Referee

[Chingo]

There’s no shame in the big club bias anymore , they can’t seem to wait to give them decisions

 

[WeareBlades]

There’s no shame in the big club bias anymore , they can’t seem to wait to give them decisions

Disgrace today, the amount of times Osula and Traore got pushed in the back then Traore does it to one of them, whistle straight in mouth.

 

[Champagneblade]

He actually gave us fuck all the Aussie twat.

It got to the point where I started writing then down:

1. Traore plays ball off their defender for a corner. Goal kick given.
2. Blatant push on Souza not given.
3. Another push on perhaps Baldock(?) On the right in the attacking third not given.
4. Couldn't wait to give the pen. Don't know anyone who can slide and not have there arm a little out.
5. Shove on Traore outside our box not given.
6. Booking given against Osula when it could have been his foul.

Now you might argue some of these but you'd struggle to find anything to counterbalance this as there wasn't a single potential foul for them that wasn't given.

 

[Hull Blade]

The cheers that went up when he gave us a free kick, were the loudest of the day and said it all....Even Carl mentioned the B word................biased.

 

[Shakespeare blade]

Jack Grealish is impossible to tackle, ref gave absolutely everything to him ,couldn’t wait to blow every time we came within 5 ft of him. Might as well just stand there until he passes the ball, some of the play acting today was criminal, the one where mcburnie had just came on cringeworthy, everything I hate about this level

 

[RetfordBlade96]

The little shoves and pushes City are allowed to get away with are insane, its a key part of their style of play as well allows them to strangle teams for the ball all the time can't believe refs are blind to it

 

[S40BLADE]

The amount of knee and elbow dark arts from city today (Specifically Dias and Gvardiol) was insane. Not a SINGLE one was ever spotted.

 

[A Storm of Blades]

The little shoves and pushes City are allowed to get away with are insane, its a key part of their style of play as well allows them to strangle teams for the ball all the time can't believe refs are blind to it

They aren’t blind to it in the slightest. Top level football is in love with money. Therefore the riches teams get the most favourable treatment, conscious or otherwise. When starry eyed referees see mega famous £100m Grealish go down, screaming for a free kick (fouled by someone they haven’t heard of) they are inclined to give it 99% of the time. It’s textbook unconscious bias (the unconscious bit being very generous)

 

[Willglynning]

Utterly shocking refereeing today. But what was even more annoying was the perennial twat that is Andy Hinchcliffe going in with ridiculously over the top praise of every decision that went city’s way.

 

[blade too long]

Counted 20 fouls he didn't give us

 

[RetfordBlade96]

Seen it described on twitter that Egan got a yellow for "scaring" Grealish

 

[1973Blade]

Disgrace of a ref, sure he will have got the Man City players autographs that he was clearly craving for.

 

[RetfordBlade96]

Watch the game on now TAA should have by letter of law been off do you think for one second Baldock or Larouci would have got benefit of the doubt like he has done just now. It gets you down!

 

[Frank the tank]

Bet jarrad loves a holiday in the uae

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

Yeah, that makes me laugh. You slide in naturally with your arms up slightly. You don’t slide in with your arms by your side as if your in a fucking toboggan.

 

[niktheblade]

I watched the game in a random bar on holiday... so with benefit of replays.

There was a bit of a pile on in our box where haaland cried for a pen, replays show he ragged egans shirt so much the he pulled Egan onto him and ref gave nothing, it was clear as anything and yet, ref waves play on. If he'd have scored, would they have even bothered checking it?

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

Utterly shocking refereeing today. But what was even more annoying was the perennial twat that is Andy Hinchcliffe going in with ridiculously over the top praise of every decision that went city’s way.

All I wish on that prick Hinchcliffe is triple bout of laryngitis, whooping cough and the shits.

 

[jt64]

Worst I've seen in quite some time

 

[FinBlade]

Games should be decided by the teams/players, but it is what it is

 

[JimW1889]

Can't help but feel the league is stacked against teams like us when you see refereeing performances like that. City should be, and probably are, good enough to win without every decision going their way. The Osula one sums it up, fuck knows what he's seen, there's no chance Haaland gets booked unless the referee is certain he's seen something, however when it's Sheffield United and Osula he'll give it based on the reaction, no need to be certain.

Penalty he couldn't wait to give, no pushes against us given, couldn't wait to give the Traore one. Haaland moaning all game never gets booked, can't wait to book Egan. Grealish gets away with a shove in the first half that would've been given against him 999 times out of 1000.

 

[bakeblade]

He actually gave us fuck all the Aussie twat.

It got to the point where I started writing then down:

1. Traore plays ball off their defender for a corner. Goal kick given.
2. Blatant push on Souza not given.
3. Another push on perhaps Baldock(?) On the right in the attacking third not given.
4. Couldn't wait to give the pen. Don't know anyone who can slide and not have there arm a little out.
5. Shove on Traore outside our box not given.
6. Booking given against Osula when it could have been his foul.

Now you might argue some of these but you'd struggle to find anything to counterbalance this as there wasn't a single potential foul for them that wasn't given.

2 fouls given against them in 97 minutes of football says it all, and 1 of them was against Wes.

 

[Old Programme seller]

Yeah, that makes me laugh. You slide in naturally with your arms up slightly. You don’t slide in with your arms by your side as if your in a fucking toboggan.

Probably me misconstrued as a two footed tackle

 

[184blade]

It’s rapidly becoming the case that newly promoted teams have as much chance of winning as that team that play against the Harlem Globetrotters. And as for the tv pundits, they’ve become part of the premier league cozy club, they won’t want to upset the powers that be by calling out bad ref decisions on tonight’s match of the day.

 

[Aston max]

Trouble is these days there's to many of the current referees who want to be as famous as the players , my lads both did the referees course and Keith Hackett took one of the lessons, best advice he gave them was "the best referee's in the world are anonymous if they haven't been noticed they've run a good game"

 

[ForgeBlade]

Utter, utter disgrace. After Mike Dean admitted to cheating the other day, how can we trust any of them to be even close to impartial?

That twat today was so bent it's not even funny anymore. Osula getting booked for getting fouled was just laughable. Ref might as well have had a blue shirt on, the prick.

 

[Blade56]

Straight out of the Mike Dean school of refereeing

 

[Weasel]

Why was Bash booked as well? Grealish did a headlong dive into him, fell down (as usual) and the ref booked Bash. Fuck me sideways. If anyone should have been booked it was slippery Jack for play acting. Thing is JG doesn't need to do it as he is a top top player. He does it cos he knows he can con weak as shit refs. 4 yellows for us today. None for City. As usual.

 

[Bladesman]

Osula got booked for being fouled.

There are no words.

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

It’s hard enough playing city but having a bent referee at the helm almost makes it impossible to compete.

 

[Bladesman]

It’s hard enough playing city but having a bent referee at the helm almost makes it impossible to compete.

No shame in it. Mike Dean brazenly admitting to the sort of corruption we have all suspected over the years.