Pep and City just as they are celebrating lifting the trophy Klopp emerges from the tunnel and challenges them to a cage match.
With special guest referee Graeme Souness....
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Pep and City just as they are celebrating lifting the trophy Klopp emerges from the tunnel and challenges them to a cage match.
With special guest referee Graeme Souness....
Pogba clatters souness with a fold up chair……
Nobody's willing to say it openly because it makes you the target of endless ridicule, but let's face it: the officials are human too, and not only is it human to err, it's also human to be biased and unfair. There's corruption and dishonesty in all walks of life, from law enforcement to politics to the business world. Why would refs be any different? Why would they be uniquely impartial and honest?
There's a reason refs can't officiate international games of their own country, or the games of clubs that they're known to like. It's because anyone with any sense knows that they have the capacity to be biased.
And there's one club that half of England views with spittle-spewing hatred because of decades of dominance and numerous high-profile rivalries. I have no doubt whatsoever that the ABU "movement" includes some number of referees. It would be an incredible statistical anomaly if it didn't. Of course they don't announce it, because that'd be career suicide; but it's irrational to think that they don't have clubs they like or dislike, and that can sway their decisions, whether consciously or not.
There's a reason refs can't officiate international games of their own country, or the games of clubs that they're known to like. It's because anyone with any sense knows that they have the capacity to be biased.
And there's one club that half of England views with spittle-spewing hatred because of decades of dominance and numerous high-profile rivalries. I have no doubt whatsoever that the ABU "movement" includes some number of referees. It would be an incredible statistical anomaly if it didn't. Of course they don't announce it, because that'd be career suicide; but it's irrational to think that they don't have clubs they like or dislike, and that can sway their decisions, whether consciously or not.
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Yup agreed with this. Almost like what they do in Tennis.
I just listened to this cos I really didn't believe you, oh my god it's true! Football referees are a disgrace.
Add Florentino Perez to the growing chorus of people expressing dissatisfaction with how VAR operates. People have always complained about individual VAR decisions but it feels like this season has opened the gates for a wider questioning of the operational structures of VAR.
I really have no reason to lie. Danny Simpson was just as shocked with it.if you listened to it all did you hear the bit about miss California changing once Ronaldo showed up
these podcasts show most teams are just like a better version pub team with very similar attitudes.it’s for another thread but I listened to Chadwicks one with them too, on about the standards at United and then when he went to Burnley I think it was they were all drinking on the bus after the match and it was more relaxed. I think this is what is meant when United mentality is talked about. That commitment to be the utmost professional and to be the best.
if you have chance listen to the one with Si ferry about di Canio, di Canio sounds bonkers, I was in stitches.
The Ronaldo story was great.
if you listened to it all did you hear the bit about miss California changing once Ronaldo showed up
it’s for another thread but I listened to Chadwicks one with them too, on about the standards at United and then when he went to Burnley I think it was they were all drinking on the bus after the match and it was more relaxed. I think this is what is meant when United mentality is talked about. That commitment to be the utmost professional and to be the best.
if you have chance listen to the one with Si ferry about di Canio, di Canio sounds bonkers, I was in stitches.
It's interesting how quick he moved to Leicester and how he got dropped so quickly.
I am literally about to board a 10 hour flight so I'll download, thanks for the recommendations.
All he has to do is pay for the referees reports.
You know, like that other club has been doing for the last 20 years, that way you'll know exactly what the referees will and won't punish. But just make sure you will definitely not be paying them to make sure you get favorable decisions.
They have one with Lee sharpe too, worth a listen.The Ronaldo story was great.
It's interesting how quick he moved to Leicester and how he got dropped so quickly.
I am literally about to board a 10 hour flight so I'll download, thanks for the recommendations.
The funny thing about VAR is the people who asked for it (players, managers, and fans) are now the same people who are calling for its axe. Referees never wanted VAR.
That was the correct use of VAR. They played on and let the attacking phase finish giving Liverpool the benefit of the doubt and then reviewed it afterwards.
All the salt from McManaman about there being 7 passes before the goal is disingenuous, the attacking phase was allowed to continue and if it was decided it wasn’t handball they would have been beneficiaries of that.
Another game, another...
Any replay of the maguire pen? Commentary thought it was a pen
Any video of the stamp on Garnacho? Should have been a red given the logic of Rashford’s red, no?
Interestintly it was not shown at all, so probably a penalty
Not a red on both cases
It took less than one half of football to see an exact same situation as Rashford got sent off for. Said at the time people get their boots stamped on all the time. Rashford got sent off because the opponent had his foot 10cm closer.
A VAR check for a penalty and not even a replay shown? Hmm...
You just know it will be at least as much as a penalty as the one City got against us.
I have no confidence VAR will give us anything, we just had our VAR quota for the next 15 games in the last game
Clear foul in the box on Eze, not given.
He got a yellow and they didn't even overturn it
Yellow for a dive?He got a yellow and they didn't even overturn it
Yes
feck VAR. I didn't celebrate the goal because I'm so scarred by it. If Hojlund doesn't actively jump away I'm sure they would overturn it.
They tried their best to disallow that.
What was that check for?
A United goal.
Pathetic.
8 min for what?
Was there a big stoppage? Actually can't remember much at all apart from the var check on the goal
First half 2 minutes with United on top chasing a goal.
Second half 8 minutes with United ahead and Luton chasing a goal.
Basically identical halves
They aren't even being subtle anymore with their corruption
Second half 8 minutes with United ahead and Luton chasing a goal.
Basically identical halves
They aren't even being subtle anymore with their corruption
There were a good few subs and Hojlund wasted a bit of time when he was on the deck but don't know if it makes 8.
Wheres giflord when you need him for the 2 pen checks. Would bet money they are both more a pen than the rodri one against us
Kabore could have been sent off twice today.
Stamped on Garnacho's foot, then mullered Rashford in an aerial challenge where there was no intent to win the ball.
Stamped on Garnacho's foot, then mullered Rashford in an aerial challenge where there was no intent to win the ball.
Probably shouting at a woman and laughing about it with his Aryan brotherhood
He’s currently at the Cenotaph.
usually they show the the checks on TV for the VAR checks, but felt like nothing was shown today. I didn’t watch the other games, but is this a new thing? Or just this game