Ciley Myrus
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Scotland "suffered" the same fate as England, our team of three had one pull out and Fifa would not allow a replacement so that was that.
Absolutely. A few here all worse than Kompany's and all targeting the man not the ball.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ma...news/man-city-bad-tackles-fouled-14216141.amp
It was the Cardiff match and serious injury to Sane that had City writing officially to Mike Riley to complain (then having Mr Taylor give a red to Delph in the cup v Wigan - you know the one where he was going with yellow till someone told him to make it red).
It did get better after that until this one in the derby.
Not even given as a foul and that was why, according to Keith Hackett, no English refs went to the world cup.
Until Southampton targeted Fernandinho last week, it's been better this season apart from the routine late challenges on David Silva and despite MOTD pundits encouraging opposition players to "leave something on" City players.
I did say don't get distracted.Yes, that should have been a red card. But your quoting of Hackett's nonsense post is equally nonsense. Let me ask it this way, who could have gone to the World Cup? We had three Elite level FIFA referees when the decision was made. Atkinson and Marriner were too old to be nominated as they would have lost the FIFA badge before the tournament, and Clattenburg quit. Only Elite referees can go as referees, so there is just no way that Ashley Young not being sent off had anything to do with there being no English referees at the World Cup. We were never going to have anyone there as a VAR as we don't use it yet so our referees are much less inexperienced than those from the likes of Italy in that respect.
As an aside, I watched a couple of Man City games in the official Man City Costa Brava Supporters Club pub over Christmas. The level of paranoia really was astonishing, with people constantly saying during the Palace and Leicester games that the referees have been told to give decisions against City as the FA want Liverpool to win the league. Clearly it was nothing to do with the fact that they can't defend to save their lives if they don't have Fernandinho in the team ...
Two or three mistakes sounds like a misfortune, double figures sounds like carelessness.As a lifelong blue, I completely disagree that there's any agenda. Indeed, all top teams believe there's agendas against them which is absolute nonsense.
There was a sequence of games around this time last year (alluded to above) where 2 or 3 tackles on city players which should've resulted in reds to the opposition team were missed or yellows issued. It was remarkable that there were 3 mistakes (reds not issued) in such a short space of time but that's what they were, mistakes or errors of judgement. No agenda at all.
Well, risking the wrath of fair-minded referees everywhere, Clattenburg's leniency to Wayne Rooney is the obvious precedent for tolerating offensive language and VC.Interesting comments from Mark Clattenburg, not so much about the tackle, but, passing comment that had he heard Kompany call Salah "a p@@@@", then he would have taken no action, "not in the heat of battle and in such a high stake game"
I dont quite understand if that means in a different game he would take action?
And more to the point, it crosses over into whats acceptable, or not, to be called in the game, in the heat of the moment, it might easy have been any number of other words with the same meaning as *****.....which am taking a guess would also have resulted in no action...which although understandable, is, dissappointing
It certainly doesn't help when the chief exec of the competition starts the season by saying he hopes your team faces a stiffer challenge...
Chief Exec of the competition wanting his competition to be competitive. Fancy that, how dare he not want it to be a one sided walkover …
On the City forums I point out the difficulty of referees' decisions, e.g. to those arguing that flying in with both feet off the ground isn't specifically mentioned in law 12, I'll quote Mike Riley: "The message is that if you commit to a tackle that is at speed and with intensity, typically with both feet off the ground, then you put yourself at risk of being sent off."I think you’d be better off joining a Man City forum rather than a refereeing one. Challenges like this get missed all the time, referees are only human. The fact that you think this just happens to City and there’s an agenda against them is just annoying
I did say don't get distracted.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. It certainly doesn't help when the chief exec of the competition starts the season by saying he hopes your team faces a stiffer challenge...
And saying it's good for the PL brand if Manchester United do well? "When your most popular club isn’t doing as well, that costs you interest and audience in some places"
So you'd have no problem if before a world cup the head of FIFA said he thought it would be good if a South American team did well....
So you'd have no problem if before a world cup the head of FIFA said he thought it would be good if a South American team did well....
Or a boxing promoter said he didn't want either fighter winning by a large margin.
@bloovee , consider yourself lucky. A bunch of unthinkably rich individuals bought an distasteful average club and now your masses of fans (who subsequently emerged from the Moss Side woodwork) rarely have to experience defeat (the weekly staple diet for the rest of us). There might be individual circumstances in specific games when officials make mistakes due to intense pressure, but to infer that there could be a sustained agenda against any team by multiple referees, is utterly ridiculous
You need to remember what it's like to get humped most weeks, if you indeed supported the team during that era
@bloovee , consider yourself lucky. A bunch of unthinkably rich individuals bought an distasteful average club and now your masses of fans (who subsequently emerged from the Moss Side woodwork) rarely have to experience defeat (the weekly staple diet for the rest of us). There might be individual circumstances in specific games when officials make mistakes due to intense pressure, but to infer that there could be a sustained agenda against any team by multiple referees, is utterly ridiculous
You need to remember what it's like to get humped most weeks, if you indeed supported the team during that era