Lots of fans are sensible enough to know that the refs are not against them, but they are also not stupid enough to believe they don't favour the red top clubs.Every club’s fans think the officiating is against them. We won the treble and yet still had thousands of pages of bile about refereeing.
No, I'm still waiting for someone to show me under the LOTG, why Casemiro wasn't penalised for offside. Or for anyone to show me anything official that helps to explain different phases of play. Was everything from the initial free kick to the goal being scored one single phase of play? I think it was.
Yes, we all would have, and we would have been ranting and raging on here at the injustice if we didn't get them. That's all perfectly normal. But that isn't the point.
'Manchester' United, the WWF team.
These are reasonable opinions to have, but that is all they are. They aren’t facts, however much they can be dressed up to be.Lots of fans are sensible enough to know that the refs are not against them, but they are also not stupid enough to believe they don't favour the red top clubs.
Refs are happy to write off chances for cannon fodder teams and act on decisions for utd, Liverpool, or Arsenal.
Because there is something pigmol factor into their decisions, and that is trial by media. Go with decisions for those 3 clubs and there ain't no fallout in the press.
The point is though I didn't have a problem with those Two decisions as imo they were correct.
Occams razor. On this opinion board that is the metric that must be satisfied.These are reasonable opinions to have, but that is all they are. They aren’t facts, however much they can be dressed up to be.
Streaky 3-2 wins for the rags against Forest are the reason that they get humbled in Europe and get nowhere in the league. They think they‘re back and have turned the corner, whilst not actually being back.
Fair play. It’d be dull with nothing to debate, although some topics get done to death. :-)Occams razor. On this opinion board that is the metric that must be satisfied.
And I am satisfied it is satisfied :)
No they don't!!!! ;)Fair play. It’d be dull with nothing to debate, although some topics get done to death. :-)
Every club’s fans think the officiating is against them. We won the treble and yet still had thousands of pages of bile about refereeing.
Given the amount of times the Silva’s, Sane, KDB, Sterling, mahrez, aguero and even Yaya slalomed into the box, it is quite a feat that the most offensive attacking team of the last decade , with by far the highest number of goals scored , doesn’t have a considerable amount more penalties (or even opposition red cards) given in our favour.But we’ve never been given a penalty like that at old Trafford. As has been mentioned on another thread we’ve had 3 pens in 50 years against the Rags.
1 in league cup semi at OT (2010)
1 in League at OT (91)
1 in league at Etihad (06)
They had 2 last season alone so why is there such a disparity? We are talking decisions which are easily not given & yet they get them. We have introduced “subjective” when we discuss them but it’s bias.
Bias : inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group.
Subjective : based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
Regarding the red card,which the rat exaggerated and threw himself to the ground for......why did he receive such when he wasn't the last man? is it the interpretation that it was a clear goal scoring opportunity?
ifs buts and maybes. They are miles behind usEven if they could quite easily scrape 6 points of us with a little bit of "help" at the (in)appropriate moments? That still doesn't bother you? What if we lose the title afterwards by 5 points? Still not bothered?
Given the amount of times the Silva’s, Sane, KDB, Sterling, mahrez, aguero and even Yaya slalomed into the box, it is quite a feat that the most offensive attacking team of the last decade , with by far the highest number of goals scored , doesn’t have a considerable amount more penalties (or even opposition red cards) given in our favour.
Iirc we generally have the higher number of penalties across a season than most other teams - which I’d expect given how the team plays/how most of the opposition plays. What, iirc, doesn’t follow (you would have thought logically) is the number of penalties against red shirts- united being the big one, but I remember feeling astonishment that we got one against Liverpool (mahrez miss), and similar with Arsenal.
The lack of penalties given against the red shirts, given how we play , is down to far more than unlucky chance/‘better opposition’, it has been a noticeable feature for over a decade of us being the best attacking team that there is biased refereeing (unless we’re 3/4 nil up - as mentioned elsewhere the same thing happens with red shirt opposition against any club regarding carded players, the match stats are ‘even’, but the red shirts ones generally mount up when the game is already won for them)
That's not good enough I'm afraid. I read the LOTG, interpret this as offside under the laws, and I need something to explain to me why it wasn't offside. Maybe Gallagher or Dean will shed light on the matter at some point.You’ve highlighted the laws and asked which bit applied. None do.
That type of goal gets scored countless times each week.
It isn’t offside, however much you think it might be.
He’s hailed as some revolutionary for buying Onana to try and play out from the back by signing a keeper who likes the ball at his feet. City have been doing this since 2016, Liverpool have been doing it for some time as well. Nothing has changed and they haven’t taken a step forward this summer, they will get killed when they have to play every few days when the champions league group stages happen.
That’s fair enough. It doesn’t matter as you aren’t a referee. You’re not likely to get any explanation any time soon as law 11 states how a player is offside.That's not good enough I'm afraid. I read the LOTG, interpret this as offside under the laws, and I need something to explain to me why it wasn't offside. Maybe Gallagher or Dean will shed light on the matter at some point.