recall there were some dodgy decisions earlier in the season, but no-one was too bothered as we were scoring enough for it not to be crucial.

Bookings for Mario might be an "agenda" but Dowd is just incompetent. If there was an agenda he wouldn't have booked Gerrard early on. We should have got on Gerrard after that just like other teams get on Mario.
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Please remind me of the early season decisions.
 
Can't remember what game it was but I remember one home game on our best period when we won with 3-4 goals but saw only 5-6 fouls for us and 20+ against us. I remember fans cheering fouls given more than goals.

Opss, just seen it's mentioned on previous pages, it was against Wolves.
 
Most Premiership referees are in their mid to late forties, meaning when they grew up (70s and 80s) the top sides were who? Liverpool and United. Which teams will they have supported as kids? Their local sides, or like many other kids, the top sides of the day.

One guy on here claims to have known Walton as a kid, and claims he was a United fan. What's the chance that many of them still have allegiances to their childhood favourites? What chance City featuring as someones favourite? (None).
 
In real time I thought it was a pen, like I thought mario had done nothing. Not a plot just a bad call. Reality is we got good calls against spurs and being out of the cups can only help our prem battle. Maybe the agenda is to help us win the prem and it is Bernies pro city agenda!
 
bobmcfc said:
Does anyone think that referees are 100% totally impartial and fair ? could it be possible there are officials out there that have a snide dislike for certain teams or a favourite ?. We have journos that openly admit to disliking us, why not refs ? they are human afterall
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Its possible, but I don’t think so. Refs are human beings and its very easy to sit home and watch your replays over and over and then make the right decision. It seems after each lose some people cant even accept a defeat and look for excuses. Yes the decisions went against us yesterday. But my honest opinion is that in real time I thought Richards gave a pen away and Dzeko was not a pen. Offcourse I changed my mind after the replays but people talk like these was blatant easy decisions, they were not.

Having said that Liverpool fully deserve their win and was the better team on the night. They wanted it more and out fought us. Maybe this is why the defeat doesn’t hurt me that much as we simply didn’t deserve to go through. Also people need to stop the rawk behaviour before we develop a similar reputation
 
UUBlue said:
Most Premiership referees are in their mid to late forties, meaning when they grew up (70s and 80s) the top sides were who? Liverpool and United. Which teams will they have supported as kids? Their local sides, or like many other kids, the top sides of the day.

One guy on here claims to have known Walton as a kid, and claims he was a United fan. What's the chance that many of them still have allegiances to their childhood favourites? What chance City featuring as someones favourite? (None).
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Another none issue here. I assume every ref used to like football when they were younger, hence why they decided to make a living in the sport later on. If we gonna say refs cant be professional and do their job as refs and will advantages to the teams they supported. Then what about players? We see so many players play against teams they supported. For example Richards was an Arsenal fan growing up. Now if he has a poor game against Arsenal and his mistake gives them a win, is Richards helping the team he supported or just a professional that made a mistake?
 
salfordblues said:
We've not had it that bad this season particularly in the league.

The one "agenda" I do subscribe to is that Balotelli gets booked where others wouldn't.

But other than that, prior to the incident with Vinny, we weren't complaining about the refs very much.

We need to let it go. When I say we I not only mean the fans but most importantly Mancini himself. This attitude of us against the world will not do us any good.

We need to concentrate on the football and the rest will take care of itself.
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Why shouldn't we discuss it? Let the team concentrate on football, then we can discuss football on a football message board.

I disagree that we weren't talking about the refs before the Vinny incident. Between the league and cup derbies I can think of the Wolves game (Attwell didn't referee for several weeks after), Liverpool away, Chelsea away, Sunderland away where the referee has made decisions against us that are blatantly and obviously wrong. Believe there was one in the West Brom game (disallowed goal) but I haven't seen that. All of these bar Liverpool at home have affected our title campaign.

On the flip side we could argue that Balotelli and Lescott could have been sent off last week (as could of Parker and Van der Vaart).

I don't know why it's happening (I have a few theories) but if you don't think it's worth discussion on here I don't know what is.
 
FUCK the FA
We should call on Hart, Milner, Lescott and Barry to pull out of England team
 
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