Why though ? All it needs is the fans to know what is the issue, its quite simple, so let us hear it.
Tonight a penalty, looked clear first time to me, is referred , but not given, and I don't know why its not given.
It need's to be clear to the paying supporter, so it needs to be on the PA in the stadium, rugby and cricket can do this, so why is football trying to hide things ?
Because...Football is Fixed.
Its becoming murkier and murkier.
When Anthony Taylor spoke into his mouthpeice and spoke to 'someone' against chelsea and decided not to send a defender off after fouling sergio..i thought to myself...just who is controlling the games these days?
This was pre -VAR obviously ....
Last night in the pub ,some 2 years later,i made the point i still dont know who makes the ultimate decisions in games..ie who is accountable..their identity.
I asked 3 diff people and they each gave 3 different answers...all looked puzzled and scratched their heads like they had never considered this ultra important point....
Some poster earlier made reference to Jon moss operating VAR..not sure if this was a joke or serious..but the thought of this cheating deceitful character ,with links to the gambling underworld ,having a say on any match involving City makes me shudder.
@BlueHammer85 ..... you make the point that VAR is in its early days,we should wait a few years and all will be fine.im sure you are prepared to put up with any old mis managed system.
I dont agree.What has to happen is that Footballs intrinsic link to the Gambling markets has to be quashed or ,at the very least streamlined in some manner.
Somebody ,in the hierarchy of top class football ,has to investigate the links betwedn refs and betting syndicates. PGMOLshould be an open and accountable body..not an organisation which marks its refs performances ..at the end of each season..,by way of a US company which reveals its findings secretly ,after the Lord Mayors show.
What happened to interviewing the refs after games to hear more about their decision making process for contentious decisions?? I suppose this is now a waste of time as the folk making the decisions are in the background,unidentified ,and escaping any sort of scrutiny by the general public.
Football needs to clean up its act.and fast.
We ,as City fans ,are of course very lucky that ,at present we have a team playing football from another planet.
I imagine there would be more of an outcry,and support for reform of the 'beautiful game' if we were fighting off relegation...
This isnt..or shouldnt be about just our own club though; its about the future of our national game.
When Stoke City were took over by the owner of bet 365 a few years ago,the warning signs were there....but ..not a single word of protest.
That in itself reflected the dumb- down- zombie world of the average football fan.staring corruption in the face,but unable to see it.
Its worrying..to say the least.