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The parallels in that article with what we've been witnessing this season is uncanny. Two points stick out for me :

1. The paragraph which refers to... communicating in an "exclusive" manner with the referee designators of Serie A, attempting to influence results by picking certain referees he considered more favourable to Juventus or more likely to rule in favour of the Old Lady on a dubious call."

2. Followed by... It was further alleged that throughout the season, top players of rival clubs were shown a calculated number of yellow cards in a bid to ensure their suspension when the teams faced the record Italian champions."

How many players have we had booked for innocuous reasons in recent games? Sterling is the obvious one for me but I'm sure there are others.
 
jitsubluedan said:
The parallels in that article with what we've been witnessing this season is uncanny. Two points stick out for me :

1. The paragraph which refers to... communicating in an "exclusive" manner with the referee designators of Serie A, attempting to influence results by picking certain referees he considered more favourable to Juventus or more likely to rule in favour of the Old Lady on a dubious call."

2. Followed by... It was further alleged that throughout the season, top players of rival clubs were shown a calculated number of yellow cards in a bid to ensure their suspension when the teams faced the record Italian champions."

How many players have we had booked for innocuous reasons in recent games? Sterling is the obvious one for me but I'm sure there are others.

the-ecstacy-of-eight said:
Just have a quick read of this mate (if you haven't already)....

https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/calciopoli-2006-match-fixing-scandal-juventus-relegated

...swap the Italian name MOGGI for, errrrr, lets randomly pick a Scottish one, say FERGUSON (for example) and tell me honestly that you don't see any parallels between there and here.

Go on, I dare you ;)
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I think their only hope for CL football is winning the Europa league. They have by far the worst fixture list IMO.
12 league fixtures left. That includes: City, Arsenal and Tottenham away. They also have Everton and Chelsea at home.

And when you consider how many points they drop at home against poor teams. It's very difficult to see how they can finish in the top 4. That's gotta hurt after signing the likes of Pogba, Mkhi and Zlatan.
 
jaigurugoat said:
It's 1-1 with 25 minutes to go against a team that hasn't won for two months and is down to 10 men. Realising they can't penetrate a defence made up of players that have played in the lower divisions most of their careers, they bring a big bog brush in place of their record goalscorer and start playing long balls into the box. Playing football the United way!
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Beautiful post.
 
If you needed any proof of what an arrogant horrible prick Ibrahimovic is, then watch this video.
Nice little head stamp from him in there too.

 
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93Aguero20 said:
Cmon mate, don't get me wrong, Ibra is a twat but Mings is a bellend who stamps on his head. Mings is the coward. Ibra reacts how you'd expect him too. (Should still be a ban)
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Mings being a bellend does not excuse Mememememe deliberately elbowing him. The big-nosed Swedish twat could have caused serious injury to Mings.
 
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