Michael Oliver

he's actually getting worse, :eek:

but at least he booked Rashford for bouncing the ball
 
Dixon saying it’s good refereeing to give no foul for a yellow card challenge despite no advantage because it’s in the spirit of the game.
 
Ultimately he's not really impacted the result so far, but he is so bad. So many clear yellow cards to city players he's not given.

That's Pep's football for you. Fouling hard and diving at first touch. He did it at both Barca and Bayern. You only see the real him when your team has to play in the same league with his team.
 
He’s only second to Trump on my list of people I’d like to punch square in the face.
 
Said every disgruntled (subjective) fan of every losing team ever
To be fair, even in other games that he officiates that I watch as a neutral fan, I'm blown away by how inept he is. He lacks everything that makes a top level referee. Spineless cnut.
 
So, one dive is a yellow and another is not. This is why refs are hated, not because of being wrong but because they are not equally wrong.
 
nice job to book the diving twat
And where was the booking for Jesus in the first half? If he didn’t give a peno for that it was clearly a dive then no?

I agree Herrera deserved to be booked, but there’s no consistency
 
Jesus and Sane diving all match and nothing, and Herrera gets a yellow when there was some (though minimal contact)?

Every game he refs for us we struggle with decisions. He has this complex with us for some reason. Not that it matters much in this game, because we're poor, but he's a terrible non-partisan ref.
 
Cnut.
The double standards are crazy.
Even if we put aside the fact that it was a potential penalty as Otamendy was late. Giving Herrera a yellow when city’s players dived at least 2 times in the first half without a yellow shows his double standards.
 
1 goal and I think 3 subs. Ederson was down for a bit. Anything more would've been very generous.
He demonstratively pointed to his watch to say that he was noticing their time-wasting in the 73rd minute. So for that, plus the standard subs, plus injuries, to add up to one minute on top of the usual three is weird.
 
Don’t understand how he can book Herrera for simulation but not Jesus.
 
Romelu Lukaku-class on that cnt today.

He is so occupied showing "poise" that he gives fck all if the decision is right.
 
I feared the worst when I heard he was reffing this game. Clearly has a thing for us and looking at our results with him reffing sure makes that idea plausible.
 
fecking useless inconsistent shit twat, if this wasn't football he'd be out of a job after the piss poor decisions he's made this season.