United disadvantaged due to bias!

[Dzeko's Right Boot]

Bias through Sir's intimidation? Yes.

Agenda? Pass me the vodka, gonna need a strong one to get me through this thread…

 

[BigJoe#1]

There's a reason Peter Walton is no longer a Premiership referee and is off in the USA from next season, his extremely questionable decision making has clearly been recognised by a far wider audience than just City fans and his usefulness to the cause had run it's course. Best to get him out of the way so as not to risk the matter getting too much attention, not to worry though, someone else will step forward and take on the mantle of United's chief decision giver.

It was rather strange was it not? The fact that he moved during a season, normally contracts and agreements are made on a season by season basis for officials....

So why did he leave?

Very strange indeed!! (though equally as welcome a move as it was strange).

 

[JM Mcr]

Fact number one - The Premier League has a product it needs to market.

Fact number two - The rags have an enormous Asian and far eastern fan base

Fact number three - The Premier League need the rags to be competing for the title so it's easier to market their product

Conclusion - The PL will do everything possible to keep the rags competitive, hence dubious refereeing decisions

Not this again...

Once you'd won the title I'd hoped this agenda nonsense would be put to bed.

Seems not, Utd obviously benefited from some poor decisions - as did City - (and without rehashing every decision over again I don't know what effect they had on the overall points tally for each team) but poor decisions don't make an agenda...

Face it, some officials make mistakes because they're not good enough. Others err because they're intimated by the crowd (although surely not something that can be levelled against us at Old Trafford) or subconsciously affected by the media etc. It may even be that the modern game is now just too quick for the traditional method of officiating, with 1 referee and 2 assistants, but to suggest a Premier League driven conspiracy is, IMO, ridiculous. Look at some of the decisions in Euro 2012 at the moment.

It appears shite refereeing is at least europe, if not world, wide. So is it all one huge agenda or a series of localised agendas???

 

[fatbloke]

Despite us winning the league this season anyone who cannnot see what happened after the 1-6 is naive in the extreme. While I agree refereeing standards are very poor and this accounts for some very poor decisions, the sheer volume and hilarity (in hindsight) of those decisions make it impossible for anyone not to be sceptical.

You only have to look back to Italy where yet another group have been arrested for match fixing, if you think England and it's officials are 100% clean and there's not the slightest doubt of any possibility in your mind you're very trusting and very naive.

 

[bluemoondays]

Didn't someone post the number of yellow cards/fouls given against us prior to the 1-6 and after it.

It was something stupid like 6 yellows before and 24 afterwards in the same amount of games. We didn't change our style of play or our players (apart from normal rotation) - definitely looked fishy.

 

[SWP's back]

Fact number one - The Premier League has a product it needs to market.

Fact number two - The rags have an enormous Asian and far eastern fan base

Fact number three - The Premier League need the rags to be competing for the title so it's easier to market their product

Conclusion - The PL will do everything possible to keep the rags competitive, hence dubious refereeing decisions

Not this again...

Once you'd won the title I'd hoped this agenda nonsense would be put to bed.

Seems not, Utd obviously benefited from some poor decisions - as did City - (and without rehashing every decision over again I don't know what effect they had on the overall points tally for each team) but poor decisions don't make an agenda...

Face it, some officials make mistakes because they're not good enough. Others err because they're intimated by the crowd (although surely not something that can be levelled against us at Old Trafford) or subconsciously affected by the media etc. It may even be that the modern game is now just too quick for the traditional method of officiating, with 1 referee and 2 assistants, but to suggest a Premier League driven conspiracy is, IMO, ridiculous. Look at some of the decisions in Euro 2012 at the moment.

It appears shite refereeing is at least europe, if not world, wide. So is it all one huge agenda or a series of localised agendas???

When it's shite in favour of Utd nearly every week then that would likely show some sort of bias be it fear of Ferguson or something else.

 

[samharris]

"There is certainly no bias given towards the Scum whatsoever" said Howard Webb during a family photo album shoot.

 

[Heart.net]

Fact number one - The Premier League has a product it needs to market.

Fact number two - The rags have an enormous Asian and far eastern fan base

Fact number three - The Premier League need the rags to be competing for the title so it's easier to market their product

Conclusion - The PL will do everything possible to keep the rags competitive, hence dubious refereeing decisions

Not this again...

Once you'd won the title I'd hoped this agenda nonsense would be put to bed.

Seems not, Utd obviously benefited from some poor decisions - as did City - (and without rehashing every decision over again I don't know what effect they had on the overall points tally for each team) but poor decisions don't make an agenda...

Face it, some officials make mistakes because they're not good enough. Others err because they're intimated by the crowd (although surely not something that can be levelled against us at Old Trafford) or subconsciously affected by the media etc. It may even be that the modern game is now just too quick for the traditional method of officiating, with 1 referee and 2 assistants, but to suggest a Premier League driven conspiracy is, IMO, ridiculous. Look at some of the decisions in Euro 2012 at the moment.

It appears shite refereeing is at least europe, if not world, wide. So is it all one huge agenda or a series of localised agendas???

i'm sorry but winning the title does not absolve my feeling that there is something sketchy behind the scenes with the FA, United and the media. Call me a fool, but United should not have been anywhere close to us leading up to the final game.

 

[Unknown_Genius]

Not this again...

Once you'd won the title I'd hoped this agenda nonsense would be put to bed.

Seems not, Utd obviously benefited from some poor decisions - as did City - (and without rehashing every decision over again I don't know what effect they had on the overall points tally for each team) but poor decisions don't make an agenda...

Face it, some officials make mistakes because they're not good enough. Others err because they're intimated by the crowd (although surely not something that can be levelled against us at Old Trafford) or subconsciously affected by the media etc. It may even be that the modern game is now just too quick for the traditional method of officiating, with 1 referee and 2 assistants, but to suggest a Premier League driven conspiracy is, IMO, ridiculous. Look at some of the decisions in Euro 2012 at the moment.

It appears shite refereeing is at least europe, if not world, wide. So is it all one huge agenda or a series of localised agendas???

i'm sorry but winning the title does not absolve my feeling that there is something sketchy behind the scenes with the FA, United and the media. Call me a fool, but United should not have been anywhere close to us leading up to the final game.

If we didn't have that retarded period around December-January, and early February it wouldn't have come down to the last day. We should never have lost away to Swansea too. Yes, United do much more often than not, get the decisions. I would say thats more down to Ferguson's intimidation of officials, plus having over 70,000 fans at OT on the referee's back. The whole suggestion thats some kind of massive conspiracy where the Premier League makes sure United win the title every season, otherwise some idiots in Thailand will start crying and support Barcelona instead, is absolute nonsense.

 

[waspish]

I'm glad it came down to the last day :)