United thread 2018/19

[dennishasdoneit]

Course it has mate. It's blatantly obvious the refs are being "advised" through the earpiece.

By whom?

 

[manimanc]

Var is not part of premiership football.its not simple. At all.

How do you know it hasn't? How do we know they haven't been doing it since refs have been micced up but in a different form?

 

[urban genie]

You taking the piss?

No,course not
parts of football are suspect.

 

[asahartford1]

What that Young handball incident shows , is that Taylor is as shit as the other premier league referees, products of politics not ability.
If they are chosen by the FA to fastrack they are advised which fa to affiliate to and which team to support.

 

[Blue Hefner]

‘The Scottish Darren Fletcher’. Remarkable

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I know for a 100% fact that one of the Premier league refs is a Liverpool fan and has reffed them 3 times. He's not from there and has a non league team down as his club so is free to do so.

Mike Dean I presume?

 

[asahartford1]

Mike Dean I presume?

He doesn't like man ure. Told me when I played golf with him. Especially fergie

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Why is Taylor from Wythenshaw allowed to ref City or Utd? I thought refs couldn’t ref teams where they live? Blatant pen at 0-2.

We had chapter and verse on this from Mike Riley in 2012 when he did a presentation and Q&A to Points of Blue.

Refs can’t officiate teams who they or close family support or other teams where there’s an obvious conflict of interest in that regard. So a Liverpool supporting ref can’t referee them or Everton in theory. And if Liverpool were challenging us for the title, they shouldn’t be refereeing our games either.

They also can’t referee games involving teams affiliated to the same county FA as themselves. So a Lancashire FA ref like Lee Mason can’t officiate in Blackburn or Preston games. He can’t do Bolton anyway as his brothers are season ticket holders there.

They also try to avoid any other potential conflicts of interest.

So Taylor fails the first test as close family members support United, regardless of who he says he supports. He passes the second in theory as he’s affiliated to the Cheshire FA, even though I think he lives in Greater Manchester and certainly originates from the city of Manchester. So that’s extremely dubious. And he fails the third test as it should be clear to anyone that regardless of his football allegiance and affiliation, he shouldn’t be refereeing City & United games.

Riley said all this and talked specifically about Mason, who’d been withdrawn from one of our games. He used him as an example but them someone pointed out to him that he’d just refereed (and did so very controversially) United v QPR. That season of course Bolton were relegated while QPR stayed up and the question was asked as to how that wasn’t a blatant conflict of interest when you had a Bolton-supporting ref officiate a game involving a relegation rival. Riley couldn’t answer so it had either never occurred to him, in which case he’s thick as two short planks, or he knew exactly what he was doing.

 

[Proy]

or he knew exactly what he was doing.

I'd suggest that is most likely the reason.

 

[Barcon]

He’s possibly the only one who talks sense, they were shit and it was only Newcastle

Still a midget that sounds like a dog toy talking sense.