United Thread - 2023/24

[burning blue soul]

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.

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.

 

[halfcenturyup]

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.

Had a quick read of Law 11 just to make sure:

Casemiro was in an offside position when Rashford played the ball but he wasn't committing a defined offside offence. When the ball was actually played to him he wasn't in an offside position.

Stupid to me, as this was exactly what offside was brought in to prevent, but the correct decision under 11, imo.

 

[BrianW]

'Manchester' United, the WWF team.

 

[The blue phantom]

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.

The point is though I didn't have a problem with those Two decisions as imo they were correct.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

'Manchester' United, the WWF team.

Pandas running round in midfield?

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

I believe the ref was a certain Mr Attwell. Where have I heard that name before?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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.

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.

 

[halfcenturyup]

The point is though I didn't have a problem with those Two decisions as imo they were correct.

That's a fair opinion to have. No problem, although I disagree.

 

[burning blue soul]

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.

Occams razor. On this opinion board that is the metric that must be satisfied.
And I am satisfied it is satisfied :)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Occams razor. On this opinion board that is the metric that must be satisfied.
And I am satisfied it is satisfied :)

Fair play. It’d be dull with nothing to debate, although some topics get done to death. :-)