bluegoal said:
Top 3 who hate us..
1, Mason Fat, incompetent prick how he is allowed to officiate a football game i will never know...
2, Martin (Fergie time) Atkinson another useless ref. gave 4 mins and played 6mins in the the derby at the swamp...
3, Clattenberg This guy makes his first mistake usually around 5-10 mins into a games then spends the rest of the game making more and more elaborate decisions to make up for his first mistake...
Sorry, but Anthony Taylor, like Mason, just has to be in there cos he's a rag from a whole family of rags, masquerading as an Altrincham "fan" with the FA, so that he is thereby able to take charge of games at the Etihad and the Swamp. Mason has more tangible leanings toward Bolton, but many of his immediate family are Swampites, and it's no less of a disgrace that he is allowed to referee City matches, particularly given the sheer c**tishness of his performances each and every time we get him. I cannot fathom why we aren't hammering on the PL's door to get these two fuckers barred from our matches.
Dowd would be my 3rd choice. A fat petulant bastard, who sticks it to us time and again. His attempts to gift Liverpool the league on that final day at Klanfield last season, verged on criminality, and seem to have been swept under the carpet given that City rendered what he did academic.
I'm a qualified referee myself (although I haven't bothered for about 5 years now), and the idea that they're all biased is paranoid nonsense. The huge, huge majority are fair minded and determined to be impartial, and do a good job by and large. You will get refs who are incompetent, or weak willed under pressure, but only a tiny handful operate to their own agenda, be it intentionally or subliminally. People like Atkinson, Webb or even Twattenburg are unfairly maligned IMO, but based on assessing their performances against City over a period of time, I have my suspicions over Mason, Taylor and Dowd, particularly Mason. I haven't felt as strongly about a referee as him, since that bastard Peter Walton roamed the Earth