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Is It Simply All Down To The Utter Ineptitude of The Officials On The Pitch And On VAR And There Is No Hint or Sign of Corruption
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Who knows, but there’s certainly enough there to warrant investigation,
Even the fact that cootes was officiating and was into all sorts should set alarm bells ringing, a betting arrangement certainly would seem a plausible explanation for a lot of games decisions and not just including ourselves.
For instance what would happen if all the existing refs were replaced with their european counterparts, no manchester cohort or refs claiming they support the local conference side!!
If the officiating team do their job properly you’d never know any of their names, the fact that all premier league refs are celebs in their own right is about as damning as it gets. Once that level of cash is involved there’s going to be corruption, it’s inevitable!!!!
For the people who voted inept - please point me to the decisions that absolutely screwed city or Liverpool. I mean if it's inept everyone suffers from it right so it must be easy to come up with examples?
The closest you'll get is the victims one at the scum last season where the panicked moron on the VAR replied yes to the ref meaning yes the goal was offside and the ref thought he meant yes you can go and award the goal. Nothing sinister in it just a couple of brain deads unable to communicate with each other properly.
If it's inept how come no other team in the entire league has gotten a player sent off for 2 yellows in 5 seconds, has seen players sent off for delaying the restart, has conceded penalties from a clash of heads? How many other games have you seen Howard Webb sitting in the stands getting involved in a VAR decision? And the list goes on and on and on and on. Tomi at Palace, Side Show at Wolves, Chambers at home to Palace.
So where are the examples of it happening to city or Liverpool?
I'll wait.
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The number of decisions which are given against us and ignored when exactly the same thing happens to another team and the years of evidence we have of it means I can only conclude that they are corrupt. Referees have an agenda against us. They decide on shit in their meetings after other clubs get in their ears complaining and then consciously go out to make decisions against us. I'm certain that they are cheating, corrupt cúnts who favour certain teams for personal gain.
The number of decisions which are given against us and ignored when exactly the same thing happens to another team and the years of evidence we have of it means I can only conclude that they are corrupt. Referees have an agenda against us. They decide on shit in their meetings after other clubs get in their ears complaining and then consciously go out to make decisions against us. I'm certain that they are cheating, corrupt cúnts who favour certain teams for personal gain.
There were 2 decisions last night within 30 seconds of each other that were the EXACT same and a free kick was given to Brighton and not to us. 30 fucking seconds apart and the same referee makes 2 different decisions. Ball kicked away today (and almost every game I watch) and nothing, yet for us it's letter of the law and left with no choice.
If you honestly think we're not refereed differently in this league I'm sorry I just can't help you.
Hard to argue that it's anything but a bias against The Arsenal , The question I ask is why ? What have we ever done to deserve it.
Wenger called most of them out.
It's not just that , certainly it didn't help .
I am in my late 70's and it was always there when I was a kid . My Dad always said it was jealousy because of the 1930's and we were known up north as the Bank of England Club .
We have always been the club that broke the northern dominance at least until the Russian turned up in Fulham and the PGMOL are largely Northern based.
Remember how they came for Graham , he wasn't the only manager taking bungs but he was the one they crucified.
Then there's the whole Henry Norris thing , Henry Norris turned up on the other side of the fence in fact by arguing that the FA and League should change its policy and stop punishing individuals and instead throw match fixing clubs out of the league. He particularly wanted Manchester United and Liverpool thrown out because of their match fixing from 1912/13 onwards. In the end Norris backed down when the league agreed to extend the first division and accept Arsenal into the league.
As I said it's historical.
Definitely. These officials can make all the dubious decisions they want knowing that the worst thing to happen is PGMOL will say 'sorry" and they'll get a weekend off, which they'll use to shoot off to the middle east to pick up their latest Rolex and brown envelope.........
