The "pork" reference relates to our neighbours across the city, whom we call "Pigs."
They use the same derogatory term for us. Bit weird, but it is what it is.
It's likely you're being accused of being a Wednesday in disguise as you seem to have become quite a contrarian on the forum. I really enjoyed your contributions when talking about Leicester's recruitment, but you do seem to be getting sucked into some petty squabbles on here now.
On the VAR argument, we've had the most goals disallowed by VAR in the league (7/8ish) & have only had one major decision go our way. We've also been robbed by hawkeye & had a referee tackle one of our players for a goal at Man City. We genuinely have been on the end of some absolute stinkers this season.
Do I believe there's an institutional conspiracy? No. Do I believe individual officiators in the game are more scared of the high profile clubs & therefore have some sort of unconscious bias towards them. Yes, probably.
I'd like to believe that my praise/agreement on certain topics has been at least equal to if not more so, the criticism/disagreements i've had.
It's possible to believe that Wilder and the club have done a terrific job, laying the foundations for a potentially very successful period for the club, but still be of the opinion that the decision and precedent set in the proceedings with West Ham are not something I believe in, but back to the main topic.....
With regards to VAR and 'Top club bias' in general, it is just an extension of the argument that the larger clubs in the country get more favorable decisions from institutions who are supposed be no neutral.....And based on what i've seen with my own eyes over the past few years of being in the Premier League, i've not witnessed it.
The worst refereeing performance i've seen involving ourselves and a larger club was our first game back at this level against Manchester United. Clattenburg may as well have been wearing a blue shirt in our 5-3 win over them, his decision for both our penalties and the red card for Blackett were very very questionable. The problem is that football fans, of all clubs, create a siege mentality with their own bias which makes the decisions that clearly go against them, as well as the ones which are more debatable/subjective, almost the same.
It's easy for me to sit here and claim we were robbed of a chance of 2 more points last night because we should have been awarded a penalty for an obvious handball the last kick of the game, or we should have had a point at Anfield if not for a dodgy penalty given right at the end of the game.....But it's far more difficult for me to recall a subjective incident which went in our favor.
Football fans would rather win 'unfairly', than lose 'fairly'.....There's an argument that many Sheffield United fans would love to win 1-0 at 'The pigs', with a 98th minute dodgy penalty, after being dominated for the 90+4 minutes of actual added time given, instead of a comfortable and deserved 2-0.
I think the 'Big club bias' which the media shows is a much more valid argument.....But also a different one.
I believe clubs like Manchester United/Liverpool generate a much larger amount of global TV revenue than Sheffield United/Leicester, but, all 4 of those clubs earn equal revenue.
There's an argument there that the 'smaller clubs' benefit more financially than they should....
But once again that argument is never put forward by the either of our clubs because it is not beneficial to themselves.
