Rival watch

Meanwhile, Jon `Manchester` Moss gifts Man Utd another penalty after Bruno Fernandes fouls an Aston Villa defender. Standing on your opponent, before going down like being shot is a foul these days apparently.

 

Fernandes studs the defender in the ankle and gets a penalty! Bent as ****.

 

And a push in the back isn't

 

It isn't subtle is it.

 

How corrupt is football?

Mark my words: once United have guaranteed CL place and we are out of the running for anything, we will be awarded a soft penalty and Man Utd will have a rough decision go against them.
Just like 'pool conceded a penalty after they were champions*

 

Aint it just, no chance Pool would have had that penalty awarded against them if there was still a title race.

It is the authorities and the media`s wet dream to have Pool and United in the CL every year, clubs with the largest followings generate the most £££££.

 

I don't hold with the corruption theory, although there us inevitably bias towards bigger sides, that is just human nature. Now that technology is better I wonder if there is a way of disguising the identity of the players in the shots the VaR team sees?

 

There is technology in DLSR cameras that can turn pictures into just outlines without colour or features, but I don’t know if it available for moving images. No disguising Luiz or Guendouzi though!

 

I didn't until VAR. Now I can't possibly see how it can be anything else.
There are no crowds at the games, virtually unlimited replays in slow motion from a ton of angles and they're still getting it wrong. How?

Nobody watched that Fernandes dive yesterday and thought that should have been a penalty.
We're expected to believe that not only Graham Scott, a referee with over 20 years of experience, did so but that his assistant agreed.
There's two of them doing VAR duty for each match. How can they possibly **** that up so consistently?
https://www.premierleague.com/news/1701472

Oumar Niasse was charged with "successfully deceiving a match official" in 2017 and banned for two matches.
This won't be happening to Bruno Fernandes and I doubt it'll happen to Ward-Prowse, either.

 

It's corruption or massive incompetence. On balance I believe (and hope) it is the latter, but they are making it hard to believe that.

 

The Calciopoli scandal in Italy had certain teams selecting favourable referees.

Jon Moss has refereed Man Utd three times since the restart.
Michael Oliver has been involved in two of our last three games and refs our match on Sunday.
There are 17 Select Group referees and a bunch of extras for VAR.

 

European Draws made and wouldn't you just know it United get virtually a bye into the semi finals

 

Istanbul Basaksehir or FC Copenhagen!
Wolves get Sevilla or Roma. Close...

 

Someone in the Phillipines did.

Regards Niasse. That was before VAR. Interesting that in those days , they would look back at decisions and decide that if a player successfully deceived the ref then they could get banned. Where is that rule today? and what if you ''successfully'' deceive two match officials ( on pitch and at Stockley )?

 

Not corrupt ?

 

But as is the trouble with all conspiracy theories, who is doing the bribery and how are they clever enough to not be found out?

 

Man Utd and it's investigated by the people taking the bribes.
"Today the FA announced that they'd completed the investigation of the FA and found that the FA had done nothing wrong. Thank you."

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When you write "bigger clubs" you mean richer owner clubs of course!!!?

 

....and Dier jumps into the crowd to give a fan an autograph and gets banned! "Daft,I call it.....!"

 

Except in Italy they were found out. One day hopefully it will be discovered here but that will only be small consolation because it won't help the team I love and all of our suffering over the years.