Sky Sports Bias or what?

SER19

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We're 40 minutes post match now and I haven't seen

A) the offside lines for a marginal call
B) any discussion at all about a simply disgusting, cowardly nunez challenge that gets worse every time you see it
C) a single replay of our handball shout.

Also no reflection at all on a mental yellow for maguire, or the hysterical Robertson Diallo incident

Im not talking about pro Liverpool or anti United bias - I genuinely don't know how this is possible. Didn't they do something similar earlier in the season too?

It does show just how influential the media can be, if nunez' violence is under a spotlight he wouldn't get away with that challenge.
 
To be fair, that's a lot more interesting things to talk about then any of that stuff.

The Nunez one is the only contentious one for me, everything else...meh
 
Not gonna lie, up until about 5 minutes ago, they'd hardly gone in on Trent either. Maybe some of those are coming... but a Sky bias to Liverpool isn't overly surprising, it's been known for years.
 
I don't know why we never got to see the handball incident. They were busy showing replays of De Ligt's yellow from the subsequent counter, and they never came back to it.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
To be fair, that's a lot more interesting things to talk about then any of that stuff.

The Nunez one is the only contentious one for me, everything else...meh
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You saw the handball shout for us? If you have a clip please share
 
The media has a huge influence. Even now the Onana challenge against Wolves gets brought up which was the first game of last season. There needs to be a re-balance of coverage for United but that only happens by winning and the manager calling stuff out against referees and banning journalists.
 
Josep Dowling said:
The media has a huge influence. Even now the Onana challenge against Wolves gets brought to which is as the first game of last season. There needs to be a re-balance of coverage for United but that only happens by winning and the manager calling stuff out against referees and banning journalists.
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This is the one that stands out to me. Thought it was going to come up at PMQs. That west ham penalty was brushed away
 
The Purley King said:
He should be running up to the ref asking for a var check.
Do the “tv” thing with his hands. To not check that is scandalous.
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I thought so. I was just waiting for the stoppage

I also can't ever remember a big goal like that that we didn't see the lines. Not saying it was off but it was borderline and unusual to not see them
 
TV channels are narrative driven. The narrative for years with us was that we get all the decisions

Decisions against us don’t play into that narrative. Decisions that go in our favour, do.

It’s why people like managers coming out and shouting about decisions going the wrong way, because it changes the media narrative, and indirectly influences referees.

We’re also suffering from becoming a bit of a meme in the last few years, so your complaints aren’t taken as seriously. That Maguire tackle reeked of that today.

It’s only when you’re playing a team like Liverpool and the other teams are supporting us, that the complaints get amplified a bit.
 
What’s annoying me is they haven’t really talked about Amorims post-match interview.

All about Trent and his contract, then Sturridge talking loads of nonsense.
 
Never mind all this stuff, we just put a superb performance, scoring 2 goals at Anfield.

Most, including me feared an all timer battering. But we got it spot on today.
Can we now take this into other games, or even play this same midfield in back to back games?
 
SER19 said:
Thought so. No mention at all on sky.

Anybody in doubt go look at a replay, disgusting challenge
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Agree. How they can look at that and decide it's not red is crazy, but I guess it's Anfield so anything goes
 
Woodzy said:
What’s annoying me is they haven’t really talked about Amorims post-match interview.

All about Trent and his contract, then Sturridge talking loads of nonsense.
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Amorim's post-match talk was quality
 
They're far too interested in arguing about whether TAA should be sold or not.

It's been about 10 mins now... Who gives a feck

The only interesting bit was then Carra stopped Sturridge and told him to answer the question and that what he just said was a load of waffle.
 
This is ridiclous now. its like a documentary about Trent Alexander Arnold now. Awful punditry, awful viewing
 
Zen said:
Not gonna lie, up until about 5 minutes ago, they'd hardly gone in on Trent either. Maybe some of those are coming... but a Sky bias to Liverpool isn't overly surprising, it's been known for years.
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Not sure which studio you guys had but we had Owen and Scholes in studio and they absolutely slaughtered Trent. Which was a little funny because earlier in the day they played a montage of his passes and were waxing lyrical about how important he is to pool (in the buildup anyway).
 
I'm not sure about any of that but it was quite funny when Carragher told Sturridge to answer his question properly cause "that was a load of waffle".
 
Annihilate Now! said:
I mean yeah, that looks like an absolute nothing incident.

I don't think anyone on here would think that's a pen if it was in our box
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I think we're at a point that if that happened in our box we would absolutely expect a penalty to be given against us. This is the problem.

But By the same application of the rules by the same officials today, that's a penalty. Arm in an unnatural position, flicks it's right away from hojlund. Either neither are, or both are
 
Nunez challenge went uncommented on. If that was martinez on salah, its uproar. A terrible challenge
 
Sandikan said:
Never mind all this stuff, we just put a superb performance, scoring 2 goals at Anfield.

Most, including me feared an all timer battering. But we got it spot on today.
Can we now take this into other games, or even play this same midfield in back to back games?
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Yes it'd be nice to see us not turn to absolute cack in the next match for a change.
 
SER19 said:
I think we're at a point that if that happened in our box we would absolutely expect a penalty to be given against us. This is the problem.

But By the same application of the rules by the same officials today, that's a penalty. Arm in an unnatural position, flicks it's right away from hojlund. Either neither are, or both are
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I think it touches Hojlund's arm
 
DarkLord1984 said:
Yes it'd be nice to see us not turn to absolute cack in the next match for a change.
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Hopefully Arsenal rotate a bit and we can get a decent result there.
Southampton needs to be a good win though - properly take us well out of the bottom echelon points reach and show we can beat a team who will sit back deeply
 
You only have to look at the main Sky Sports page with the headline ‘Man United hold Liverpool’ accompanied by a picture of Martinez with his arm around Salah.
It implies that United fouled their way to a draw, when the reality is that Liverpool got more from the refereeing team and Liverpool were the lucky ones to get a point.
Sky will always be pro Liverpool when they employ so many ex-Liverpool players and Kenny Dalgliesh’s daughter
 
SER19 said:
I disagree. Maguire reaction looking right at it is very telling. The point is we didn't even get a replay of it.
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Hojlund's lack of reaction says just as much (very little)

Sky love pool but that's just a nothing moment. De Ligt one was a pretty stonewall penalty unfortunately
 
OverratedOpinion said:
Hojlund's lack of reaction says just as much (very little)

Sky love pool but that's just a nothing moment. De Ligt one was a pretty stonewall penalty unfortunately
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Not really, a player that close to ball could easily have his eyes closed or simply not see it if hes looking at the goal. Again you're slightly missing the point - if you think de ligts is a penalty, fine. But then explain romero last season. Joelinton yesterday. Whatever happens next weekend. Officiating is at rock bottom and today alone there was about 3 farcical decision. Not just wrong but scandalously wrong
 
SER19 said:
Not really, a player that close to ball could easily have his eyes closed or simply not see it if hes looking at the goal. Again you're slightly missing the point - if you think de ligts is a penalty, fine. But then explain romero last season. Joelinton yesterday. Whatever happens next weekend. Officiating is at rock bottom and today alone there was about 3 farcical decision. Not just wrong but scandalously wrong
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If Joelinton handled the ball yesterday like De Ligt did today and a penalty wasn't given then it sounds like there was an officiating mistake in the Newcastle game.

Michael Oliver is a rubbish ref, I thought he got a couple of things wrong today. The Maguire booking was an awful decision.

I reckon both the De Ligt one and Hojlund were right though.
 
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