Coming late to this but it is amazing the gaslighting perpetrated by most of the media on behalf of the Rags.
Even Rebecca Lowe on NBCSN, who I generally like as a presenter/pundit, described the Fernandes penalty (as they were showing a replay that showed he was falling and dragging his leg before Krul *barely* touched his foot) described the incident as “stonewall”. Had it been Raheem the debate would have been “was he being dishonest” and “not all contact in the box should be a penalty”.
Then the NBCSN and Sky commentators were acting as if the disallowed goal for a various tenuous handball rule interpretation was obviously correct. Had it been against us they would have been going on about how harsh the decision was and why the rule really needs to be clarified to stop farcical decisions like that.
And then they even tried (for the 100th time) to indirectly blame City for the new ridiculous handball rule by again saying it was brought in because of our complaints about the Boly goal.
Which is absolute bollocks, as there was no need to change the handball rule to stop those invalid goals, as just having properly administrated VAR with the old handball rule would see those sort correctly ruled out.
The campaign to get them back in the “top echelon” is well and truly in full flow, both on and off the pitch.