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Not really. The ref was having a shite game so because he was not 100% doesn't give it and because he gave the red card earlier it would even things out. He may have done if he was having a different game. IMO.
Does this mean that Man City are about to go on a 13-game losing run?
Which'll be handy, 'cos we go there in a couple weeks!
I get the point you're making, but it's NEVER as black and white as that.
Had ALL the decisions we've had for and against us been reversed over the last few years, I wonder where in the league we'd be??
Having said that, im still looking forward to the day the Mendes 'Goal' at OT evens itself up in our favour... it's coming up for 12 years in the making that one... it'll be a corker.... or just a corner!
.... oh no hang on, 'cos NOW they've got Goal line technology... so it can NEVER happen again.
they've actually shut the door on the notion that things even themselves up.
They don't... they just keep on getting worse on a fucking L️
....and it was Cuntenberg reffing!
That was the moment any notion of swings OR roundabouts died for me!
This one is old as f*** but still pisses me off. But we were never getting that one at old trafford. Shows just how much those officials took the brown envelope from the powers that be.
Things might even out if you are a Sky team, but for the rest of us its total shite.
Something meaningless uttered to placate people is all that statement is.
So we got one decision go our way, it was about time really though.
Just wait for the next game where the ref will try to 'even' that up against us.
Something meaningless uttered to placate people is all that statement is.
So we got one decision go our way, it was about time really though.
Just wait for the next game where the ref will try to 'even' that up against us.
The poor quality of English reffing is why I advocate more technology in the game. I'm so glad that goal line tech has removed that ref's ability to influence the game.
How the fuck did JJ & The Crap Neville come to the conclusion that it wasn't a red????
"Two footed, studs up BUT...."
Jeeeeezus wept!!!
French league suspends goal line technology after cup errors
Interesting turn of events, with the birth of VAR having just happened.
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Interesting turn of events, with the birth of VAR having just happened.
Just as an example, here are some howler decisions that have gone our way in big matches in recent memory:
Raheem Sterling's 'handball' when we won 2-1 at city in 2016
Not having anyone sent off during the battle of Stamford Bridge
Kyle Walker avoiding a penalty and red card when pushing down Sterling in the 2-2 draw at the Etihad in 2017
Both penalties at Anfield this year (admit it, they were soft).
Not to mention the fact that over the years I've seen Vertonghen get away with some extraordinary shithousery that is almost never punished and usually works to our favor.
Must say, there are so often moments when I see him do something and think, that's it, he's off now, or at least will get a booking and nothing happens.
I think it's his clean cut look that works in his favour there :vertna:
Yep I was suckered in by that bloody match too. Decades of stress later...
Just kidding, wouldn't swap Spurs for anyone.
I agree. There have been so many poor decisions against us, but every fan says the same. Except maybe Fergie era Man U fans.
A recent example- we finished above Liverpool last year exactly because of a penalty decision that we saw as fair, yet the Scousers still cry into their 10am pints in the council estate flat-roof-pub about it.