Michael Oliver

It’s actually shameful how obvious it is. Multiple direct interventions which aren’t subjective/close calls all in favour of the team whose owners pay him directly.
 
Give us mic’d up refs ffs. Forget the penalty, how did the cnut not see it was a corner?!
It'll never happen in the Premier League because it would show large parts of football officiating is just entertainment based, for exciting narratives and controversy based to give football media like Sky, Talksport, podcasts etc talking points for the week.

It's becoming akin to WWE's tagline; sports-entertainment.
 
Oliver was also the VAR official who recommended a penalty for the Hojlund/Rodri incident at OT this season. A nothing incident which occurs in every box, every game.
I thought it was. Add that to the four games mentioned above…that penalty was the biggest joke of the season.
 
It'll never happen in the Premier League because it would show large parts of football officiating is just entertainment based, for exciting narratives and controversy based to give football media like Sky, Talksport, podcasts etc talking points for the week.

It's becoming akin to WWE's tagline; sports-entertainment.

I don't think it's that deep for most of the refs. It's just them covering for each other's feck ups. What are we going to do? Get the lot of them fired? Apes together, strong.
 
He'll be give the final as well.

He can't do the final. Referees can only ref 1 FA Cup Final and he did the 2018 final. Anthony Taylor did 2 but his 2nd one was the final with no spectators in 2020 to avoid a ref doing their one and only final with no spectators at Wembley.
 
Said all week that he’d protect city today from the big calls. Lo and behold…

Next time he has a city match I’ll say the same, then he’ll do the same

And again after that.

And again after that.

And then people will still wave it off as a conspiracy. Convinced that if some undercover reporters investigated this, he’d come out dirty. Have said it for years
It’s clear, I think. Unbelievable
 
The most plainly corrupt official in British football history. there's no way it wont all come out in the future. At the point that clubs need to reject to his appointment for big city games. This season ALONE:

He's had them 4 times, and in all 4 games, made at least one huge call in their favour.

Oversaw the worst offside goal allowed this season versus fulham
Didnt send off Kovacic when every single other person in the world would vs Arsenal.
Didnt give the stoppage time penalty for Liverpool.
DIdnt give either penalty, or the potential red against city today.

It is IMPOSSIBLE, that in 4 games, you could make at least 5 game changing wrong calls in the favour of the same team. Its statistically impossible.
Oh it isn't about it being statistically impossible. It's that the calls were SO SO SO BAD AND OBVIOUS that there's just no way it could be simple incompetence
 
He can't do the final. Referees can only ref 1 FA Cup Final and he did the 2018 final. Anthony Taylor did 2 but his 2nd one was the final with no spectators in 2020 to avoid a ref doing their one and only final with no spectators at Wembley.
That's interesting, never knew that rule! So we can't get Oliver or Taylor.
 
Thank god we can't have Taylor should we get there. We'd have been subjected to hysterical whinging from the media in the run up. Same media that quite willingly continue to overlook Oliver reffing in the UAE and still being allowed to ref Citys matches and who's also openly a Newcastle fan but can ref games involving League position rivals.
 
There will be more to it than the money he gets from the games he referees in the UAE.
 
It'll never happen in the Premier League because it would show large parts of football officiating is just entertainment based, for exciting narratives and controversy based to give football media like Sky, Talksport, podcasts etc talking points for the week.

It's becoming akin to WWE's tagline; sports-entertainment.
I agree 100%. Been saying this for a long time now.
 
Almost too predictable we would get a VAR handball penalty against us after his antics yesterday.
 
I think he originally gave a corner. Then when VAR intervened, he changed it to a goal kick. Of that is indeed the case, VAR must have told him that it did not make contact with Grealish.

How the hell can someone viewing those replays come to the conclusion that was a goal kick???

It reeks of corruption or incompetence, perhaps both. Stuff like that gives fuel to conspiracy drivel.
 
Almost too predictable we would get a VAR handball penalty against us after his antics yesterday.

VAR is so bad, the difference between that Young penalty and almost all the penalties against us for Chelsea are ours actually had less contact.
 
Going to the Euros along with Taylor and Atwell :lol: :lol: :lol:




Who says incompentency doesn't pay

fecking hell that’s literally the four referees who have the most questionable integrity. The conspiracy theories write themselves
 
This little ABU shit really needs to be investigated. Never books any non United player for dissent. Sends off United players for breathing.
 
How blind is he? Looking straight at some bloke getting his balls shattered but no pen :wenger:
 
Only ref who really, really needs VAR because he never makes proper calls, only some petty shit calls on a whim.
 
It’s obviously not a great picture but it looks like he’s cringing and saying ooh, like you would seeing someone get wellied in the balls (autocorrect on the car is a bigot; changes knac kers to travellers :eek: ) To then not give it is a disgrace. Not his usual brand of leniency/short-sightedness at least since if he gives the decision it benefits City
 
One of the most contemptible people in football. An arrogant prick who thinks of every decision in the context of how he will come across, and throwing it out there once again, that he has been genuinely compromised by City, even if just subconsciously. Nobody can make that many arguable big calls in favour of one team
 
Sheikh Mansor employee Michael Oliver is on VAR for the final

They probably won’t need him anyway. But we all know what’s happening if they do

Wish clubs would fight back on him getting involved with city games. It’s really fecking dodgy
 
Sheikh Mansor employee Michael Oliver is on VAR for the final

They probably won’t need him anyway. But we all know what’s happening if they do

Wish clubs would fight back on him getting involved with city games. It’s really fecking dodgy
What a cnut.