This season 2011-2012

[Tokyo Blue]

The positives to take out of this are that if the rags win the title it may paper over the cracks as they are shite and need about 4 players. We will buy big and have knowledge from this season to focus on. We will win the title next season!

Clearly they are not shite

Not while they have got webb, atkinson and dowd in the team..

Do you think the number one reason behind United winning the league is biased officiating in their favour?

Yes.

[ashton287]

For some reason also, it meant more to teams to beat us than it did to beat them, as we saw with Arsenal's pathetic celebrations of failing to compete all season but beating us.

This has been a huge factor aswell. Fucking baffles me. Memorable corresponding fixtures for me being.

Spurs (H)
Bolton (A)
Swansea (A)
QPR (A)
Fulham (A)
Arsenal (A)

These all stand out as teams that have bent over for them and treated us like a cup final. We didn't lose them all or anything but they are perfect examples of teams that for some reason seem to hate everything city stand for, hate our players, hate the fans, hate the sheikh and probably hate the colour sky blue.

[RodneyRodney]

I dont disagree, but is that the main reason they are likely to win the league this season? Are the fortunate decisions they've received regulally a bigger reason than the fact that they have a built better team than we have with lesser players?

They have had about 14 points from referees this season. We have lost about 15.

There are 2 ways of looking at it. 1) The refs are so poor that they have just made so many mistakes. 2) the shit was fixed from the start.

Whichever way you see it the refs have had a bigger say in the title this season than most teams in the league.

Edit: Just to piss myself off about this even more I went and worked out that they have had 12.3% of the penalties awarded this season.

14 points ? I'd say it was more like twenty. They've been spoon-fed 4 points in the last two games alone. On top of that we've been robbed of around 6-8 easily. Despite our loss of form, Mancini's poor man-managment, Tevez' stomping off and Mad Mario - we would still be ahead of them by a big margin - probably enough to have won it by now - if we had fair and consistent referees. THAT is the single reason for their lead at the moment.

The whole thing is f* LOADED against us. There IS an ELITE CABAL who do not want us to win.
THEY are NOT going to WIN the Premier League this season , because they are not good enough and because they are not the best team in the competition. IF they are awarded it , it will be because it has been presented to them on a f* plate by BENT refereeing and to any red I meet , I will paraphrase Cloughie - "You might as well chuck it in the f* bin , because you haven't f* WON IT !"