United Thread 2015/16

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gordondaviesmoustache said:
Yeah, but subjectivity enters into that equation. Those were decisions based around different individuals. For a number of weeks, Young's diving became accentuated and a significant number of comical and important penalties were awarded as a result. In any other industry, where information is exchanged between people within that sphere, such a course of events would never have happened, unless it was bent.

united were getting decision after decision which related to a player who had been exposed as a cheat. That extends beyond subjective interpretation, into the realms of the farcical.

GDM - sorry, but you're talking unadulterated bollocks. Young won several penalties which were dubious. Some highly dubious. None were anything that the FA deemed worthy of retrospective action against the ref (and yes, I can hear the retort, the FA are colluding, etc, etc). None were worse than the one we got from Johnson wrapping his foot around the Fulham defender in the snow, to set us on our way to an important victory.

Young was/is an expert at getting decisions in the box. Refs buy it. But they're not bent. They're influenced by the crowd. And much as we might want to malign the followers of that lot, they'll have more influence on decisions through sheer numbers alone. No mafia-style underhand stuff, simple human nature. Rise above it. We get our fair share of decisions. Not lately, but we get them.
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
Suarez was undoubtedly the most preeminent attacking player in the league that year. He was utterly imperious. As such he was always going to get a disproportionate number of penalties. Further, the level he was playing at was such that he didn't 'need' to dive in the area as much as other, more prosaic players.

The number of penalty decisions that were awarded to Young, an otherwise unremarkable attacking player that season, extends beyond the explicable.
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Agree on Suarez. I thought teams were far too open against Liverpool that season, thus affording Sterling, Sturridge and Suarez an inexplicable amount of space to run in to.

Not a pen but this is the type of thing they got away with that season.



The **** goes down like he's been amputated then gets up to join the attack.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
You need to get better to quoting to advance your point, JT, especially if you think I'm talking unadulterated bollocks.
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At? :)

Picking someone up for their quoting ability is akin to moaning about their inability to spell or their grammar - something I have never witnessed you doing.

I normally enjoy JT's musings, and yours GDM.
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
At? :)

Picking someone up for their quoting ability is akin to moaning about their inability to spell or their grammar - something I have never witnessed you doing.

I normally enjoy JT's musings, and yours GDM.
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I'd like to blame autocorrect and I've subsequently corrected my error, but your point remains a fair one, and yes, JT is a poster that I enjoy, respect and like.

And yes I don't routinely point out the deficiencies of others when it comes to posting, but in that instance his entire post had got lost.
 
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